A good friend of mine that I’ve known since school is getting married. We left it right to the last minute to confirm we were planning to go and then realised that we’d lost the invitation…so I left a really wanky message on Adrian’s (the groom-to-be) voice mail and he sent me a lovely e-mail saying that was fine. He also listed a few people who were also coming. Each one of them was listed together with their S\/O. Before I knew what I was doing I’d replied saying:
\n“Damn we’re all couples. This is what the 30s is like I suppose. Kids next. Then divorce. Then lots of self-indulgent destructive alcoholism until the funerals all start.”
\ntoo late – I sent it…sorry Adrian – I didn’t mean to piss quite so heavily and widely over the kindling.<\/p>\n
Nice weekend tho’. On saturday I met up with Alex for a “Freedom for Palestine” rally. We stood it out for an hour or so, which is pretty good I think, and then went on a magical mystery tour that involved Maplin, the Pub and the Science Museum. Superb.<\/p>\n
Humphrey the parrot is still very nervous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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