• my diary

    one more week till halloween…

    And it’s almost time to start packing again after six days spent buggering about between cinemas turned out to be more tiring than I’d anticipated, and this plus a delayed train on the way home made for an unproductive few days, to say the least. Next year I may revert to last years’ modus and just hole up in my…

  • my diary

    there’s going to be a lot of sitting down…

    And it’s nine days since I got home from my first trip over to Aldgate East in a while – lots of fun was had despite a few spanners in the works at the hotel (I gave up requesting other rooms after the second move, and – with a bit of help – got the shower working eventually) and a…

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    a cooling off period…

    Well the weekend would have been more wonderful without the endless flipping between air conditioning so brutal that Pingu would have felt at home, and the thirty two degrees outside in the square (where I eventually threw in the towel on the Sunday afternoon and fell asleep in a deckchair under a tree, missing the post-lunch film altogether) and –…