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caddymanThe trip into the West End started a little later than intended, given our inability to get moving this morning.
The sales were disappointing, though I managed to pick up a box set of The Prisoner on DVD for £19.98 and a copy of the BBC's recent adaptation of Bleak House - not in the sale but for once reasonably priced. Elle picked up a copy of Plunkett & Macleane for a fiver in FOPP, so it wasn't an entire waste. A quick pint in the Round Table was followed by a trip to Pizza Hut for something suitably lardy before she hits her Weight Watchers diet and I start looking askance at fruit and stuff as part of the "healthier (but boring) lifestyle" that we are supposed to be leading in 2007. Maybe I can hold out until Chinese New Year and make a resolution of it then...?
I faded for a couple of hours this evening, crashing out on the bed. Happily I recovered long enough for us to watch Bad Day At Black Rock and a further episode of BSG. Ah, good stuff. My aged and temperamental DVD player seemed not to want to play the former to begin with, so I had to gull it into thinking I was going to watch something else and then quickly switch the DVDs over. Hah! It will be a long time before I am out-thought by a crotchety DVD player.
I have decided that in terms of clothing and temperature tolerance, Londoners are by and large, complete wimps. The number of people wandering around wrapped up against non-existent Arctic temperatures today was astounding. I was wearing my leather jacket and a tee shirt and generally felt rather warm at that. I certainly haven't felt the need to insert the winter liner as yet. It got a bit chillier after the sun went down, but not intolerably so. If this be Winter, I am looking to emigrate somewhere habitably cool for the Summer. If I can spend early January in a tee shirt and jacket, God alone knows what July and August will be like.
The sales were disappointing, though I managed to pick up a box set of The Prisoner on DVD for £19.98 and a copy of the BBC's recent adaptation of Bleak House - not in the sale but for once reasonably priced. Elle picked up a copy of Plunkett & Macleane for a fiver in FOPP, so it wasn't an entire waste. A quick pint in the Round Table was followed by a trip to Pizza Hut for something suitably lardy before she hits her Weight Watchers diet and I start looking askance at fruit and stuff as part of the "healthier (but boring) lifestyle" that we are supposed to be leading in 2007. Maybe I can hold out until Chinese New Year and make a resolution of it then...?
I faded for a couple of hours this evening, crashing out on the bed. Happily I recovered long enough for us to watch Bad Day At Black Rock and a further episode of BSG. Ah, good stuff. My aged and temperamental DVD player seemed not to want to play the former to begin with, so I had to gull it into thinking I was going to watch something else and then quickly switch the DVDs over. Hah! It will be a long time before I am out-thought by a crotchety DVD player.
I have decided that in terms of clothing and temperature tolerance, Londoners are by and large, complete wimps. The number of people wandering around wrapped up against non-existent Arctic temperatures today was astounding. I was wearing my leather jacket and a tee shirt and generally felt rather warm at that. I certainly haven't felt the need to insert the winter liner as yet. It got a bit chillier after the sun went down, but not intolerably so. If this be Winter, I am looking to emigrate somewhere habitably cool for the Summer. If I can spend early January in a tee shirt and jacket, God alone knows what July and August will be like.
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Date: 2007-01-05 07:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-05 03:21 pm (UTC)I know from personal experience of a business venture entered into by friends of mine that killed itself off through just such practices.
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Date: 2007-01-05 03:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-05 04:08 pm (UTC)I cannot understand the mindset of a company that charges different prices depending on whether the customer shops in their store or their website.