It’s been sooooo windy today!
I had a lie in this morning and after two glasses of medicinal wine last night and an early to bed night I slept well and felt loads better today.
This morning I went off and did food shopping for next week and posted another ebay parcel, Ady did gardening and defrosted the chiller (or chill-eh as we call it here – in the style of Bonn-eh from BB!) – see I’m not the only one prone to muffinicity 😉
We had lunch and then we headed off to Brighton. Ali had very kindly treated Davies and I to join her and Freya in seeing James Campbell perform as part of Brighton Festival. D & S were being the most stereotypical siblings in the world in the back of the car and Ady and I were responding by being the most stereotypical parents in the world in the front so it was a blessed relief to be dropped off with D and only have one child to one parent for a while :-). We’d arranged to meet Ali at the Lush shop and I must confess to purchasing a couple of bars of solid shampoo with the justification that they are just perfect for camping 😉 And of course the mere exhaling of the scent of Lush while breathing in the shop was instantly calming and restorative.
Then we walked down to the area where he was performing and joined the queue. Freya and Davies were on good form together although it felt slightly odd to be there with Tarly really as I’ve only previously seen them as a trio – the show would have been beyond her though and as I had Davies sitting on my lap throughout she’d have been something of a liability too. I thought the routine was very good – he has quite a bit of Eddie Izard about him who I am rather a fan of anyway and I love the risk of stand up so to perform to a room of children quadrupled that gamble and I thought he pulled it off well. Davies and Freya certainly seemed to enjoy it, me and Ali did plenty of laughing out loud. Davies even joined in with some shouting out the answers at one point. We signed up for the mailing list for future Brighton events including a possible stand up workshop for children (and what is wrong with living vicariously through one’s children exactly 😉 ) and then Ali headed off in one direction while we headed off to meet Ady and Tarly in the other. Thanks very much Ali, we really enjoyed it 🙂
We’d arranged to meet them at the mad roundabout infront of the pier. If you know Brighton at all this will imediately make sense to you, if you don’t then infront of Palace Pier there is a roundabout with about 5 exits which is a constant state of utter chaos with the soundtrack of tooting horns and people leaning out of their cars yelling and waving fists at each other. The rule of giving to the right is utterly irrelevant when there are five exits and the whole thing is against a backdrop of all Brighton’s finest hanging out infront of the pier and with the faintest threatening of sunshine there will be hundreds of motorbikes added to the mix too. Love it! 🙂
We watched the sea, which was very very choppy for a bit and the pigeons and seagulls digging in the stones then we started to walk along the prom away from the pier. There was some sort of stage set up with some very funky live band which I would have happily stayed and watched but Davies was running ahead crazily laughing into the wind and hiding behind every object possible to jump out and shout ‘boo!’ at me. There was also some sort of Ferrari gathering with added Lambourginis, must have been about 100 of them all parked or revving up, so we enjoyed walking past them too. Then we met with Ady and Tarly.
They’d had a lovely couple of hours walking round the Marina. They’d been in all the designer clothes and handbag shops trying on silly hats, walked round some market stalls and generally enjoyed each others’ company so that was nice too.
We then went over to my parents to give Frazer his cards and presents – however depsite being there til nearly 7pm he was still in bed recovering from a very heavy night out last night (I guess if you are single and childless you get to celebrate 30 very heavily like that!). The children had tea there and we’re going over there again for lunch tomorrow too.
Tonight we have watched the Prince’s Trust thing, sporting our 3D glasses which Davies of course was very interested in, had a lovely curry and are about to head off to bed. My turn to get up in the morning 🙁
It was fun, glad you both enjoyed it too. My turn to get up tomorrow too, didn’t get a real lie-in this weekend, what with worrying about Sleepy Cat this morning!
Freya is now a keen Lush devotee I think.
Comment by Ali — 20 May 2006 @ 11:20 pm
should think so too! 🙂 it was the pink glittery froth that did it wasn’t it? Ah how I clearly remember my first Lush experience, Guildford, 1998. I’d heard of them from my magazines but never experienced it before. Walking down the street my nose was titilated by the most divine scent imaginable. Like a modern day Bisto Kid I followed the trail, smeared my hands with all sorts of delights and came away with about 50 quids worth. I’ve since done Chester, Manchester, Brighton, Reading, Carnaby Street, Stratford, Chichester, Dublin, Lakeside…. if I won the lottery I’d go into one of the shops and just have two of absolutely everything 😀
Comment by Nic — 21 May 2006 @ 9:29 am
Blimey! So you quite like Lush then?
Comment by Ali — 21 May 2006 @ 2:42 pm