booze restraint.

Had a supersweet weekend in(on) the 'toon, me and Olivia demonstrated admirable booze restraint (BR) which enabled us to carry out far more activities that we would have otherwise, such as eating, waking up, walking without retching, and other things which open up when BR is undertaken...

Saw an amazing exhibition of Penguin books (Penguin poets cover designs on the left), even better, we were the only people in the whole museum, all the other idiots that wanted to see it obviously hadn't done BR and were all lolling about in a stinking cloud, dreaming of penguin books...( Oh, the main characteristic of BR is that it makes you REALLY smug and self-righteous). It also meant that we didn't have to contend with anyone else loudly discussing stuff like at the Northern art Prize last week when me and Rowey were faced with annoying bastards at every turn, laughing too loudly at supposedly 'witty' art, to prove that they understood the most, and saying stuff like "was it something I said??!!" whenever the film screen went dark or the noise stopped, hahahaaaaa!!!!!!

So we perused the wonderful covers for ages and I roared like a ponce, free from recrimination! YES!!

I really love Penguin books. They truly are amazing, and it was great to see how well their modern covers, and continued dedication to design and content still stands up to the original ethos, if anything, Penguin is striving now more than ever to stay true to their original ethos of

reading equality and quality.

Now will they please give me a job designing book covers for f's sake?

We went for a Kerala vegetarian feast, and feast it was. Then after summoning a taxi, it collected us literally from our chairs in the restaurant (!!) and we lay in bed watching Mark Steel Lectures till we lolled off to sleep, San Pelegrino in one hand, tiny tangerine in the other. Now that's some sweet living.

On Sunday we watched some kids drag a sledge up and down some grass outside the window, even though no snow had fallen (?!) they abandoned it and started to lob rubbish about instead, much more satisfying for them.

It's the snowiest day ever today apparently, some scallywags pelted my bus with snowballs... I disapprove of such things now that I am nearly 30 and shook my head and tutted.

There were LOADS of people on Parker's Pieces making snowmen and smashing each other in the faces with snow. Really wished that I could play in the snow today, you could make an excellent snowman. Mum and Gaby's schools are both closed. Only mine soldiers on. Open as usual. I even rang up and went 'h h hello, i i isss the school open??' so now I've been exposed as a no good wannabe skiver...

They just anounced that they're closing school at 1:15 (not for me, the library must remain always open) so all the students are going crazy, but I'm letting them cause it is really exciting when you can leave school early. (I only remember it happening once at Netherhall, when the heating broke. But they had to make sure everyone's parents were in so we sat on the floor in the freezing canteen for most of the day anyway!)