Events Of The Last 24 Hours

[poliphilo]

We had a good time. I knew we would once we actually stepped out over the threshold.

Tony and we have several friends in common. At the reception we found ourselves seated with a group of people who all more or less knew one another. The couple we are closest to had a five year old when we last saw them; they now have a teenager- plus a kid we never met before.  Of course the kids dominated the conversation. One small boy was tearing up napkins to make himself first a hat, then a mask, then a moustache and beard. The daughter who was a five year old but is now a teenager didn't remember us but politely said it was because she has a very bad memory. I said it would be a marvel if she remembered anything that happened when she was five. She said she didn't remember much about being a child, but she did have a memory of being a baby and lying in her cot. I said that that was pretty impressive. 

We stayed in the Preston Travel Lodge overnight. They give you a buffet breakfast for £7.50. On the drive back we listened to a 1948 recording of Gielgud's Hamlet- old fashioned but still vivid and intelligent and- of course- beautifully spoken . Then we arrived home to find our newly installed boiler wasn't working. We contacted those responsible and they have things in hand. Ailz suggested I put a hat on because most of one's body heat escapes through the top of one's head. And you know what? She's right! Here I am, sitting at the computer, with no heating on, wearing a hat like a tea cosy and I'm all toasty-warm.

Comments

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I love that photo! How great that you had fun after all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They're lovely people.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I so glad you had fun. When I lived in Greece there was no central heating in the winters so inside at night could sometimes get a little nippy. I often wore a hat when I was reading, imaging myself a descendant of Mr Pickwick.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We didn't have central heating when I was growning up. I remember having a big, electric heater in my room- but I don't think it was on very often. In winter we'd all take hot water bottles to bed.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you two enjoyed the wedding. It is nice to get together with people after years have passed, to catch up and so on.
Your drive home sounds like a high point. Gielgud! Oh, yes!
Oh, do I remember the freezing cold bedroom in my foster home - five years of freezing, bed wetting and midnight nosebleeds! When we finally moved home with parents we had central oil heat, 24 hours a day and suddenly no more bedwetting, no more nosebleeds.
I sleep warm now when indoors, but during the years when son K. was living home his Dad, me and K. often went camping. I never had a problem staying warm in a tent and sleeping bag back then before arthritis became a big problem.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Gielgud's Hamlet is legendary. It's great that someone had the sense to record it.

I don't think I was ever so cold in winter or as hot in summer as I was as a child.

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

The wedding I went to was good fun too. I made a speech! Not best man, as there was no best man, but an open mic thing. I was crazy nervous before, but had some material in mind, and when it went down, it went down well.

A friend of mine is having a wedding in Niigata soon, which is far enough away that the total cost to go the wedding will be about 350 pounds! Makes me hanker for Travel Lodge's and owning a car (Shinkansen is crazy expensive).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The best man at this wedding is very shy- and gave us about a minute's worth of speech. A good thing too. No-one really wants to listen to amateur stand-up when they could be filling their face.

We're going to Tom Fairweather's wedding in Hampshire in July. That'll be an expensive jaunt.

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

Tomas is getting married? There seems to be a real spate of marriages amongst people I know at the moment. There've been none in my friends in the five years I've been here- and now all of a sudden 3 are coming along at the same time. Just a coincidence? Hmm, so they'd have us believe...

(Trust no-one...)