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braai, bitching, and birthday

by J at 10:30 pm on 10.05.2004Comments Off
filed under: mundane mayhem

busy weekend.

friday night, impromptu drinks with the saffas at a local tooting pub, where there was too much vodka and not enough food to be had.

saturday, were meant to be painting my room at my old flat, but by the time we roused ourselves, went to the gym (the best cure for a hangover), went shopping for paint, went shopping for carrot cake ingredients, and got back to the flat, next doors braai (bbq) was in full swing so we spent the evening gorging ourselves on mountains of meat, drinking tons of beer, and listening to heavy metal.

sunday was a tiring day. got up and went to the old flat, and spent 9 hours trying to paint white over pink. three bits of hard won knowledge to impart:

1. you get what you pay for when buying paint
2. no matter what the label says, white covers *nothing* in one coat, except perhaps white
3. never paint anything you don’t own outright

after a long hard day of manual labour, came home and cooked dinner, and shredded my knuckles making a carrot cake for…

monday, jonno’s 27th bday (yup, you read that number right…)

champagne and cake for breakfast, followed by a lovely trip to greenwich for some sun and lunch, and a movie and more cake in the evening. all in all, not a bad way to spend your birthday…

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