New hello, wave goodbye.

[reddragdiva]

It's a lovely sunny Sunday and I'm sitting in my front room having a brain in neutral day and waiting for the band of tension around my skull to loosen. I am playing Nouvelle Vague, who I was put onto by duranorak and whose albums I bought from eMusic. arkady will want to kill me with an axe very soon, but I'll play them until then. The Cramps do nicely with a bossa nova beat and "Marian" should be hammered up Eldritch's nose.

We are tearing out our remaining hair wondering how the hell to fit our stuff around the owner's. The owner is tearing out his remaining hair wondering what to do with his furniture that we can't possibly fit in here. To do: repack boxes so more stuff fits in less. Put my stuff in the foldaway wardrobe. Package stuff we don't need on hand to shove in the loft. (Obtain stepladder.) Put stuff into shelves even if they're presently in the wrong room. Stack or at least move furniture in the dining room before Tuesday so the Sky engineer can actually run the cable from the dish to the front room. Hit Homebase with the 20% off voucher BT gave us for having been fuckheads and spend a fortune. Hit Ikea and do the same (without the discount).

This week: Monday is Neil Gaiman. Tuesday is sweh and syringavulgaris' BOFH drinks. Wednesday is d_floorlandmine's curry. Thursday is Terry Pratchett. Friday is incy for dinner then Dreadnought. Saturday is yaruar and kirsten2's wedding. Sunday is gibber in a small heap, I suspect. I also suspect some of these will fall off the list along the way.

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[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

What does it mean that Monday is Neil Gaiman?

[reddragdiva]

Blackwell present: An Evening with Neil Gaiman

Monday 25th of September, 7pm
Logan Hall
Institue of Education
20 Bedford Way
WC1H 0AL

Tickets cost £7, £5 concessions, and are available from our dedicated booking line 0845 456 9876 (Mon-Fri, 9.30 - 6.00), or in-store at Blackwell, 100 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0JG (as soon as we get them in).

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I've never been to Dreadnought. I'm possibly tempted..

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

I adore Nouvelle Vague. ;-)

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

See you on Wednesday and Saturday, then-if you're not all unbelievably sick of me by now! [grin]

[gths.livejournal.com]

Hang on, is that the one with the, umm, ditzy version of "Too Drunk To Fuck"? That came on last.fm when I was listening to the recommendations thing and I was all, oh OK...

[rosefox]

the_xtina introduced me to Nouvelle Vague, and j'adore. I must make a mental note to download their stuff from eMusic.

[nictoupee.livejournal.com]

Gaiman? *envy!*

[ashbet]

That cover amuses the hell out of me ;>

reddragdiva, I'm glad to hear that you guys are settling in -- hope the landlord can get some of the extra furniture out of your way soon!!

**hugs**

-- A :D

[redcountess]

It was an event put on by Blackwell (a small chain of bookstores here in the UK) and the Observer (the Sunday version of The Guardian newspaper). We went to one last year where he did a reading from "Anansi Boys" and was interviewed by Lenny Henry, which was a lot of fun, especially as they're good friends, with a Q&A and signing afterwards. This time it was just NG, reading out a couple of pieces from "Fragile Things", with a Q&A (incorporating a FAQ to streamline things) and a signing. He comes across as incredibly down to earth and endearing.