More books have arrived, mainly virus/epidemic ones, and a Momus book which I am fairly certain I didn't order (the problem of trying to work out which books are presents and which are the product of panic-buying is ongoing), and all kinds of other gubbins. Soon it really must be time to turn off the limitless spending ( Read more... )

Yesterday went incredibly badly up to a point, and then a mutual decision was taken that it wasn't going to go badly any more, and we went to Battersea Park ( Read more... )

Saturday: Shouted at Harrods, left with a picnic (salmon, some smoked eel and tuna nigiri, game and duck pies for dinner, and a "raspberry cheesecake chocolate brownie" I am keen to replicate) and some Chalbonnel and Walker truffles, walked to South Bank via the ICA where I bought a biography DVD of William Burroughs because it turns out that some ( Read more... )

Went to walk the London Wall, or the remains of it, with Emma, yesterday. Arrived too early and spent a while reading London Falling in the war memorial. Surprisingly warm for December, or possibly I just know how to dress for the weather. Anyway: The book continues to irritate me because the ideas are good but the characters are just collections ( Read more... )

Graffiti spotted in the glorious, monkish cubbyhole I found in the library today to do my aggressively horrible writing: "Chris's mum is the coldest in bed and his little brother sucks his dick ( Read more... )

19. What do you collect?Partners apparently. Dust. Dead animals. Books but not in a very "collector" sense. I think my collector mentality which I had quite strongly and autistically as a kid was mostly removed by going away to school, and then by having to carry all my own shit a few times when moving house, and I think also it was never very ( Read more... )

Today, among other things (ICA, RAF war memorial, accidental wandering through the back streets of Mayfair and then Soho, Ed's Diner, etc), we found ourselves in the big Waterstones in Piccadilly. My leg decided it didn't want none when it came to walking down the stairs so I had to have an embarrassing defeat on a comfy chair while the WEIRD CRAMP ( Read more... )

White Mischief duly attended. I think Jess had mixed feelings about it - she definitely wasn't impressed by "Sam & The Womp" (who had dancing badgers and an incongruous plea to address the badger cull) who are apparently boring hipsters. As I don't tend to watch videos of live performances of anything very often I've missed out on a lot of stuff, ( Read more... )

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EpidermisPlayed Cards Against Humanity in the pub last night with #folk, and accidently dragged some singing Les Mis fans into the mix after we'd insulted them quite loudly in the first place for being Les Mis fans. Cards Against Humanity is slightly too American-weighted ( Read more... )

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