I bin buying stuff
Saturday, June 16th, 2007 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI made the trip to the West End and back without getting too rained on. There have been some quite torrential downpours over the past 24 -48 hours, but periodic. London has by and large missed the fun that has rained down on the rest of the country. So apart from a mild dampening as I exited Leicester Square tube, my biggest worry was melting in the sticky heat, having elected to wear my antiaunt leather jacket (the Lufthansa pilot jacket, not my shiny Time Lord U-Boat Commander's jacket; it's far too warm for that).
Having picked up a couple of comics and magazines, I dropped into Fopp on Shaftesbury Avenue and spent a cheery time wandering around looking at the goodies for sale. £26 bought me the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed and On The Threshold of a Dream, classics from 1967 and 1969 respectively. In addition, I acquired the Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, also from 1967 and Caravan's eponymous debut album from 1968. That lot amounted a mighty £23. I blew a further £3 on the collector's edition of National Lampoon's Animal House on DVD. For all you West Wing fans out there, an opportunity to see what Vice President John Hoynes did in his college days (I'd forgotten that!).
This minor fiscal transgression was brought to you by Bryan's credit card and the fact that I had earlier had an enjoyable conversation (for once) with Barclaycard. This because they had sent me a letter demanding immediate payment of £0.00 and warning me that failure to do so may have repercussions for my credit rating.
Hmm.
Ah well, once the last proper bill arrives from them, I shall pay them the £3.64 or so I owe them and then close the card down. That'll larn 'em!
Having picked up a couple of comics and magazines, I dropped into Fopp on Shaftesbury Avenue and spent a cheery time wandering around looking at the goodies for sale. £26 bought me the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed and On The Threshold of a Dream, classics from 1967 and 1969 respectively. In addition, I acquired the Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, also from 1967 and Caravan's eponymous debut album from 1968. That lot amounted a mighty £23. I blew a further £3 on the collector's edition of National Lampoon's Animal House on DVD. For all you West Wing fans out there, an opportunity to see what Vice President John Hoynes did in his college days (I'd forgotten that!).
This minor fiscal transgression was brought to you by Bryan's credit card and the fact that I had earlier had an enjoyable conversation (for once) with Barclaycard. This because they had sent me a letter demanding immediate payment of £0.00 and warning me that failure to do so may have repercussions for my credit rating.
Hmm.
Ah well, once the last proper bill arrives from them, I shall pay them the £3.64 or so I owe them and then close the card down. That'll larn 'em!