Notes From The Journey
Thursday, 12 December, 2002
Just a quick one today - I'm fairly busy at work at the moment, hence the lack of any journal-keeping for the last week or so. It's hell, I tell you!
Anyway, I've won a competition. It was at The Alien Online a web-based SF magazine. I've won a copy of Context by John Meaney which is very nice. I got Context - to which this is the sequel - in proof form when I worked at Waterstone's, so not paying for this is also a good thing. And, considering some of the other books in the contest were not exactly my cup of tea, this is a Very Good Thing indeed.
Here's the Amazon link if you fancy buying it.
Posted by stephen @ 09:34 AM GMT [Link]
Tuesday, 3 December, 2002
Where was I? Oh yes. At mother's, about to go for a curry.
(Lunch was adequate, thank you for asking - leek and potato pie.)
We went to mom's favourite Indian restaurant - Khan's on Heaton Road. It's rather lucky that it's her favourite, because it's only five minutes walk away. It is very, very nice. Big portions of very well made food. I had Chicken something or other. And enjoyed it very much. Then it was back home again for birthday cake. Sean had made an amazing cake, which had something like 4 bars of Lindt 85% chocolate in it. I'm going to have to get the recipe from him. And then get Candy to make it...
On Saturday, we went to Whitley Bay. There was a French Market there. We went expecting it be a bit crappy with Geordie folk pretending to be French - "Bonjour, like, y'knaa" - but it wasn't. They were genuine French-types. I even got to speak French to them, asking for cheese and wine and stuff like that. So that was fun. If very cold and damp... But that's what you expect from Newcastle.
On Saturday evening, dad came and collected me in his very posh new car. He got this from the money he got in a settlement over an injury he received whilst working. Which isn't bad at all. He drove me up to Wooler. Once there, I got fed. Basically. Lots and lots of lovely food - roast lamb, sticky toffee pudding, sponge cake, meringues and ooohhh... loads of stuff. That screwed up the whole 'cutting down on food' thing which I was sort of doing.
Sunday was a very lazy day. I basically read my book. It would have been nice to go for a walk, but the weather was far too crappy. So I didn't.
Sunday evening, caught the train back home, finished my book (Carter Beats the Devil) and started another one (The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents) and then came home, snogged Candy and went to bed.
Then got up the next morning and went to work. Exciting, eh?Posted by stephen @ 02:01 PM GMT [Link]
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...
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