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Aug. 16th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaSaturday.
I was planning to have a pleasant easy going weekend. I think I succeeded. I visited my ex-flatmate and his wife. Haven't seen them since they moved in, but since I was free, they invited me round for dinner. Very nice dinner it was too, including a very nice salad for starter, roast beef, very nicely done veg. And the nice bottle of Chilean Red wine that I received some time ago and was looking for a chance to use.
Had American style pancakes for breakfast the next morning. Damn fine pancakes. Although covered in butter and syrup.
Mrs. ex-flatmate is American. It seems Cryptic crosswords aren't all that common there, so I got to show off my superior brain by giving a brief introduction to Cryptic crosswords. Always fun. Except I'm not sure if I was a lot of help. I explained how the clues work, and why one was an anagram, and another was some simple wordplay, and it sort of registered, but I think the rules might have come across as a little bizarre. Especially with misdirecting clues. That and I'm no crossword master.
All in all a pleasant evening. It's just a shame Streatham is so hard to got to.
Sunday.
I said goodbye and thanks and set off to visit Pinky and the Brain. Played Go. Watched episode 3 (or episode 2 depending on whether the pilot is one or two episodes) of Lost.
I really don't get Go. I sort of understand, but I lost so completely and horrendously and there's no way the Brain is that much better a player than me. We've only played a handful of games each so his level of skill can't be that great. Ah well. I'll have to practice. Some day I'll win a game.
I was planning to have a pleasant easy going weekend. I think I succeeded. I visited my ex-flatmate and his wife. Haven't seen them since they moved in, but since I was free, they invited me round for dinner. Very nice dinner it was too, including a very nice salad for starter, roast beef, very nicely done veg. And the nice bottle of Chilean Red wine that I received some time ago and was looking for a chance to use.
Had American style pancakes for breakfast the next morning. Damn fine pancakes. Although covered in butter and syrup.
Mrs. ex-flatmate is American. It seems Cryptic crosswords aren't all that common there, so I got to show off my superior brain by giving a brief introduction to Cryptic crosswords. Always fun. Except I'm not sure if I was a lot of help. I explained how the clues work, and why one was an anagram, and another was some simple wordplay, and it sort of registered, but I think the rules might have come across as a little bizarre. Especially with misdirecting clues. That and I'm no crossword master.
All in all a pleasant evening. It's just a shame Streatham is so hard to got to.
Sunday.
I said goodbye and thanks and set off to visit Pinky and the Brain. Played Go. Watched episode 3 (or episode 2 depending on whether the pilot is one or two episodes) of Lost.
I really don't get Go. I sort of understand, but I lost so completely and horrendously and there's no way the Brain is that much better a player than me. We've only played a handful of games each so his level of skill can't be that great. Ah well. I'll have to practice. Some day I'll win a game.
