Apologies. It was my birthday and I got so wrapped up in me, me, me that I completely forgot that it was also my friend Alan's birthday (I did text him), Tony Blair's birthday (didn't text him) and George Clooney's (wanted to text him). And so as penance I've posted these pictures ;0)
...and also to my mate Alan, George Clooney, Bob Seger, Tony Blair and if they were still alive Rudolph Valentino, Orson Welles and Sigmund Freud.
Blimey where to start. Already eaten nearly a whole packet of Montezuma's tiny tasty turtles, part of the mountain of chocolate Mosh bought me from my favourite chocolate shop. There's a slab of plain chocolate stuffed with whole brazils, after dinner chocolate dollops and my favourite, vegan truffles, to enjoy.
Got a great stash of other pressies including:
The latter works surprisingly well. In fact it's brilliant. Once I've copied it into my iTunes I'll post a track or two.
My surprise evening out is tickets for Seasick Steve which I'm very excited about as his last London gig had sold out. Then in a fit of spontaneity matched with good timing, Mosh found out that Gogol Bordello are playing London at the end of the month and booked tickets. (That takes this month's gig count up to three!).
To tickle my newly found meat taste buds I got:
* Mosh's French not mine. He did A-level, I scraped a grade 4 CSE
Just had my first Skype conversation!
My friend Alan is working in Geneva for three years and suggested I get set up so we can chat for free. It's taken me months, as usual, to actually get round to downloading all the right software and getting registered and set up.
Anyway a week or so has gone by without me really knowing how the whole thing actually works and then low and behold, I'm sat here on my sofa surfing the web and a little box pops up saying Alan's online and wants to talk.
A quick click of button and we are talking. No headphones or handsets just through the speakers and in-built microphone (which I didn't know my computer had). Talking to the lap top is weird but a little picture of Alan pops up which helps.
Definitely recommend it.
Now just need Rachel in Moscow and Megs in New Zealand to get set up.