Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Never trust a barber with a mullet

I started the weekend as I often do, running late. I still arrived earlier than I was expected, and met our companion on the steps of redkitty23s flat. So we got talking and waited for our hostess to arrive.

The three of us headed out to Blenheim Palace to see it ‘dressed for christmas’, which seemed to consist of a tree in the entrance hall and a polishing off of the finest hogging irons. Still, the library was incredible, when I’m rich I’m going to live in a house with a gallery in its library.

Finding our way into the gift shop on the way out of the palace proved too much of a challenge in the end, so we went for a stroll around the town instead – where we found a dreadfully Chap-ish glove shop, sadly closing down. Where /is/ a gent supposed to get his deerstalker without such shops?

We stopped at the Trout on the way back into town for desert, a maze of twisty little rooms with real fires and a particularly slow desert delivery. Worth waiting for, though, I hear.

Then back to play with Dash before heading out to meet with Cat and edling, for a strange evening out. Good to catch up with them, but for some reason I’d expected there to be some more people there. Oxford, you’re all useless! We headed off to the Zodiac for the indie night, where the music was quite listenable but the crowd really made no sense at all – I have nothing in common with these people, full of their beer and drugs and hormones. I guess I’ve moved on.

Crashed at Eds place before hitting the road in the morning (afternoon, technically) when the hunger struck, and headed up to sushidogs tea party. Where everyone has an lj-tag of one sort or another (mostly forgotten in a haze of good buns). I witnessed an unsuccessful attempt at palming off a badger and awed at the lopsided funky mode, and was impressed by Firewater.

And now, I’m getting repeating nightmares about dropping puppies :(


5 comments

    • Partly ‘cos I was leaving it to Cat to do the organising (which might not have been a particularly good idea) and partly ‘cos I thought you were out of town anyway…which probably pushes the uselessness onto me but I’m in denial. Besides, you’ve been known to venture outside the place without great provocation, so its only a matter of time before we both end up in the same place, the rest of ’em won’t even go out in their own town.

      Next time…its only a 1.5 hours drive, I’ll be back.

      • Bah. I’m not sure about Cat’s organisational abilities. Owing to a small crisis a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t make it out to a cocktail drinking session she’d organised because Kate was up – which turned out to be a good thing, since it had been cancelled and no one had told me :)

        I could have been around on Saturday, but hadn’t heard hide nor hair of visiting or clubbing plans :(

        There is a rumour that I’m supposed to be travelling to Cambridge to visit , but I’m being a bit poor about organising it. Guess it’ll be after Christmas now :)

        • I think given the state of Oxford peoples organisational skills its a miracle anyone is still actually in touch with anyone else….so you’ll just have to get organised about coming to Cambridge instead! Crashspace available if necessary, but you might have to fight your way through some (mostly empty) boxes to get to it.

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