July 2003 Archives
aka the Carson City Lock Up Kit List compiled after Burning Man 2002 (that blog's bust, and I don't know how to fix it - keeps telling me permissions denied in rusty red letters....)
BLUE LID 1 - kitchen
3 bottle openers
7 knives
7 forks
3 spoons
3 wooden spoons
frying pan
saucepan
sieve
9 plates
washing up liquid
tupperware pot
scrubbing brush
coffee pot
kettle
chopping board
4-pint water bottle
stove
2 crisp bag top clips
3 litres vodka
1 litre tanqueray gin
1 litre jack daniel's
1 silver dish
RED LID 1 - camping misc
5 blue ground sheets
2 plastic drop cloths
2 flags
3 pairs heavy duty gloves
2 pairs mid duty gloves
1 pair warm gloves
bells
light bulbs
braces
4 goggles
11 dust masks
string
4 clamps
filament
3 polar shield emergency blankets
lots of tape
glitter spray/gel
feathers
brown and red spray paint
light stick
2 poor sprays
gold tape
wd40
mallet
rope
ski goggles
permanent markers
sunglasses
emergency poncho
4 steel 9 inch pegs
RED LID 2 - electrics & misc
3 5-gangs
toolkit
tons of fairy lights
5 power extentions
bike inner tube
hookup speaker wire
fairy light blinker
phono splitter
male-male stereo miniplug lead
2 small clamps
2 outside bare lights
3 night lights with handles & hooks
1 really long extension cable
spare fairy bulbs
cable ties
baling wire
vaseline
9 pocket kleenex
eye drops (2004)
firestarter
burn relief spray
cards & dice
suntan lotion
4 novels, low quality
1 idler, summer 2002 issue
2 frisbees
4 9v sguare batteries
4 C batteries
13 AAA batteries
BLUE COOLER 1 - food
salt
ziploc bags
freezer bags (no zips)
black bin bags
gatorade mix, orange
gatorade mix, fruit punch
spaghetti
angostura bitters
lea & perrin's original worcestershire sauce
popping corn
brown sugar
english tea bags
camomile tea bags
lime cordial
1 litre pimm's
4 tins tuna
1 bag Peet's french roast ground coffee
1 bag raisins
4 toilet rolls
RED LID 3
2 parachutes
2 good sprays
2 small speakers
tupperware
2 Virgin blankets
2 x 28 qt coolers
2 x 36
1 x 100
4 speakers in the coolers
NOT IN BOXES:
3 roll mats
1 glitterball in blanket
1 large lamp
1 small pink chair
2 deckchairs
2 hard folding chairs
4 camp chairs
1 5-gal water cooler
2-bulb black light
2 long lamp poles
4 large pieces of white card
2 bikes
2 blankets
1 megaphone plus 2 sets batteries
1 spare tatty yoz hat
pvc poles, hubs and rebar
TO BUY FOR NEXT TIME:
clothes pegs
crockery drainer
hanging shelves/organiser
adjustable spanner
kitchen knives
strong bin bags
shower water
AA batteries
music tapes
DON'T BUY NEXT YEAR:
ziploc bags
loo rolls
gatorade
salt
sugar
washing up liquid
weak bin bags
OTHER NOTES
Carson lockup has landfill/recycling one mile away
I am heading over to TJBR's tonight and going out for an ethiopian meal with Jo's best friend Ali, who's off to Ethiopia to do 2 years vso. It should be interesting to hear what she thinks of it, and how she go on/into VSO. She's a graphic designer like Jo - I thought VSO only wanted doctors, teachers and techies. Ali's going to be teaching English to civil engineering students, and is genning up on recommended report writing styles. Tom's pointed her in the direction of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
Had a lovely weekend with Laura, who has a definite bump (due 18 Jan 2004),
and is loving every minute of impending motherhood, pottering around Bath on Saturday afternoon with Lizzie, albeit in torrential rain - incredible! - and Sunday exploring Sudeley Castle with Ian, where a Sealed Knot weekend was in full swing. Lots of booming cannon and musket fires, providing noise and smells to conjure up the Civil War days of yore.
And today (Monday) it's glorious sunshine...
But we didn't let it get us down! Actually, Saturday was dry all day, but quite cloudy and decidedly cool in the evening.... and it did rain quite hard on Sunday, and it was decidedly overcast all afternoon.
Phil and I trained it out on Friday, picnicing on The Usual en route, and were met at the station by Jay and Fi. First encounter, but I feel like we got on really well and the weekend flew by, whilst managing to be relaxing too.
Saturday morning we feasted on croissants, chatted and vegged with the papers before strolling out for lunch en route to the Ashton Court festival. Somehow everyone managed to meet up within about half an hour of crossing Clifton Suspension Bridge, and staked a claim to a spot not too far from the food stalls and loos at the top of the natural amphitheatre sloping down to the main stage. It was a blustery afternoon, with more cloud than sunshine, and once darkness fell and the Plump DJs started their set, shivers had set in. Not even Cherry Bakewells could see them off! Robert Plant provided no incentive to linger, and we made our way homewards, catching a taxi on White Ladies Road.
We took Sunday at a more leisurely pace, brunching on fry-up al fresco and then settling in to read the papers prior to a late afternoon showing of Hulk. Pasta for tea and then a micra rally road race to get us to Temple Meads for the 9.30pm train to London.
Lovely weekend.
The top photo on the hits list for Week 28, 2003 is..... ::drum roll::
with 120 hits!
