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She's a 20th century girl, holding on for dear life

It's been an eventful few days, what with one thing and another.

I went out on my hangover (as outlined in the previous post) to drink more with DL, The Bell of the Ball and Ms. Allsop, ahead of the latter's departure to another hemisphere next week. We started the evening in Trader Vic's and drank large cocktails in strange receptacles (including 'man-sized goblet' and 'fishbowl glass' - it was a bummer I didn't get to have the warm cocktail that was served in a mug in the shape of a skull. Another time). While we were there, two members of Girls Aloud arrived with a lunkhead Welsh presenter from Channel 4. The former seemed like little dolls, with tiny waists (and tinier skirts). The latter I found completely unattractive: just what it is about men who can barely string a sentence together? From there we had some delicious tapas and then some more to drink. It was a fine old evening.

The following evening, off to fashionable West London to the Westbourne Studios for Ms. Vivi and Carlos's leaving do. Here's a blurry shot of the glorious venue, which has been built directly under the Westway and provides a home for various creative/artistic enterprises (as well as a superb bar):

The only problem with this picture is that it doesn't show the ceiling of the place, which is the underside of the flyover. We had a circular bank of leather sofas to lounge on and some lovely tunes to hum along to. We'll see Vivi again before she goes to Rio in November, so it was hard to feel sad about her departure just yet.

Yesterday, Simply the Wests came over with their lovely children. We ate a huge dinner and threw some bread at some ducks, which is always good. I had a chance for a brief chat/whinge with Mrs. West about various things, including us needing to go out on the razz together.

This week seems to be much less busy. I am gearing up for the Lost finale tomorrow, which I'm awaiting feverishly. And then there's the small matter of getting out of my job, which needs to happen soon.

posted by deafdisco @ 11:26 am