Winter kills.

[reddragdiva]

WE HAVE HEAT. AND WATER. OH MY GOD. I think I lost two kilos just in grease when I had a shower last night. Workmen came and fitted a new flue and replastered.

Friday: date with eyeliner297. I desperately needed to go out and party with the g*ths, so told Abi to come out with me. I'd forgotten what fun it is taking a young girlie out and showing her a gentlemanly good time. We went to the Dev, then to Bar Monsta for Devilish Presley, then back to the Dev until chucking-out. Devilish Presley were fantastic and Bar Monsta is so hot, sweaty and smoky it makes the Dev seem cool, clean and lovely. I took lots of photos on the Ixus i, which was a mervellous device except when it completely failed to get focus. Apparently I have to take Abi out regularly.

Saturday: date with redcountess, seeing Motorhead again at Brixton Academy. They didn't have the Bomber rig or the ex-members guesting. First band was a German Swedish all-female band called Crucified Barbarella, who played twiddly muso shite. Second was Clutch, a somewhat bluesy-hardcore band from the US, who were actually really good. And had a good old hardcore punk fat guitarist. Motorhead were pretty damn fine as well. Liz thinks she saw Brian May sitting two rows ahead of us.

Sunday: date with gothgeekgirl, visiting from the US again, to go shopping in Camden. She is on medication that upsets her stomach, which hampered our day a bit, but the catchup was marvellous.

Monday: date with arkady. We haven't gone out to dinner in ages, so we went to Chez Gérard in Covent Garden. She had veal (the only meat she's been able to keep down in the evenings for a while) and I had beef bourgignon. The waitress giggled when she saw my name on my card. Came home to gothgeekgirl visiting Liz. HAD A SHOWER. Here's to plumbing.

Tonight: date with Ikea. I start on clearing space for the stuff Liz, Arkady and secretlondon bought two weeks ago.

So how was your weekend?

Comments

[redcountess]

They didn't actually replaster, you can see the external wall (and the hole will need some sort of filler to keep the wind out, as there's a gap). And Crucified Barbara are actually Swedish, as I noted on my post :-)

[reddragdiva]

ah ok! I'll see what I can come up with for the gap ... not paper (oddly enough).

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look at it and see what it needs.

(Hmm. I'm going to need a DIY icon at this rate...)

[reddragdiva]

Indeed!

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

A word to the wise - leave a lot longer than you anticipate between plastering it and turning the boiler back on again - any moisture still in the plaster will cause it to crack as it warms up :-)

Might be a project for the warmer weather...