Too many late nights

[lnr]

Sunday night I wandered along to the pub in the evening, and a quiet few drinks turned into a long evening of narging about metal mostly, with a rather incongruous bunch of people. Nice to see Chris Ball again, and to meet his friend Steve, who was in Cambridge for an interview on Monday. Hope it went well anyway. We drank whisky which was older than half the people in the room, Mobbsy played DJ, Pete moshed and made his head ache, and a good time was apparently had by all.

Monday I went along to pizza again, and it was lovely to talk to Martin. Post-pizza was surprisingly small, and in my case surprisingly sober, since I was drinking Irn Bru not port. Though I did introduce people to the Berwick-upon-Tweed. We played Apples to Apples, and collapsed in giggles at the idea of not only JFK's assassination but also Pearl Harbor being considered "casual". It was a pleasant gathering anyway. Would have been nice if rjk came along though.

Today it is almost very tempting to go to the Calling, but I really think I need a quiet night in, and so does rjk. Wednesday I'm popping down to visit Kitty for the day. Should be nice to catch up since we haven't really talked in a while. Thursday I'm taking rjk out to dinner after Karate, which I expect to be nice. And at the weekend my parents are coming down. They've got a cottage booked in Norfolk for a week from Saturday, though in fact we'll probably not be using it for the last few days, since it's the folk festival. Which I'm looking forward to.

And after that I might be going back to work. Which is pretty scary really. I've definitely had a few rather obvious anxiety dreams about it over the last couple of months. Though not so much lately. Last night I seemed to be having an odd dream which keeps recurring, which seems to be about moving out of a college room, and lots of packing. It was an odd variant on it though, since most of it seemed to be based on a landing outside the corridor, since they wouldn't let me in without ID and I couldn't find the ID card, and I ended up going through bags and suitcases trying to find it. And a particularly enormous heap of shoes were uncovered in the process. All very strange.

I slept in too long today really, but maybe I can get some useful things done this afternoon.

And yes, for the avoidance of doubt, I seem to be going out with Mike, which is a very very good thing indeed, but I'm not going to go on about it because it would be unfair and hurt people.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I have the ID card dreams too and they suck. More shoes would be nice however.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

We're just back from a week in a cottage in Norfolk, and very nice it was too. Let me know if you/they want suggestions / recommendations of places to go, although I don't know if you're all already totally familiar with the area.

[lnr]

That would be lovely!

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

OK, of course it also depends on where exactly the cottage is and how far you want to travel from there! For reference we stayed in Hopton (on the coast half way between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft).

Things we liked:

• Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens - tigers, monkeys, crocs, exotic birds etc, all very well laid out and maintained.


• Fritton Lake CountryWorld - excellent displays of falconry, probably otherwise not that exciting unless you have small children in tow


• Oulton Broad - we hired a little boat from the day boat centre at Oulton and had a couple of hours pootling up the river. Very scenic and relaxing.


• Burgh Castle - remains of old Roman castle, not terribly exciting in themselves but the NW corner of the site was the start of a very nice leisurely walk along the edge of one of the broads


• Waveney Forest - more nice walk.
  

The only thing we did that I probably wouldn't have bothered with in hindsight was a day in Great Yarmouth itself, although the Sea Life Centre there was good.

Hope this helps.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Where did you eat? People tell me that Britain's best seafood is served in Norfolk pub-restaurants, but I've never tracked down exactly where.

Asked Nigel, who knows the A47 and very little else of Norfolk

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Ah, we had a self catering arrangement in the cottage so apart from one lunch out at Harry Ramsdens in Great Yarmouth, we had picnic lunches and ate at home in the evenings. Having a 14-month-old in tow tends to limit the options for eating out somewhat!

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I played Apples to Apples for the first time a few weeks ago under the influence of alchohol admittedly. I managed to win rounds with Pokemon and profound, Ernest Hemmingway and zany (and also one with socks and odd). Which all goes to show that it depends on the judge for that round rather than the accuracy of the description :-)

Were you playing the English or the American version?

[lnr]

American, judging from the landmarks and people involved.