Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Closer to retirement than birth!
At last I get the chance to add a new post. Lots of things have occurred since I saw James (the last post below).
Did a quiz in Godalming the next day where our team far exceeded our expectations and finished third. The next day I saw Saints win at Norwich. Norwich is a fine city and I always enjoy going there and will miss it next year if we do go up. Lots of random hugging in the Saints end and belief from the fans we will make the play-offs.
Last week (at the beginning of it) was fairly quiet. However, on Thursday I turned 33. To celebrate a ‘birthday crawl’ of London was had on the Friday before seeing the band The Ataris. I was disappointed with them when I saw them last year in Kilburn, however this time they were much better ending their set with the title track from their excellent ‘So Long Astoria’ album. The gig was a little strange as there was no front lighting so very dark. With our crawl, this was actually the middle of three bands we saw in that day as one of the bars visited was ‘Aint Nothing But A Blues Bar’ where the duo they had on did a good version of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Oh Well’. After the Ataris we went down to Earlsfield where a covers band was ending their set in the Puzzle pub.
Saturday another more local crawl was done as the ‘official birthday bash’. Starting off in the Red Lion in Cheam we took advantage of the outdoor area enjoying the sunshine. We then headed into Sutton via the Harrow, a great pub where money was won on the quiz machine. Sutton had its moments with The Old Bank, Smollenskys and All Bar One being visited before ending up in O’Neills where I chatted to a nice girl 13 years younger than myself. Scary. O’Neills had a lively band on playing the Artic Monkeys Dancefloor song, although my recollection is exceptionally hazy at this point.
Sunday, the celebrations continued as Saints confirmed their play-off position with a storming victory against Southend. If you’re all going to Wembley…….
Needless to say that Monday was a bit of a comedown, feeling exceptionally crappy. Did stay up to watch the snooker which finished at 1am this morning.
Have a fairly social week this week aswell starting off with a trip to the cinema for Spider-Man 3. Just hope I can stay awake.
Did a quiz in Godalming the next day where our team far exceeded our expectations and finished third. The next day I saw Saints win at Norwich. Norwich is a fine city and I always enjoy going there and will miss it next year if we do go up. Lots of random hugging in the Saints end and belief from the fans we will make the play-offs.
Last week (at the beginning of it) was fairly quiet. However, on Thursday I turned 33. To celebrate a ‘birthday crawl’ of London was had on the Friday before seeing the band The Ataris. I was disappointed with them when I saw them last year in Kilburn, however this time they were much better ending their set with the title track from their excellent ‘So Long Astoria’ album. The gig was a little strange as there was no front lighting so very dark. With our crawl, this was actually the middle of three bands we saw in that day as one of the bars visited was ‘Aint Nothing But A Blues Bar’ where the duo they had on did a good version of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Oh Well’. After the Ataris we went down to Earlsfield where a covers band was ending their set in the Puzzle pub.
Saturday another more local crawl was done as the ‘official birthday bash’. Starting off in the Red Lion in Cheam we took advantage of the outdoor area enjoying the sunshine. We then headed into Sutton via the Harrow, a great pub where money was won on the quiz machine. Sutton had its moments with The Old Bank, Smollenskys and All Bar One being visited before ending up in O’Neills where I chatted to a nice girl 13 years younger than myself. Scary. O’Neills had a lively band on playing the Artic Monkeys Dancefloor song, although my recollection is exceptionally hazy at this point.
Sunday, the celebrations continued as Saints confirmed their play-off position with a storming victory against Southend. If you’re all going to Wembley…….
Needless to say that Monday was a bit of a comedown, feeling exceptionally crappy. Did stay up to watch the snooker which finished at 1am this morning.
Have a fairly social week this week aswell starting off with a trip to the cinema for Spider-Man 3. Just hope I can stay awake.
# posted by Rich @ 3:28 PM 
