Tuesday... already??
Friday - I was supposed to get out of work a bit early, as is the custom before a bank holiday weekend, but the volume of shit on my desk prevented this from happening. I eventually tore myself away, dashed home, met Lande, changed, and headed to Piccadilly Circus, where the annual London Sci-Fi Festival was in full swing. I'd meant to attend this for years, but hadn't got organised enough until now; an old college friend was working there, so we all agreed to go and watch a special screening of The City of Lost Children, with an introduction and Q & A session by director Marc Caro. Birthday boy fireblade__ also joined us for this and it was superb (I'd seen the movie before, but not for about ten years, and had largely forgotten how great it is). Afterwards we all legged it to Camden for a couple of hours at Inferno, but a long busy week was beginning to take its toll and we flaked after only a couple of hours.
Saturday - I spent some more time working on some music-making with my PC. I'm getting slowly better at this. A lot of it still sounds awful, but some rays of barely listenable are starting to shine through in places. I also did some work on a landscape painting that I'm doing.
Sunday - Made it down to Croydon in time to have a pub lunch with my parents and a fair bit of my extended family. My grandmother's health doesn't look great, but she's hanging in there and it was good to see her again. Lande and I stayed at my parents' place in the evening.
Monday - We all drove down to Kent look at Hever Castle. I think I might have gone there once as a child, maybe on a school trip, but didn't remember it too well.
It was beautiful and, as it was May Day bank holiday, there was also Morris Dancing going on, and actors wandering around, interacting with guests and portraying Henry VIII and Anne Bolyn. It's a pity we had to queue so long to get into the actual castle (but it was a bank holiday) because I missed the chance to have a go on the archery. Very good day out anyway... and back home to a huge heap of ironing in the evening.
Saturday - I spent some more time working on some music-making with my PC. I'm getting slowly better at this. A lot of it still sounds awful, but some rays of barely listenable are starting to shine through in places. I also did some work on a landscape painting that I'm doing.
Sunday - Made it down to Croydon in time to have a pub lunch with my parents and a fair bit of my extended family. My grandmother's health doesn't look great, but she's hanging in there and it was good to see her again. Lande and I stayed at my parents' place in the evening.
Monday - We all drove down to Kent look at Hever Castle. I think I might have gone there once as a child, maybe on a school trip, but didn't remember it too well.
It was beautiful and, as it was May Day bank holiday, there was also Morris Dancing going on, and actors wandering around, interacting with guests and portraying Henry VIII and Anne Bolyn. It's a pity we had to queue so long to get into the actual castle (but it was a bank holiday) because I missed the chance to have a go on the archery. Very good day out anyway... and back home to a huge heap of ironing in the evening.