London
Apr0
Went down to London this weekend to see Rodney off to Australia and to wish Paul happy birthday. We’re a bit skint this month so we decided to go by Coach. It’s quite a big decision and you really feel it 4 hours in. Thankfully our iPhone’s seemed to have saved the day with both Kate and I using Stanza to read some eBooks whilst listening to music. For the journeys I was trying to catch up on some things I’d not got round to listening to yet:
Dan Auerbach
Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip
Mistabishi
Robert Wyatt
whilst reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
On Saturday we had great fun playing Pitch & Putt which I hadn’t done for years. We did a bit of Golf with Liz & Chris last summer and I had surprised myself by how far I was able to hit it. This time the length was good again, but accuracy not so. But I’m willing to do it again. I think Kate enjoyed it too, so we may even go and play at Heaton Park when Liz & Chris visit next.
I hadn’t realised this beforehand but we were entering into an annual event that they play between themselves. Last years winner provides the trophy, the loser brings the wooden spoon. Paul decided on the handicaps for everyone so that everybody has a good chance at winning. Kate (handicap 
and I (6) were paired up with Liz (8) & Chris (3). It’s a par 3 course and a very pleasant day.
Of course there was some Alcohol involved and we’d met up in the pub beforehand and that continued on afterwards and some very nice places around Richmond. We finished up in a place that was the only nightclub-ish place in Richmond and at first I thought it was going to be horrible with some awful music on. But as it went on the music improved and we had a great time.
On Sunday we were a bit late up, but managed to get to Lords for 2 to meet Pelling and watch a bit of Middlesex vs Scotland. Unfortunately the timing was a bit bad for us as we needed to get to Victoria for our coach and so leave about 4.15 and of course it was a One-day match and the first 50 overs finished about half 3 or so with play not resuming until 4. So we decided we should leave at 4 and to our surprise we were aloud onto the pitch to have a bit of a mill around.
The coach back was courtesy of Megabus. We’d gone down with National Express, which I have to say as coaches go are worth the extra £3 each for comfort and the fact that it had a toilet. Sunday night’s ride just seemed to go on forever and the coach was really warm too. Not sure when we’ll be going to London next though as the Slarmers are moving to Scotland so we’ll be training up to there most likely.
In other news it seems like our house hunting will go on, we think the house we’d put an offer on is a bit crooked and it would be a bit too much of a risk.
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