The Party

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Here are but a few of the party-goers from Saturday! :) Check out Greg, Paul and Rashpal's photo pages.

Meow / "It does mean changing the bulb"

Just over a day to go before I fly out. Java saw us pulling the case from the loft - and was not happy at the sight. We think that she'd realised something was going on about two weeks ago when she started changing her night routine to sleep on parent's bed instead of my own. It's so sad that I can't explain to the poor little girl why I'm off. :( I'm sure she'll be fine... she'll be too busy keeping parents out of trouble :)

Dad and I replaced the old florescent lighting in the kitchen with new holders and bulbs. They look rather good (given that they are just florescent fittings and not of the trendy ilk). Other than that, we remained at panic stations for most of Sunday. Today will probably be the same :0

The Famous List (Report #1)

Now that I have left the Beeb, seeing famous people becomes exciting! Today I passed by Germaine Greer whilst crossing South Africa Road in West London (admitedly right in front of the BBC White City Building :P).

I also saw someone who was practically Robert Llewellyn (of Red Dwarf/Scrapheap Challenge fame)... but wasn't. This chap has confused me in the past by walking around looking like said R.L. so I have learnt not to fall for his web of deceit!

And now it's time to sleep.

Goodbye Woodlands / Yesterday's Eeep

Fairwell
Met up with Gemma & Andrew today for lunch and was lucky enough to gain entry into Woodlands for a final Curry Thursday. T'was a grand lunch :)
Hair has been chopped (Hairdresser: "Blimey! Your hair's so coarse & thick!" :/ ) and some curfuffles have been remedied. Bumped into Andrew N-S in the coffeeshoppe and said goodbye to him too.

Arg!
Sod's law was upheld yesterday. A girl I rather liked (who just began working in Starbucks (Ux)) started to flirt with me with less than a week before I fly off! Arrrg*! :(


*obviously, as happens every time when it comes to such things, me being me, I was far too dumb/shy to make the first move when we first started politely chatting a few weeks back :/

Boxes, boxes and bills

Slowly boxing things up for the loft, mild panic continues as I keep reminding myself just what I've got myself into.

Went to Ian & Bex's house for tea, DVDs, cards and other such games and asked lots of awkward questions about Australia. Hope I know just what I need to do! :0 Tried out the Beeb's new ERadio service on DCable (VirginMedia): Very good, but I discovered a teeny palette issue that is only noticable when the brightness is turned up to 11. Emailed Farah, who probably now hates me! :P

Bills etc being transferred, adjusted etc. Took car to Honda for its first service - the cheeky blighters at Honda charged me ten squids for the "Free Courtesy Car" grrr. Other than that, all ok. Was given a black manual Jazz as the courtesy car which caused much confuzzlement, as my Jazz is an auto. No stalling thank goodness! :D

Dave popped by to return the fold-up bed that was borrowed. Pushed my "Essential Linux Administration" book onto him (I reckon he's gonna need it in his new job! :) ) then inflicted a game of cards ("sh*thead") on him.

My phone is now PAYG. Orange have really gone downhill... their computers weren't working when I called their offshore callcentre. They've even changed their automated voice girl from a rather schexy posh woman to someone ("Ruth") who sounds dizzy and ineffectual. See my rant on The Register's comments section: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/orange_voice/comments/

Promise to try to be a bit more coherent from now on in this blog. This prolly won't be made of complete and correct sentences until I've settled down a bit whilst out there.

Lots of love,


Greg

Days away

Afternoon all,

Post First this is yes. Mild panic as I attempt to get everything in order. Mild panic as I think I've lost my chequebook. Mild panic as I attempt to reassure the girl on the phone that I will still be a UK Citizen whilst away and that no, she shouldn't shut down my account. Then there was tea, so it all calmed down somewhat :) Now it is pub time.