A quality evening, Lamby.

Drove a very long way to drop in on friends, just to be different and in an attempt to scupper my bad reputation, turned up early. The gay coloured Shadeymobile is doing strange things at the moment in the engine reliability department, but made it anyway. Drank an outrageous amount of coffee and had most enjoyable conversation before my mate's LoH made it over from work and we cracked the beers and ordered the pizzas. Sunk a large amount of beer and a frankly scandalous amount of wine before bailing out at stupid o clock, well past everybody's bedtime. Was frankly amazed at just how fast the evening went, got there at around half four and it was nine before I knew it. Corking evening, folks. Lots talked about, batteries recharged lots. I realise that it's actually seriously bad for me being here on my own all the time; I'm craving company, and a night drinking foolish amounts of falling down juice with very good mates is a vital tonic. No wonder I've been a grump.

Eventually dared to face the roads, the afternoon after. Popped into friendly territory to make a delivery, then had a major shopping splurge; one black suit procured for next week's unpleasantness. Also looks pretty damned funky for informal use, think I'm going to enjoy that. Also visited the pet emporium to obtain replacement magnets, Giz is on his spare on for tripping the elecronic cat flap so in case he loses this one too, more have to be sourced. The only problem with shopping was that there's not an O2 shop where I was, so I'm going to have to wait 'til next week to upgrade my phone to something super smart and sexy. Came back to housework and fridge moving, but you don't want to hear about that. I'm superkeen to start on my lounge, and are having to restrain my hand to start trashing things in there before I've sorted the bathroom. Planning's already advanced, I'm thinking about moving the computer down there on a wireless network - just for the sheer variety of it, plus I'm sick and tired of this box room for working in! Got my mate down south who knows about sparkying tapped to do my bathroom wiring, so that'll be a few quid saved, I can move this mess of a house on a bit. Yay! Then maybe I can get the damned place sorted and sold, I can be on my own just as effectively in nicer places than where I am living, thank you very much !