Monday, April 21

one dog knight

As it was my birthday, and as a dry run for the conference festivities, I decided to give the non-Erdinger Weissbier another try. It is growing on me and I managed a whole third of a bottle without getting silly. What a shame they don't make an alco-free version.

Bumped into the deifheids yesterday, fortunately it was in a noisy cafe so nobody could be heard (thus giving deifheids an insight into what it's like for the rest of us). Visited three art galleries. After a lifetime of philistinism, I'm learning to enjoy pictures, though I still haven't a clue about art.



The mother outlaw sent me a parcel with a hat and a book of the most appalling poetry. Both of which I would blog if I could be bothered. The partner in bliss gave me a tiny camera, which'll be handy for photographing other presenters at the conference.

Spent most of this morning swimming 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles for imperialists), then slept all afternoon. A balanced day.

Life In Cold Blood ep 2 tonight. I'm cooking snags, spuds and spinach. I wonder what catering arrangements hotboy has made for July.

9 comments:

  1. Albert? Happy birthday! That's a long swim. I couldn't swim that length, so well done. Are you still wearing the water wings? The only food I cater is breid and soup. No one else will eat it, the soup. Don't know why. Hotboy

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  2. Albert? Is that you? How tiny a camera is it? You're cooking snags? Is that like you're cooking snucks? The rest of you must have sags a long time ago. I know! A horse that's fallen over is a snag! Still, better than eating snails, I suppose. Nails wouldn't help! Hotboy p.s. No great news from the London Book Fair. What kind of agent can't sell a book about Tibet at the moment? The kind that would take me as a client!

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  3. Hotters - maybe the agent's been got at by China.

    A snag is what the Aussies call a sausage.

    How can I put it in blissheid measures? The camera's the size of a packet of Embassy Regal. A 10, not a twenty.

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  4. Belated happy birthday! Hope to benefit here from your tiny camera, though slightly disappointed that it's yet too big to fit up your nose or down a plughole. More slug and dog photos, please, in your new year.

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  5. Herzlichen Glueckwunsch zum Geburtstag, Rob. Welcher ist es denn, wenn man fragen darf? I understood all words with -heid at the end, having difficulties with snugs, spugs and plugs though.

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  6. Ion - I'll keep an eye out for more slug porn

    Cosima - vielen Dank. Ich fahre bald nach Deutschland, und werde von da aus fotografisch bloggen

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  7. I say!

    Three Dog Night were quite a successful band.

    This may not help.

    MM III

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  8. MM - that's probably where I went wrong - mama didn't tell me not to come.

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  9. Happy belated birthday!

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