Medway Machinations

Sometimes my blog entries seem to get later and  later Is it because of my full social or intellectual life that i lead in which tempus fugit and the lack of such  impels me to burn the midnight oil?

I have had a full day that started in the ubiquitous Office , then meeting cousin and  handing over forty smackers towards bills and suchlike, and then a trip over to Medway to conduct some covert shops. I did a couple in Rochester and one in Chatham, with bouts of drinking foaming ale in between.

I picked up five CD's for a fiver and then a shirt and a couple of books, followed by a cafe meal at Boomers, and a final knees up at Weatherpersons in Rochester. Had three half pints of that American Stones Double Hopped IPA (8.5 % ABV) at the Golden Lion pub. They made a right clanger with the first two halves by only charging £1.25 instead of £1.99 a half. I kept quiet and merrily sipped them!

The CD's for your information are -

Kanye West - Late Registration
Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love
Omara Portuondo - Buena Vista Club Presents ..
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Daryl Hall & John Oates - The Essential Collection


I might do a longer post tomorrow as i really do need to sleep so that i will be fresh for the morning.

Ready To Go

Up early ready for the day ahead. I am travelling down to the Sussex coast to see some friends and my brother.

Taking the red suitcase with me as i have a few items to take including Xmas presents that in the end , for whatever reasons, did not get posted. Sometimes i do not trust our postage system when they send a perfectly good modem from one of my companies which when i unpacked it was cracked on the base with a huge split.

I have completed my three reports from yesterday and thus apart from a wash and packing the suitcase i am almost ready to go. Phil is picking me up at ten this morning, so I have time on my hands to relax.

The Lunch Club Is Back

After a very dull rain soaked morning on the way to Brighton the weather had cleared up by the afternoon turning sunny if a  little windy. We had a lovely lunch at Bellota , which for three tapas each i found very filing. We washed it down with the  house wine and a couple of lagers.

For under a tenner for three tapas it is very good value indeed. Having coffee, lager and vino bumps up the bill a bit if you want to push out the boat. Mark was once again the convivial host and took photos of the gathered party.




Taken with Mike's phone.



Taken with my Canon camera.

Left to right - Lesley, Phil,Myself,Graeme and my brother, Mike.

We shall meet up again in mid March.

Forgotten Things

A few things i did forget to bring from Teynham today was my two books i have been reading , plus those two classical CD;s Phil and I were going to listen to on the way down. As i shall be doing a few charity shops this week anyway i shall have to pick up some books then, Meanwhile, tomorrow I have a covert shop in Brighton to do, and thus GC and I shall have a brekkie at Cafe Rouge on a two for one offer.

At some point tomorrow i shall nip over to see my brother as he has some moleskin notebooks for me and i do love using these notebooks for all kinds of things., including a quick precis of a job scenario or details of a covert shop, as well as lists, such as books to look out for, or music albums and Cd's.

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