Chinese floater
Proceedings for Elliot S’ birthday celebrations kicked off last night at a fine Chinese restaurant in the Isle of Dogs. I arrived early, so thought it best to go to Elliot’s gaff. Only I couldn’t remember the exact way and got a little lost. Not madly lost, just took the first left at one point instead of the second.
Realising my error at the very end of the road, I headed back the way I came. At the exact same time, Elliot and his lady friend, Camille P, were walking down from the second left towards the corner of the first - meaning we ended up walking towards each other. Only, they didn’t look up to see me, so I held open my coat, gyrated madly in front of them and made wild animal noises once we were all up close. Excellently, this made the both of them jump… and got disapproving looks from passers by.
Ah, well maybe you had to be there.
Anyway, after the meal most of us made our way to a bar somewhere in Greenwich, where I chatted at length with Sam S. and his lady friend, Kate ¿. Now, I get on mighty well with Sam at Racodac. But I think we got a better understanding of each other through our long talk. He even offered to give me a lift all the way home to Brommers from Greenwich (where he lives), having missed the last train. Bless.
I stayed over at Elliot’s (a The Streets look-alike apparently) in the end, though. And the walk back to his was notably funny. We didn’t get in until gone 4:00 AM, and not to bed until the Skutters were changing the wall colours from Ocean Grey to Military Grey (at 5:05 AM).
Then today proper, we watched a couple of bits of DVDs, I beat Elliot at a movie quiz, and we went for a wander in Canary Wharf. My journey home wasn’t great: A lorry driver tried driving his lorry through a gap narrower than the vehicle, causing a standstill on the road for two hours. When there was enough room for my bus to reverse, the route was diverted to somewhere in the opposite direction. So I got off at the first place I recognised and got another bus.
Forgetting that though, it’s been a weekend of many laughs. And many “Bonnetts”.