Last Monday of the year, here's to better times.
Monday 28 December 2020
Musical Monday #283
Monday 21 December 2020
Musical Monday #282
This is the version of the song I know, so whenever I hear it play at Xmas, I always fall into the same trap as Homer.
Wednesday 16 December 2020
Musical Monday #281
YouTube went down on Monday and I was too busy on Tuesday, so here is this week's festive Musical Monday... on Wednesday.
Monday 7 December 2020
Musical Monday #280
It's December somehow, so it's time for some seasonal musical numbers.
To start us off here is
Marley And Marley from The Muppet Christmas Carol
Performed by Dave Goelz and Jerry Nelson (with Michael Caine)
Written by Paul Williams.
Monday 30 November 2020
Musical Monday #279
Monday 23 November 2020
Musical Monday #278
This film is so weird.
You Give A Little Love from Bugsy Malone
Monday 16 November 2020
Musical Monday #277
For context, this homage to 'Moses Supposes' is being sung by figments of her imagination. I think it is also the last song that original Greg ever sings, even though it isn't really him.
Monday 9 November 2020
Musical Monday #276
Example of my personality: I sided with Bagheera as a kid.
Monday 2 November 2020
Musical Monday #275
Monday 26 October 2020
Musical Monday #274
Don't worry, we'll see the weekend again soon.
Monday 19 October 2020
Musical Monday #273
Monday 12 October 2020
Musical Monday #272
Monday 5 October 2020
Musical Monday #271
Monday 28 September 2020
Musical Monday #270
Sunday 27 September 2020
Rat Tales #6
Vizzini - criminal genius? |
Fezzik - mighty wrestler? |
Inigo - vengeful fencing master? |
Saturday 26 September 2020
Rat Tales #5
Vizzini tolerates your touch. |
Touch changed angle. Now she stab. |
Inigo likes this. |
Inigo has melted. (She will also start licking you.) |
Fezzik, ironically the cuddliest of the rats, does not give consent for cuddles. |
Monday 21 September 2020
Musical Monday #269
Monday 14 September 2020
Musical Monday #268
Monday 7 September 2020
Musical Monday #267
Monday 31 August 2020
Musical Monday #266
Monday 24 August 2020
Musical Monday #265
Monday 17 August 2020
Musical Monday #264
Monday 10 August 2020
Musical Monday #263
Monday 3 August 2020
Musical Monday #262
Monday 27 July 2020
Musical Monday #261
Monday 20 July 2020
Musical Monday #260
Monday 13 July 2020
Musical Monday #259
Monday 6 July 2020
Musical Monday #258
Monday 29 June 2020
Musical Monday #257
Monday 22 June 2020
Musical Monday #256
Monday 15 June 2020
Musical Monday #255
Monday 8 June 2020
Musical Monday #254
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Testing The Scarlet Pimpernel
Monday 1 June 2020
Musical Monday #253
Sunday 31 May 2020
Trigger
Saturday 30 May 2020
Face Blindness
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Friday 29 May 2020
Rat Tales #4
Thursday 28 May 2020
Brighton
We arrived on a Wednesday. Our first impression of Brighton was positive, because it was such an inclusive place that a homeless man was playing the piano in the train station. This image was shattered minutes later when the homeless man was evicted from the station and started screaming abuse at them.
I also couldn’t figure out how to get to the correct road from where we were because there was a surprise wall in the way. But eventually we managed to loop back around. We explored the shops in the North Laine area, where I bought some shoes from Vegetarian Shoes, despite the fact that they didn’t have my size, so now I have a very nice pair of shoes that are far too big and only fit if I am standing still. We also purchased some random bits (mostly out of sympathy) from The Captain Pig, which is a very small vegan shop, unfortunately placed not very far from a huge vegetarian shop. We also visited some bookshops and stuff.
So easy to browse. |
I seem to recall we ate lunch at Wai Kika Moo Kau and neither of us liked our food and it was quite overpriced.
We walked down to our hotel, via CEX, because this is our holiday tradition. If we stay somewhere with a DVD player, then we buy some random thing to watch while we are there. We chose the classic movie… Journey To The Center Of The Earth starring Brendan Fraser.
We stayed at the Oriental, which was nice enough, although twin rooms always feel like an afterthought. Our view was directly on to someone else's balcony covered in cigarettes and what I hope was a container of alcohol but might have been urine. Needless to say, we kept the blind drawn as much as possible.
We went to have dinner at Beelzebab at The Hope and Ruin, but it turns out this is an absolutely dinky pub and half the tables were reserved for the live music. I’m not sure whether we were allowed to sit there or not, but the rest of the place was packed. I didn’t have a backup plan and we just miserably hovered about. In the end, we decided to buy the food and eat it while we walked to our concert. However, it took ages for the food to be ready and by this time, a table had become free, so even though we had ordered ‘to go’ we ate in. We rushed the food and it wasn’t very nice anyway, so that whole experience wasn’t great.
Then we went on to the Brighton Dome Concert Hall where one of the security guards harassed The Housemate. However, the show was really good, because we love The Divine Comedy.
Office Politics Tour |
Then we went back to the hotel.
On the Thursday, we had a vegan breakfast at the hotel and then went down to Brighton Beach to admire it in the late autumn weather.
British Airways i360 |
West Pier |
We visited the Upside Down House, which was actually super fun.
The housemate got a drink at The Flour Pot Bakery, which took forever, and possibly we bought some kind of pasties, I can't recall now, and we bought ice creams from V360, although I was really confused because they were actually closed for the winter and their vegan ice cream machine had been moved into someone else’s bit, which was advertising fish and chips.
We went for a walk on Brighton Palace Pier
It was windy. |
and briefly looked around the Lanes but by this point, we were getting kind of bored and I didn’t have any specific shops in mind so then we just went on to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
This is the only photo we took in the entire museum. |
This was pretty disappointing and we were so worn out by this point that I don’t think either of us appreciated it.
So we headed back to the station, via Glazed for some vegan doughnuts. The Housemate got a nice vegan sausage roll at the station. And that is my brief tale of Brighton. We got home to our babies, who we had left alone over night for the first time.
I think that I was so stressed during the first part of the trip (The Housemate had no ID and I was afraid they would need it at the hotel) and then when dinner went wrong, and that bouncer got aggy for no reason, that I wasn’t really able to appreciate Brighton very much. Then we were so worn out on the second day and the museum was disappointing, and it’s all bloody uphill, and I missed my babies, that, aside from the show which was great, I didn’t really enjoy Brighton.
Which is a real shame, since it is so open and inclusive towards veganism and the LGBTQIA+ community and just people in general.
The Housemate liked it though.