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weekend 29/1-1/2/09
Feb. 2nd, 2009 03:36 pmFriday afternoon brought a phone call from a friend - "are you going to see Richard Thompson tonight"? Well, of *course* we were, so we decided to join them for an early dinner, and avail ourselves of their free, secure parking 5 minutes walk from Colsonall. Which was nice.
Budokan was full, so we repaired to Kathmandu, where I took on a Duck Makalu, which was delicious. And Pat and Dave insisted on picking up the tab, saying that we often cook for them, so that was exceedingly nice of them.
Richard Thompson - well, if you don't know by now ... I've seen him play in concert halls, at folk festivals and, on a fab occasion last year, in a pubby sort of venue in Southampton. I've seen him solo, with Danny Thompson, with a band, acoustic, electric. This was his 1000 Years of Music tour, which is ace - we have the DVDs already, but he'd mixed the programme up a bit. Extraordinary how whatever he plays, be it medieval or Nelly Furtado, it is unmistakeably RT. And the Beatles medley at the end were fab.
The rest of the weekend was house stuff - we got the cooker cleaned properly, taking it all to bits and taking its knobs off (ooh er) and so forth. I cooked roast pork belly for Saturday supper, and we watched Mamma Mia (how wonderful is that?) and Strictly Ballroom (which is probably my favourite film evah).
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perlmonger cooked a nice fry up for Sunday brunch (bubble/squeak, black pudding, bacon, egg), and we had a thai veg curry from the freezer before sallying out to the Legion for the pub quiz with Pat&Dave again, where we achieved our goal of coming second (if you come first, you have to buy the raffle prizes).
So that was that. Not much sner here, sadly, but more forecast tomorrow, so I live in hope. If it comes down, I'm taking a couple of hours off and going for a yomp across the fields - we don't see enough of the white stuff here.
Budokan was full, so we repaired to Kathmandu, where I took on a Duck Makalu, which was delicious. And Pat and Dave insisted on picking up the tab, saying that we often cook for them, so that was exceedingly nice of them.
Richard Thompson - well, if you don't know by now ... I've seen him play in concert halls, at folk festivals and, on a fab occasion last year, in a pubby sort of venue in Southampton. I've seen him solo, with Danny Thompson, with a band, acoustic, electric. This was his 1000 Years of Music tour, which is ace - we have the DVDs already, but he'd mixed the programme up a bit. Extraordinary how whatever he plays, be it medieval or Nelly Furtado, it is unmistakeably RT. And the Beatles medley at the end were fab.
The rest of the weekend was house stuff - we got the cooker cleaned properly, taking it all to bits and taking its knobs off (ooh er) and so forth. I cooked roast pork belly for Saturday supper, and we watched Mamma Mia (how wonderful is that?) and Strictly Ballroom (which is probably my favourite film evah).
perlmonger cooked a nice fry up for Sunday brunch (bubble/squeak, black pudding, bacon, egg), and we had a thai veg curry from the freezer before sallying out to the Legion for the pub quiz with Pat&Dave again, where we achieved our goal of coming second (if you come first, you have to buy the raffle prizes).So that was that. Not much sner here, sadly, but more forecast tomorrow, so I live in hope. If it comes down, I'm taking a couple of hours off and going for a yomp across the fields - we don't see enough of the white stuff here.
