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Robin Monday, June 30, 2003
posted by Robin at 14:59  

I've just spent the weekend moving house, and I'm a bit of a nervous wreck after all the stress and exertion. Today being the first morning at my new abode, I should have been rejoicing at living near Denmark Hill station so I wouldn't have to start each day at the mercy of the inefficiencies of Thameslink, the world's worst rail service. Unfortunately today I had to go to pick up a prescription from the doctor, whose surgery is - you guessed it - right next to Lowbrow Junction Thameslink station. I had to wait for the receptionist who was having a gossip with her pal, and the stupid old cow made me miss the train. Sure enough there was a 35-minute wait until the next train, so it was back to the usual nightmare.

The day got worse - my all-day high-powered meeting with broadcast engineers was interrupted by a phone call from a very cross Nina. My first act as her new housemate was to lock her in the house on the morning of her job interview, and she was spitting teeth. I did my grovelling bit, but was soon diverted to a more pressing issue. During the power-meeting, the pen I was nervously chewing leaked and covered my hand in ink and turned my teeth black. Oh joy.

Am now in therapy.


Robin
posted by Robin at 14:56  

I spent all day Saturday moving house. Constant exertion and the lack of a spare moment to have the smallest snack meant I was running on adrenalin and no nourishment - and those who know my appetite will appreciate the gravity of this state of affairs.

At the end of the day I arrived late at Moggy's birthday meal in Dulwich. We waited for a long time for our starters. When the pan- fried ackee with red lentil cake and avocado and tomato salsa finally arrived I was suffering from low blood-sugar and was beginning to feel delirious with hunger, so I started to tuck in heartily.

I only manage a spoonful when Lady Misfortune smiled on me: the waitress, attempting to serve someone with wine, picked up the wine bottle which knocked over my wine glass. The glass shattered and covered my pan-fried ackee with red lentil cake in broken glass, rendering the food inedible.


Robin Monday, June 09, 2003
posted by Robin at 14:48  

Opened the living room window today to water my window box. As the bedroom window was open at the back of the house, and it was a windy day, a huge gust of wind blasted unexpectedly through the house and blew the window box off the ledge. It fell down a storey into the basement and smashed.

It put me in mind of the bowl of petunias falling to its death over the planet Magrathea in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "Oh no, not again."




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