Party!

So here I am, back at my desk.

This weekend, though, ramtops and I went out! To that Lunnon!! To a party!!11! This may not seem extraordinary behaviour to you, but believe me it is: dragging us out of the house at all is unlikely; getting us to travel 120 miles to a social gathering is (August bank holiday aside¹) vanishingly unlikely, Still, we've decided to at least try to be less hermit-like, so off we drove on Saturday to Croxley and margotmetroland and drpete's party.

And it was good.

Even the weather was fine for us, though if the lunar eclipse was visible, I don't think anyone thought to look up for it. I've no idea who most of the people I talked to are, but I enjoyed talking to you all anyhow; the chances of me remembering names are tiny at the best of times, and after the quantities of fizz that I necked, they reduce to well below the noise threshold. I did at least finally meet easterbunny, aca and the splendid ebonyrae, and also sneerpout! yay! whom I've wanted to meet for pretty much as long as I've been on LJ.

Huge thanks too to ladymoonray, who ferried us, with tamaranth, back to our ¿hotel? in the early hours; a generous and very welcome gift.

We drove back home yesterday feeling a lot less bad than we deserved, and collapsed in an exhausted slump on our sofa for the rest of the day, departing only as far as the kitchen to prepare a pasta bake based on the portion of the veg sauce ramtops extracted from her meatball preparations last week. No further drink was taken.

¹ August bank holiday, of course, is summer camp in deepest Wales chez geoffcampbell and not to be missed under any circumstances.