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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Started conversation Jul 28, 2003
What a fantastic weekend.
After a non-descript and frustrating week, it was nice to wind down from Thursday night onwards. My thanks to Az who sat online through the night thursday chatting. (Though I think we both paid for it Friday 
) Thanks also to Lucy for a lovely lunch on Friday.
Friday night up the local (350 yards) to see top bloke and fine, fine bluesman Roy Mette. He's an Essex boy, but I know he plays all over the country - if you get the chance, go see him. He's a lot of fun and a great musician. Thank you to him for being the perfect wind-down.
Saturday to TG at Sahara Nights. What a fine venue (I wonder what it was before?). Thanks to the weather for holding off a little so that we could use the roof terrace to cool off from the dance floor. Thanks to Allen for making me feel better about my expanding leathers, as his had obviously shrunk in the wash, to Mark for being a social bulldozer and to Sally for thinking an above the knee dress was daring in the context of the TG. Thanks to Allen TG, Ian Schaeffer and The Eyeball Licker for laying down some banging tunes on the wheels of steel*. Now, when's the next one?
Chill out Sunday by ignoring the cricket and instead raising a small glass to the main man, Lance Armstrong. What an achievement!
And still ZZ Top to look forward to on Wednesday...
Now the only question is, do I have the finances and energy to do the Tribal City mini-festival on Friday night?
*Irony in the use of youthful slang to be interpreted as the reader desires.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Well, somebody certainly had an exciting weekend
The highlight of my weekend was a trip to a SF fair in Brum, where I managed to pickup a complete Saphire and Steel video set. Go I'm sad.
Sounds like a fair amount of alcohol was involved there though dear, how's your head today?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
Actually, very little. Two pints Friday night (oh, and two over lunch), and one smirnoff ice saturday night. (And iregretted that. A glassof red wine and and a Smirnoff Ice - £8!) Drinking and clubbing don't mix in my opinion, which is why the drinks are priced the way they are. Water is *virtually* free though...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
We clearly go to different sorts of clubs. I don't think I could tolerate an entire evening sober in the Hell-holes that are Burton and Derby's clubs
£8 quid! £1.50 a pint in most of the clubs I go in.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
It is a fairly long established tradition in London clubs that clubbers don't drink (pills and alcohol being a fairly bad combination if you are dancing and sweating as well...).
Oh, I forget to say thanks to Yoshimi for a fascinating display of shibari.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Shibari? And what might that be?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
Japanese bondage techniques...a Red area to you and me...
Was that the only thing you did at your SF con, but Sapphire and Steel vids (bet Bruce was pleased)? Surely there must have been a bar? Was this a genuine con or one of these nostalgia fairs?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Sounds facinating- you'll have to tell me all about it off-site
It was memorabila- not a con, pretty much just a large cult-themed market in the NEC. I also purchased Dr. Who books, ashtrays and videoes, and a few other bits and pieces. I think I spent around a week's pay in 4 hours 
I had a few drinks, but I object to paying £2.30 for a pint of Tetley's in a plastic glass.
Dirk Bendict was there, charging £50 for a signature (I passed). Plus a few others- purely there for signing though.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
Who the *hell* is desperate enough to want Dirk Benedict's autograph for £50? I mean really...
So in other words you bought a load of old rubbish to help fill up your new house with?
Shibari is fascinating. An art form in it's own right, really. You know these Japs, never do anything by halves...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Worringly, there did seem to be a bloody great queue for him 
And, um, yes, pretty much. I need a new video cabinet now, the old one was neatly full, and now I've got two DVD box sets and 12 videos to find homes for.
At least the ashtrays are practical....
Well, they do do somethings by half- grow for example.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
Oh you wicked woman. Sizeist jokes on a monday morning...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
I'm allowed to make sizeist jokes, being knee high to a normal sized person myself.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
Ah, but you make up for your lack of stature in so many other ways, hon...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Why thank you 
. I'd say nice things come in little packages, but however that doesn't seem entirely fitting
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
I think your nice. Yo've certainly been very tolerant of a mopey old Blues these last months. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Shhh, or everyone'll know And you've not been that mopey, and you're not old. It's quite cute really, reminds me of Fred Basset...
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
I'll settle for being Fred Bassett - a good armchair philosopher, Fred.
And i didn't mean old in that sense. I was going for a sort of Hector's House feel...Probably before your time though.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Hey, you're talking to the woman that knows more about programmes broadcast before she was born, than what's on TV tonight. Find, that's settled then, it's Fred. Well, it's either Romana or Fred, to paraphrase the man with the scarf.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 28, 2003
I don't think I'd look as godd in a schoolgirl's outfit as Lalla Ward, sweeteheart... (What was going through somebodies mind when that costume was thought up?)
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 28, 2003
Maybe not, but it'd be fun finding out
It was her idea, maybe she was hoping to distract Tom to the extent he couldn't say his lines...
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