Cap'n Gyford, Seaman Stef and Cabin boy Jim, all able seamen reporting for duty is still getting lots of attention, coming in at No 2 on this week's list, with 26 hits - but it has been viewed a massive (for me!) 893 times since I put it up there last September.
I bought a copy of the Rough Guide to Chile today to start my planning - 16 weeks and counting!
Catriona arrived late Friday afternoon, and we headed out to CJ and drank large G&Ts (thereby redressing the reduced intake/opportunities due to H being in South America) on the balcony whilst nibbling on olives and dips, before adjourning indoors to watch Big Brother. We're both addicts, so that made it a no brainer on the "what shall we do" front.
10 am Saturday morning we met up with Phil at the Royal Festival Hall and looked at their little exhibition on building the bridges across to Embankment / Charing Cross, and drank cold drinks at the Film Cafe overlooking the river.
Cat and I then wandered up to Tate Modern, over to St Paul's (decided not to pay £6.50 to go in) and then back to the river - past a large film unit on the main road to Blackfriars - with famous actors, but we couldn't remember their names. One was Bridget Jones' dad. They were all dressed up in Pride & Prejudice type gear. All very London!!!
Took the tube to Kew Gardens via Victoria where Cat bought some flip flops to counter her rubbing sandals, and spent the afternoon soaking up yet more sun (aka getting burned) wandering around the gardens, exploring the hot houses (more humid than outside, so coming out into the hot Oz heat was really rather pleasant!), including the aquatic plants (and fish - safely behind glass barriers...!) displays, and chilling out in the shade by the japanese gardens.
Got back to CJ around 6ish, drank beers and ate crisps on the roof terrace and opted for easy tea at Banana Leaf - apparently when we'd tried to go there before it'd been full. We had better luck this time, but were both too knackered to go out drinking on Northcote Road (honestly!!) preferring to retire to Barnard Raod, and veg in front of the telly, leafing through photo albums and trying not to plan more RTW trips...
Sunday featured a lazy morning with fresh baked sultana bread and freshly squeezed OJ, followed by the National Picture Gallery and more walking (i.e. all the way back along the river and via Battersea Park). More sun, but we had H's surplus factor 25 sunscreen on, so that was ok.
At 11.30pm I got an sms from Cat saying that she has got back to Leeds to find her annoying housemate had used the last teabag and milk. So that's decided her to look for a house. Looks like we'll get invited to the house warming!!
Barney's not six until 15 July, but Tom and Jo had a birthday party for him a few weekends early as Tom's in the US this week. Jo sent me the photos today.
Looks like everyone - especially Tom and James - had a lovely time, and those photos of the boxes really really remind me of birthday parties dad organised for Tom and I when we were 5/6/7/8.
phew! Phil and I had a very lazy weekend at the cottage, only really "doing" anything on Sat afternoon, when we went into Hereford and bought food goodies from the "european" market they were holding the the city centre - it was a mix of a farmer's market and one of those french travelling ones. Good food all round!
Then motored up to Leominster, where we mooched the antique shoppes and Phil bought a few pieces of blue/white stripe cornishware crockery.
Resolutely cloudy all the time, and we didn't get a sloping front train on the journey back!!
It comes to something when all I want to do is get to the end of my working day and zip off to Habitat to see if the stripey duvet set is in their 50% off sale (starts today!).
I don't think this misalignment of my focus has been helped by the fact that in french this morning we discussed the regulation applying to the Soldes in France, which seems to be far more rigourous than in the UK. For instance, in France to advertise an X% sale:
1. you have to be able to prove that for the month previous to the sale the prices were such that the sale price is X% less;
2. for any item in the sale, you have to offer all sizes, all colours, all styles;
3. have the sale within the permitted periods
Oh, and the other reason why Habitat duvet sets persist at the forefront of my mind is that my current work focus is CD Narrative International, and Reviewing the Legal & Costs Grade Structure.
:yawn: SeeWhatIMean? :yawn:
and finally, that Habitat website makes me feel really, really queasy.
Right, time to talk CD Nar. Int. with TFW....
This is my nephew's first written thank you letter to me - good to see that he's inherited the famous Loosemore scrawl :)
Please feel free to provide suggested decipers/tranlsations in the Comment facility!
Browsing Channel 4's BB web site over an Ampersands lunch of cream of onion soup, the article Lisa Lets Slip prompted me to google in search of an Orkney newspaper to see if Cameron's comment that "The only thing I've thought about was that our local paper and I've thought there's a chance I'll be in it..." had turned out to be true.
Google led me to The Orcadian online, which has lots and lots of coverage of "Orkney's Cameron Stout".
And I discover that he's "has a passion for Africa and has visited three times in the past ... Burundi, Cape Town and Johannesburg" and "has not had a relationship for 11 years".
I always have had a soft spot for Scotsmen....
Dad's arrived and we reviewed my list of DIY jobs last night before training it down to Wandworth Town to buy supplies at Homebase. I splashed out on a new shower curtain - more in keeping with "urban" theme of bathroom (please ignore flowery motif tiles...) - which was half price (woo!), and a purple table cloth (end of line at £5). Bargains galore!
At lunchtime i'm going to be dashing off over to BHS to see if they have light fittings for kitchen as dad is going to replace the strip light with a pendant/bulb fitting.
After all that assessing and buying we headed out to The Gaylord for indian - the only diners there! Drank 2 pints of kingfisher each - my dad leading me astray!!! well, it was hot/humid, and we'd achieved a lot in the evening.