Gentleman of Leisure

Had various things which I knew I'd remember to blog, and have now of course forgotten. So, the basics - am now redunded, exiting to tears, Prosecco and the best Christmas card ever (a 3D Santa's workshop!). Went for tea and Erte and then on to a young people's indie disco, an experience made enjoyable only by the young people, although this being a free night in Kilburn they were sharing the space with non-young Irish drunks, who to their credit were mostly exhibiting a confused tolerance of the event. Last night, the debut concert by The 18 Carat Love Affair, starring Steve 586 (who now looks like Matt Berry, and that's a compliment), Jim Rhesus and the newly de-Fosca'd hospitalsoup because otherwise she would find the number of bands of which she's member dropping to dangerously low levels. Way, way more together than any band has a right to be on a first gig, starting off with two songs sufficiently pop that I already felt I knew them just from having been there in time for the soundcheck, and then topping them with the set closer. Because being named after an Associates song is good, but why not then have a song whose lyrics all come from Doctor Who classic The Daemons too?
And then on to a Christmas party where I may conceivably have drunk too much.

Oh, and has anybody else been getting passive-aggressive mails from store cards which seem to have gone a bit bunny boiler?
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