Had my parents, little brother, and the elder of my two younger sisters in London for a visit from Saturday to Wednesday. Tate Modern, boat trip on the Thames, Spitalfields Market, Greenwich Observatory, Brick Lane, various restaurants – we did plenty over the few days and we ate plenty too.
Dad wanted to take a trip [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Stagger / Flow 8
Stagger is WORK: being back to it and having to do it in the first place. / Flow is payday including my yearly bonus.
June 19, 2008
The… Commute
It takes me an hour door-to-revolving door from my flat in East London to my work offices in West London. The commute involves a bus to Liverpool Street Station, a Central Line Tube to Holborn, then Picadilly Line Tube to Hammersmith Station, from there it’s a 10 minute walk to the office. The journey becomes [...]
June 19, 2008
Stagger / Flow 7
Stagger is waking up and feeling nauseous (must’ve been last night’s chips ‘n’ dips binge) / Flow is “winning” two Radiohead tickets on Ebay.
June 18, 2008
Thanks Dad
It was Fathers Day yesterday. I remembered at 9pm (thanks to a text from my sister). So, after the football I gave the big man a call to say hello.
“Hi. Is that my Dad?”
“It is.”
“Happy Fathers Day, Dad.”
“Ah, thanks very much.”
“Have you been enjoying your day?”
“I hadn’t realised it was Fathers Day until a couple [...]
June 18, 2008
Stagger / Flow 6
Stagger is losing £30 betting on a stupid tennis match / Flow is being full of beans ahead of the weekend.
June 13, 2008
Plums
I’d two free tickets to last night’s preview screening of the mockumentary, “The Complete History Of My Sexual Failures”. I forgot I had them until a couple of hours beforehand but I gave this girl a shout to see if she’d come along. Unfortunately, she’d to attend some fashion show with her housemate and couldn’t [...]
June 13, 2008
Stagger / Flow 5
Stagger is being billed for a court summons over unpaid Council Tax / Flow is, in the hope that Hell exists, the Council Tax woman I spoke to yesterday will be on her way there (maybe Satan could make that ignorant fuck speak to herself over the phone for her eternal punishment).
June 11, 2008
Following Your Country’s Football Team
Watched Sweden’s first game of Euro 2008 last night with a friend. Said friend is a Swedish girl, a good-looking Swedish girl who used to baffle me as much as the mindf*cker of June 5. Anyway, we were at university together in New York and now we’re living near each other in London and we’ve [...]
June 11, 2008
Stagger / Flow 4
Stagger is taking 7 days off The Booze / Flow is the prospect of 7 days without The Fear, The Rats or The Hungover Horn.
