'they're all very unpleasant people'

[bethia_cathrain]

For the second time in my life I have witnessed a grown man playing air-guitar in public.

The first occasion occurred in 1995 during a Brian May concert in the Bristol Colston Hall, when my then thirty-six-year-old uncle spent most of the set standing up (it was a fully-seated venue), right hand picking distinctly arhythmical rhythms upon an

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[mrpyro]

For the second time in my life I have witnessed a grown man playing air-guitar in public.

Thus proving that you have never seen me drunk :).

I once had a future groom sleeping on my bedroom floor after getting in from his stag night; the snoring was akin to somebody attempting to chainsaw down a large forest. I was too tired to actually get up and kick him (and I also suspect that I may have broken my foot doing so). Is it bad form to smother the best man with a pillow?

[bethia_cathrain]

But drunkenness is also an expected context. It was not so much the obvious state as the location - a dim and beery bar, thoroughly unfashionable, suddenly filled with celebrations of current events (tho' Wales, ahem, lost, of course :))

In answer to the second question I think yes, it is bad form. I'll have to wait till at least friday, after the wedding.

Hope all well with you both.

[boobook]

Good luck with the flying - it seems to get batter with practise. I no longer need to cut off the circulation to the arm of the nearest person (stranger or not) in order to survive take-off. Landing is still a bit traumatic!

I would suggest laxatives or something else sure to keep the snoring one awake but I think that that outcome would be worse... Can you fill the bed with sharp and prickly things, making it uncomfortable enough to allow you to get to sleep before he does? If the worst comes to the worst, you can always sleep on the beach ;)

Have fun!

[tryfanstone]

Oh, damn, I am so sorry I missed this, purely for the entertainment value - although I suspect perhaps not quite so amusing when present

[bethia_cathrain]

Thank you dear. I hadn't thought of a boat hook. Perhaps a nice smiling hotel staff-member could also be bribed to rig said boat-hook inot some sort of winching system, whereby with each snore he was hoisted a little further towards the ceiling.

I agree with you about the serenity, and abdication of responsibility for your own fate - I'm just terrible at this in general! But there is greater calmness today. I chose the 'Exotic Lingo' line in the end, to my shame, bought some sunglasses and walked on the Meadows with Donnie, who tried to cheer me up by hugging several trees down the central walkway. I have to finish a proposal for another paper, then choose some of those aforementioned books - ending the afternoon on a pleasant note, I hope.

Here's to all calmness and serenity in onward travel as well, for both of us. Take care.

[tryfanstone]

Very quickly and with the utmost presumption - I do hope all has gone well and you are safely home and reasonably rested - I am asking for a friend. Any idea at all what the Latin for 'Bite me?' is? Medieval Latin? Sorry to bother you. More anon.

[bethia_cathrain]

I fear I cannot help! The closest I can recall (attributed to David Hume, no less, would be
'stercus accidit' - sh*t happens.

I'm tactfully not asking /why/ such a debate has arisen :)

All well otherwise - home yesterday, newly in love with changeable grey skies instead of endless blue, and no lizards in the shower. Hope all well!

[_________mirror]

i sang in our primary school choir at the colston hall. combined school concert , old-fashioned songs..

[bethia_cathrain]

I suspect we share similar geography - did you ever take part in the Mid-Somerset?

[_________mirror]

i'm not sure i did, no. my hometown is the unremarkable town of yate, you may know of it. when people ask me i say i come from somewhere near bath.. as i used to live in a village called norton st philip it's not too much of a distortion.. where are you from? what do you do now by the way? i'm in my final year of university.. but actually instead of studying today i've been watching bits of an old 90s tv show on the internet called 'are you afraid of the dark?' - i used to love it.

lucy x

[bethia_cathrain]

I've never been to Yate but I know where it is. I spent many a half-term day at Norwood Farm, and a school-friend used to live in the High Street, one or two houses along from The George, I think (did you know any of the Alexanders? There were about 10 of them!) I lived in Bath a long time, but now I'm living with all my Scottish family heritage again and writing a thesis in Edinburgh.

Hens and Zoos

[q_i]

You have all my sympathy in the world. The sagas of your life be they little or grand are a thing of joy. I am reassured that I am not insane or mad or peculiar in many out looks when I learn of your adventures. My fondness for large unladylike boots often draws sighs from friends and family alike, along with my lack of imperitive need for exotic holidaying and even then it must be spent pursuing archaeology

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[bethia_cathrain]

ooh, Centre Parcs (the 'c' has always /really/ annoyed me as well)...

What sort of costumes? Last night, walking down the Cowgate after a rehearsal, we were forced to pause for several minutes to allow for the passage of an enormous crocodile of hens, at least twenty, all sporting sparkly ears, black skin-tight lycra outfits and tails - the bride, easily identifiable by her baggage of an improbably huge, ahem, organ, looked none-too impressed by any of it.

At some stage we can share bad waitressing tales - I also endured several months in an immediately food-besplattered apron, cartwheeling sandwiches across the floor and into customers' laps. We got revenge on the evil manageress by cutting all the cakes into much larger pieces than they were supposed to be sold in.

Organza sheets? o dear. Hope all well otherwise.