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Finally finished!
9 November 2005 19:00Finally got the chance to update on here - too tired Monday and too busy Tuesday.
The major event of the weekend (for us anyway) was that we finally finished the kitchen!!! yay!!!
Saturday daytime, Rob fitted the plinths and did all the fiddly bits, while I got started on the big tidy-up; 6 months of dust and sawdust to clean up and boxes of all our toys to put back on their shelves in the living room. Not got all the furniture back from storage yet, so it all looks so empty - like someone's broken in and tidied up!
Saturday night, wanted to see fireworks but couldn't be arsed to go to a display. Instead, we drove to Old Redding (a hill nearby), via the chipshop and sat in the carpark on the common, eating chips whilst watching all the firework displays in North-west London! The view was incredible, very apocalyptic. Unsurprisingly, we weren't the only ones with the same idea and by 8pm there were queues to get into the carpark.
Rob thought it very nice of London to let off fireworks in celebration of us finishing the kitchen. :-)
Sunday, went to Black Celebration at the Mean Fiddler (LA2). Weren't bothered about the earlier bands, so we went for lunch at the Ben Crouch first and were nearly tempted not to leave - so cosy, dark and out of the nasty weather. Got there in time to see Deathboy (still not impressed by them), then Katscan (better than I remembered, wouldn't mind seeing again). Became a bit confused by the line-up as we thought Sheep on Drugs were next but the band that were on stage were far too competant to be them (turned out to be Inertia).
Then Sheep on Drugs, just as bad as usual, with the female singer smashed out of her skull as usual. Rico I quite enjoyed, a bit of a wee Scottish Trent Reznor! And This Morn' Omina were enjoyably bouncy.
Following all the line-up changes, Mesh were headlining and were the only band left of the original line-up that I wanted to see and I wasn't disappointed, still on excellent form. Wonderful combination of atmospheric and bounciness! They played a couple of new tracks - no radical change from the usual of course.
Still baffled how Mesh have such a large male following though, all stocky balding men who look like engineering students! I'd class Mesh's music as being a bit girly, so maybe it brings out a latent feminine side in men!
Received tickets in post for Combichrist in Dec - will finally get to see them live and am really looking forward to it. Their music has been a bit of a grower on me and now I'm hooked, nearly on the same par for me as Icon of Coil, just nearly though!
The major event of the weekend (for us anyway) was that we finally finished the kitchen!!! yay!!!
Saturday daytime, Rob fitted the plinths and did all the fiddly bits, while I got started on the big tidy-up; 6 months of dust and sawdust to clean up and boxes of all our toys to put back on their shelves in the living room. Not got all the furniture back from storage yet, so it all looks so empty - like someone's broken in and tidied up!
Saturday night, wanted to see fireworks but couldn't be arsed to go to a display. Instead, we drove to Old Redding (a hill nearby), via the chipshop and sat in the carpark on the common, eating chips whilst watching all the firework displays in North-west London! The view was incredible, very apocalyptic. Unsurprisingly, we weren't the only ones with the same idea and by 8pm there were queues to get into the carpark.
Rob thought it very nice of London to let off fireworks in celebration of us finishing the kitchen. :-)
Sunday, went to Black Celebration at the Mean Fiddler (LA2). Weren't bothered about the earlier bands, so we went for lunch at the Ben Crouch first and were nearly tempted not to leave - so cosy, dark and out of the nasty weather. Got there in time to see Deathboy (still not impressed by them), then Katscan (better than I remembered, wouldn't mind seeing again). Became a bit confused by the line-up as we thought Sheep on Drugs were next but the band that were on stage were far too competant to be them (turned out to be Inertia).
Then Sheep on Drugs, just as bad as usual, with the female singer smashed out of her skull as usual. Rico I quite enjoyed, a bit of a wee Scottish Trent Reznor! And This Morn' Omina were enjoyably bouncy.
Following all the line-up changes, Mesh were headlining and were the only band left of the original line-up that I wanted to see and I wasn't disappointed, still on excellent form. Wonderful combination of atmospheric and bounciness! They played a couple of new tracks - no radical change from the usual of course.
Still baffled how Mesh have such a large male following though, all stocky balding men who look like engineering students! I'd class Mesh's music as being a bit girly, so maybe it brings out a latent feminine side in men!
Received tickets in post for Combichrist in Dec - will finally get to see them live and am really looking forward to it. Their music has been a bit of a grower on me and now I'm hooked, nearly on the same par for me as Icon of Coil, just nearly though!
