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News of the weekend

I was Oop North over the weekend. And bloody hell, it was cold! I'm very glad I took my big woolly jumper.
It was a weekend of much movement, On Thursday I went to Durham and stayed with Jean and Roger, which was lovely. Had a nice long conversation with Jean about comics and books and writing and stuff, which we haven't been able to do for far too long. I also wandered around Durham with Jean and bought myself three second hand Iain Banks books from a second hand bookshop - obviously. The really good thing about them was that they actually looked completely new. Nice clean covers and no spine-breakage. So, at long last, I've got my own copies of The Wasp Factory and The Bridge(I've read them before, but it's nice to have copies of my own to read again.) I also got Walking on Glass which I haven't read before and know pretty much nothing about. Which is nice.

On Friday, I went up to Newcastle to see my mother and John Bird, her partner. It was mom's birthday on Thursday, but we decided that I'd wait until Friday to see her, because I wasn't going to get there until after 9.00 and that would pretty much knacker going out for dinner to celebrate.

Actually, it's lunch time now. So I'm going to go and eat and then return to this afterwards...