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Karen ([personal profile] karen2205) wrote2004-09-22 01:12 pm

Coffee in Borders week three

Lovely to see everyone again. (Oh, you want a name check.... right, we had [livejournal.com profile] fluffymark, [livejournal.com profile] hairyears, [livejournal.com profile] mstevens, [livejournal.com profile] neonchameleon, [livejournal.com profile] nitoda and [livejournal.com profile] wuluf).

I didn't go to the careers talk I was intending to go to, I decided I needed some comfort reading time and went and curled up in Borders children's section with some Tamora Pierce books....there's something relaxing and comforting in reading books like that, not sure I could explain it though. It's like reading Chalet School books (and yes, I did look for those but I couldn't find any). I kept wandering round checking that no one had arrived and at about 7.40pm I wandered over to find everyone was about.

I was feeling very tired - but had a good time - learnt lots about astrophysics and techniques for dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses. Mark, Nile and I left Borders at 9.40pm in frantic search of food - luckily we found an open Weatherspoons and all had something to eat there. It was practically midnight when I got home and even later by the time I finally got to sleep. I think if we have a food expedition next week, we'll have to leave earlier rather than that late, because I can't keep getting home so late on a Tuesday, I'm going to make myself ill. I feel walking zombieesque right now.

On unrelated matters - can anyone point me in the direction of indoor swimming pools in London, somewhere on a direct tube line between Vauxhall and Kensal Green (ie. going through Oxford Circus) (Alternatively, Waterloo would be OK, 'cos Vauxhall - Waterloo takes 3-4 minutes by train and the Bakerloo line goes through there). Open Guides didn't have anything, google wasn't very helpful and I don't know enough about the administrative boundaries within the capital that I can make effective use of the borough websites eg. I know Brent have pools but they aren't anywhere sensible, nor are the ones in Kensington & Chelsea and I don't know which other bodies cover the relevant bits of London, or how to find that out.

Oh and can someone tell me why my nectarines have been disappearing - on Friday I had three, on Monday I had two, when I looked today there was only one and I *know* I didn't eat them (mainly because eating them is a messy operation and I tend to remember doing it) - I can't believe anyone would steal one - but this seems to be what's happened, even though there are piles of much more useful things to steal round my desk (bits for Guide welcome packs, disposable barbecques etc).

[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com 2004-09-22 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
They went swimming. Keep it in a sealed box and when the others launch a night expedition to come and find it, follow them.