tuesday.

So here's what's been going down in my world.

Took fri off due to waking up blind and ill as anything. slept till 2 or something, one of those amazing sleeps that you have after a night of restlessness, those ones where you're drifting in and out, and each time you wake a bit, you are profoundly aware of how comfortable you are.

Went to Brighton on Sat, for Ricks b day. London transport served us well, taking us all over london in the morning, and then taking 3 hours to get back from Victoria at night.

First time I'd ever been to Brighton. I always expected to have like a revelation there, i've heard so much about it, and i know so many people who love it the most. It certainly is a little nest, different from anywhere else that I've been. It all feels a bit detached from reality, like everyone that lives there is in a secret gang or something. Had a great day, amazing dinner: battered halloumi with capers and cold minted peas and chips and vodka injected tomatoes, oh yeah, and a quail's egg(!):

At the best vegetarian restaurant I've ever been to! Bloody hell it was good. I will def go back to Brighton to go there! Terre a Terre I think it's called. I am certainly pro any city that is interested in providing vegetarian feasts. Everyone always goes on about how expensive Brighton is but I had a really reasonable experience in that respect, everything seemed much less than london. There are also amazing shops, I found the biggest selection of Moomin ever, I purchased 2 items which I shall share with you tomorrow.

I can see why it would become annoying, everyone there is young and everyone is making a 'statement' of some sort. It does have the surreal atmosphere of a festival or a campus or something, which i imagine would grate if you were there doing a normal job and stuff, but I had a great time there, Simon got the best result ever on the Guitar Hero arcade machine, and I spent about £50 trying to win things on the FUCKIng claw-grabby machines again... someone stop me...please...had lots of fun sitting in the sun and drinking beer, which is still perhaps the most enjoyable activity that there is. It's been so long...

Then in the evening, me, Simon, and lal enjoyed some rum and ginger beer, from a rum-based tavern which even had a rum club. And Lally and me both got ID'd which was pretty sweet, combined we're 22 years over 18, so that's always cheery.

Lost the will to live travelling across London on the way back from Brighton, was even forced to wee in the the street like a dog due to being 2 hours away from previous loo and the same still to go... :( weeing in the street sober, I hope it's the one and only time I, or any one else has to endure that...

Sunday we had a barbecue as is the bank Holiday Tradition...

Simon dressed as a crazy bastard and played the organ and we all drank lots of beer and made an excellent video starring Wolfie, Chloe and Ricky's adopted son made of half sock/ half glove, half pig/ half rabbit, riding a horse, namely, Rick, while a ghost, Chloe, sang to him. It was a fine moment.

Went to Highgate cemetery on Monday, which I had always wanted to do.

It was absolutely amazing. It's the English Pere La Chaise.

there are patches which are devoted to different people, Italians, Poles, Russians, Chinese people, there are patches of Communists and Socialists, Jews, graves of journalists and a fireman's memorial. And obviously this crazy guy guy:

It does seem a bit weird to have loads of communists buried in churchyard, but actually I think it's rather nice, everyone in it together, like in the living world. It was such a crazy place though, vast areas all overgrown with winding vines, wrapping around the gravestones, nature taking over and all that. I recommend you go there, I'll come with.


Just enduring the daily grind at the moment, everything is even more crazy than normal, I've been hot and bothered all day, and my lungs are still rasping with the remnants of illness.

I'll leave you with this, it was on the telly when we turned it on on sunday night.

yesterday will return at 6 am.

yeah?