In Hoose Entertainment

Thought I’d better update you on my week. Now where did I leave you?

ah Wednesday I guess!

Wednesday. ummm. Not much happened on Wednesday. we lost against Northern Ireland (and you can see what I thought about that below!) but not a lot else! so let’s leave it at that!

Thursday - the start of the last test match! COME ON ENGLAND! I did spend rather a lot of time watching the game but eventually made it into work and typed up a proof and a lemma (excitement!) then went out to play hockey.

Of course it started to rain about 530 and we started to play hockey at around 630, it was wet, we got wet, the light disappeared around 8pm but we played on til 830 for some reason (by which point we could no longer see the ball!) the rain made for slippy conditions and people kept falling over, which would’ve been comedy if you’d been watching it (though presumably in a nice warm house with a cup of tea… mmmmm tea) and sticks kept flying out of hands - memorably Lukes (whose stick slammed into my knee!) and Mahinda’s (who nearly knocked out Cathy) we made the right choice eventually and went down to Hardy’s for the post hockey pint.

the score? no idea, I’m pretty sure we won and I scored loads.

Friday:
Watched some cricket (though this was the first day of the rain, so not a great deal) and proved another lemma (the one I wrote down yesterday (more excitement!)) headed out to the footage for around 5pm and met Linden, Squiz, Rosy & Paddy; the latter three had been there since 2 and Squiz was soon to start on his second bottle (shared with Alsion who turned up around 6 (I think!))

Linden, Rosy and I went down to meet Mahinda at 7pm in the Square Albert only to find, when we got there, that

a) It was closed!
b) Mahinda hadn’t even left yet!

So Rosy espied “The Rising Sun” a small corridor type pub with a nice range of beer, and we went there for a couple whilst we waited.

Mahinda turned up with his friend, Jeanette, a dentist, whose probably thoroughly fed up of people talking to her about their impending fillings…. :s

On to Tampopo - a noodle bar - nice, very nice, but (imo!) not as nice as wagamamas which is *great*.

We left there and headed down to FAB café, where we met up with alsion again, and her sisters.

much dancing, drinking, cavorting took place.

On the way home Linden had the beezer idea of a kebab, I was the only one who agreed (the others all flaked away) and had a decent kebab in Rusholme before catching my bus home and arriving back for 4am or so.

good night out

Saturday
More cricket (of course) looking decent for us now as the darkness and rain has given us hope of the draw.

Spent most of the day recovering from a hangover (don’t do the crime… etc etc…) and went shopping at some point; Listened to the footie (Spurs 0-0 Liverpool) and wrote out some of my songs neatly (I figure that when I next form a band — soon — it’ll be easiest to teach my songs to people if they’re written down - I’m going to make some tapes as well). Linden wants to be in the band so it’s already started to shape up nicely.

Speaking of the GBOF PFE BAHONS etc etc….. She called around 7pm asking if we fancied another trip out. Still feeling a bit broken from yesterday I said “Yes!” - of course. one ibuprofen and nicely cooked dinner later and I’m ready to play.

We meet up with Linden and her friend Celia in the Paramount and drink whilst the PFE does her work (I’m on vodka today to avoid a hangover) and we decide to try Tribeca. Benn is also there, and we find him at the bar, he joins our group.

Tribeca is a nice bar and it has good seats. Unfortunately it’s a bit pricey. True they did accidentaly give me a triple, but I feel I paid for it .

Linden introduces us to the game of “Quarters” or “Ten P’s” and much coin bouncing ensues. The game only ends when we run out of drink and Linden breaks a glass (a few photo’s exist of this, and I’ll have to try and get me one!)

I’ll explain what “Quarters” is in a reference post after I’ve finished this one. It’s a fun game.

Due to the expense we agree to move on (oh, I almost forgot Sleazy Rich and Aussie Nath have joined us by this point!) but we can’t seem to agree on where.

Fifth Avenue is the choice of the cognicant but we’re not sure whether they will let us in so we consider Funkademia and the Baa Baa before I point out that fifth avenue is about a 2 minute walk away so we can go and check out whether they will let us in and if they don’t we can go 2 mins the other way to the baa baa.

Fifth Ave. let us in.

“So what do you like about this place”

-Sleazy Rich to Celia

Fifth A. Is packed, and they start with a good stream of indie, followed by a misguided section of dance and finishing off with another stream of indie. had a very good time.

Dancing took place on a large scale. the dancefloor was packed and there was plenty of push and shove, but nothing inappropriate (oo-er!) a game of beer popping takes place (hitting the top of a bottle to try and make beer gush out of it) Rosy is the overall loser until mahinda gets me with a doozy. D’oh!

home! no food today but I think that’s common consent! Tiredness has struck!

Sunday:
I got up; texted a few people, and now I’m typing here whilst listening to the cricket. 3 wickets have dropped today and that is largely responsible for the title of the post (I thought it was a good enough pun (that means it’s really bad, I know!).

Off for Sunday lunch around Adrians. Next week is my turn!

Anyway, I can’t stay to natter all day. Tarra!