'Some of these multi-coloured lesbains don't half look miserable'
A busy weekend - again! On Friday night I made James a nice meal. It felt like I was in the kitchen for an age but it well worth it. I made a Turkish lamb and apricot casserole thing followed by cherry clafoutis. I de-stoned two whole punnets of cherries and parts of my figures are still stained now. Seriously, I suffer for my art. But it was a big success, especially the casserole. We've been cutting down our meat in-take lately so buying and eating lamb felt like a proper treat!
On Saturday it was fairly quiet which made a nice change! In the evening we ventured out to spend our voucher at Thai Edge. I had sweet and sour pork and we shared a vegetarian starter. It was all very nice but Leeds is quite good for Thai restaurants so I thin I prefer its competition. However, I've won a £15 voucher on twitter so we will be going back (if anyone wants to add me on there who hasn't already then my username is the same as here)! The restaurant did redeem itself on desserts though. I had banana ice cream and mango sorbet which was lovely. We were quite full afterwards so we podged out and watched (and I stress that this wasn't my choice) First Knight. First time that James has chosen a dud in a while! It was just very bland, and while some of it was quite good (some good fights, chases) it was all quite flat and unengaging.
Sunday was busier. We went on the Leeds tour bus! It was resident's weekend so it was free. I learned lots of little interesting snippets too. There used to be Monopoly factory here, the first moving picture was filmed here and the first permanent traffic lights were erected here! Also, the guy who created the sculptures in city square created the Queen Victoria statue outside Buckingham Palace. Also, Dame Judy Dench opened the West Yorkshire Playhouse! Fascinating! Of course, some of the commentary did get mocked by us. 'Clarance Dock is now an urban village...' - "Ghost Town more like". 'Leeds has more park space than any city in the UK' - "None in the city centre though!". Leeds College of Music got a hefty mention surprisingly. I didn't know that we were the country's biggest music College so I even learned something about my workplace! Haha.
In the afternoon we went to Leeds Pride. It's a funny thing. We go but we still feel like outsiders when we're there. As James said, it makes us feel excluded from a group that can already often feel excluded. We're not really 'scene' people, but the acts are fun and it's free. We had dinner at the Museum Cafe (obviously) first and got treated to Bears Aloud, the Dame Shirley Bassey Experience and, errr, Adam Rickitt. Mr Rickitt (Tory hearthrob that he is *ugh*) did his new David Guetta produced single (?!), I Breathe Again 2010 (?!!), Everything My Heart Desires and a topless Encore of the original I Breathe Again (??!!!). very bizarre. there were some right sights there as well. As James rightfully said, "Some of these multi-coloured lesbians don't half look miserable". Haha. We didn't march this year. James had done it every time he'd been so he wanted to watch the whole thing for a change. Although half way round he did say "We should join in really to show that not all gay people are weirdos". See, it's a love/hate thing. We slacked off the Lower Briggate party side in favour of going shopping in Tescos. Oh, we did see Ellen and Jonathan who we knew through James' old Skipton LGBT group although they were working so we couldn't chat for long.
So after all that fun we went home and watched Sherlock! It's very good. It's just so nice to have something on the BBC that's 90 and can breathe a bit. So if that's the price that I have to pay for only three episodes then so be it!
I forgot to mention last time about Toy Story 3 and their portrayal of Ken. There's been quite the wittering about how homophobic it was. Even Attitude mentioned it this month (Did I mention that I'm in Gay Times this month? Haha. A tweet about Lisa Scott-Lee is in there! Haha!). But surely it's more homophobic to assume that he's gay? He just likes clothes and is quite effeminate. I dunno.
On Saturday it was fairly quiet which made a nice change! In the evening we ventured out to spend our voucher at Thai Edge. I had sweet and sour pork and we shared a vegetarian starter. It was all very nice but Leeds is quite good for Thai restaurants so I thin I prefer its competition. However, I've won a £15 voucher on twitter so we will be going back (if anyone wants to add me on there who hasn't already then my username is the same as here)! The restaurant did redeem itself on desserts though. I had banana ice cream and mango sorbet which was lovely. We were quite full afterwards so we podged out and watched (and I stress that this wasn't my choice) First Knight. First time that James has chosen a dud in a while! It was just very bland, and while some of it was quite good (some good fights, chases) it was all quite flat and unengaging.
Sunday was busier. We went on the Leeds tour bus! It was resident's weekend so it was free. I learned lots of little interesting snippets too. There used to be Monopoly factory here, the first moving picture was filmed here and the first permanent traffic lights were erected here! Also, the guy who created the sculptures in city square created the Queen Victoria statue outside Buckingham Palace. Also, Dame Judy Dench opened the West Yorkshire Playhouse! Fascinating! Of course, some of the commentary did get mocked by us. 'Clarance Dock is now an urban village...' - "Ghost Town more like". 'Leeds has more park space than any city in the UK' - "None in the city centre though!". Leeds College of Music got a hefty mention surprisingly. I didn't know that we were the country's biggest music College so I even learned something about my workplace! Haha.
In the afternoon we went to Leeds Pride. It's a funny thing. We go but we still feel like outsiders when we're there. As James said, it makes us feel excluded from a group that can already often feel excluded. We're not really 'scene' people, but the acts are fun and it's free. We had dinner at the Museum Cafe (obviously) first and got treated to Bears Aloud, the Dame Shirley Bassey Experience and, errr, Adam Rickitt. Mr Rickitt (Tory hearthrob that he is *ugh*) did his new David Guetta produced single (?!), I Breathe Again 2010 (?!!), Everything My Heart Desires and a topless Encore of the original I Breathe Again (??!!!). very bizarre. there were some right sights there as well. As James rightfully said, "Some of these multi-coloured lesbians don't half look miserable". Haha. We didn't march this year. James had done it every time he'd been so he wanted to watch the whole thing for a change. Although half way round he did say "We should join in really to show that not all gay people are weirdos". See, it's a love/hate thing. We slacked off the Lower Briggate party side in favour of going shopping in Tescos. Oh, we did see Ellen and Jonathan who we knew through James' old Skipton LGBT group although they were working so we couldn't chat for long.
So after all that fun we went home and watched Sherlock! It's very good. It's just so nice to have something on the BBC that's 90 and can breathe a bit. So if that's the price that I have to pay for only three episodes then so be it!
I forgot to mention last time about Toy Story 3 and their portrayal of Ken. There's been quite the wittering about how homophobic it was. Even Attitude mentioned it this month (Did I mention that I'm in Gay Times this month? Haha. A tweet about Lisa Scott-Lee is in there! Haha!). But surely it's more homophobic to assume that he's gay? He just likes clothes and is quite effeminate. I dunno.