Slice of the Good Life

I won't be blogging over the weekend, I warn you now. I'm going away for the weekend.

My father's part of a few freemasonry lodges (they're nothing like the Dan Brown books ... they stopped cutting people's tongues out in 1985 at the latest ...) and one of them goes to Bournemouth every April/May for their Ladies Night (when all the men make a fuss of the women. Yes, it's archaic and masogenistic ... but 7 course dinners, dressing up, raising money for charities and being given a free gift just because you have boobs is actually pretty fun. Also, having some loud-mouth announce you to the room ...) Apparently it's stopping the Bournemouth tradition after this year, but this is also the first year kids are allowed, hence why I'm even going. I went a few years ago with my then-boyfriend, that was pretty cool. We got him a Kaiser Chief's tie to wear from the Carling Live 24 gig we'd been at the night before, but in the photo's the 'kaiser cheif' bit just looks like stripes.

So yeah, will be interesting. Won't be able to do the 'let's walk into Bournemouth city centre at 1am in tux's amongst the clubbers to get some chips/kebabs' tradition with my boy in tow ... but the shakeaways the morning after is a definite. I love shakeaways (and Millie's cookies. Both are in Lakeside, where I'm going tomorrow just beforehand. Hmmmmmm!)

And since you're so obviously wondering - I'm taking 'This Bleeding City' and 'The Girl Who Could Fly'. Plus my laptop, for proof-reading during naptime/boy's downtime tomorrow. And then, I'll be sending copies out - and if you haven't already read my atrocious writing (I do make Stefenie Meyer look good) and you want to ... comment on this post and I'll let you have the drivel too.