Hey ho, I’m back online and in a new flat :-).
So we’ve moved, in Sarf’ Lahndahn again, Stockwell to be exact 1 minute from the tube stop and close to a very nice local called The Priory Arms which has real ale, good food, proper wines and lots of German and Belgian beer, nice. We’ve been to the Mexican restaurant in The Dogstar (El Panzon) three times already. Lino fecking loves it after we first went to it during our flat hunt.
So what about the tinternet? Well I rings BT to get our account moved over, all fine and dandy "but oh wait" says they to me "there isn’t a BT line in there anymore". Now we were told there was but who am I to argue maybe the last tenants changed provider. However after setting it all up and organising the engineer to come out (a £125 fee no less) the landlord and estate agents were pretty adamant that there was a BT line. So anyway this evening I get the BT bill for the line etc and decide I may as well plug in my BTHomehub and just see if we have a phoneline, I’ll let you guess what happened next (hint: I’m online now). It had not worked previously but hadn’t checked it since Thursday when I set up the move and the engineer aint been over yet, not a happy bunny rabbit. So I spend an hour on the phone this evening and got nothing they couldn’t even find my account, so first thing tomorrow, there is a bollocking a-going on. Also a plain refund aint going to be enough.
In other news I’m on a real Primordial kick after picking up their new album before Xmas and seeing them on Saturday (review and photos pending) and getting The Gathering Wilderness at it has only proved how damn good they are. Proper Irish metal, no twee bits just real Metal but informed by Ireland and her history. I should have gotten into them years ago, you need to go get out there and buy To The Nameless Dead. Also on Saturday it was a bit of an all Irish fete, with Mael Mordha as support and Sentinel doing the merch/stall at the gig. Which meant I could pick up the new Scald EP Fluke (p.s. yes that linked site is actually in Latin) which is just awesome but was worth the price alone for the Scald communion wafer. Yes that’s right they have communion wafer branded with the Scald logo, it’s so fecking class will get pics up during the week.
I’m off to France (Clermont Ferrand, yeah I don’t know either) next week which actually means I can’t go see Queens Of The Stone Age and I have a ticket for it which after my fabulous trip to Bulgaria (seriously I saw nothing of the place) I better at least have some fun in France. Actually Bulgaria was cool for one thing though one of the guys I work with has a BA platinum card so gets into the business lounge and can take one guest 😀 Hee Hee they let me into the business lounge, free food, free drinks, free booze (wine, beer, great range of spirits) it was madness just grabbed a power point and some snacks and barely noticed I was in an airport till I had to get on the plane.
Sarah’s actually in the UK at the mo so I can ring her on my mobile but it looks like she’s indisposed (drinking) as I aint heard from her tonight yet (speak of the devil just got a text apparently we’ll talk tomorrow) but we chatted earlier so tis OK. She’s over next week for The Smashing Pumpkins in the O2 no other real plans but think we’ll be going for lunch with J and his "mot" Milli on the Sunday.
Well I’m going to duck out of here. I’ll try and keep blogging just been busy lately … oh wait beer festival on Thurs/Fri in Battersea … this could be a busy week …
Later days,
Halo.
eh college trip, of course i was drinkin!!! hmmm sneck lifter – “Sneck Lifter (5.1% ABV) – Launched in 1990 as a winter beer and moved into all year round in 1995. “Sneck” is a northern word for door latch. A sneck lifter is a man’s last sixpence, allowing him to lift the pub’s door latch and purchase a pint, whereupon he hopes to make enough friends that they may offer to buy him further rounds.” I likes me beer with a bit of history!