I am so very very tired and my throat hurts like fuck so this’ll be shortish... Friday Work do. Stood in packed pub for 4 hours because someone thought it’d be sensibe to eat at 9pm and go to the pub at 4:30pm after a meeting. Rah! No drink because I felt shitty Chatted to lots of people then got to witness the person who set up the company get his bar tab payment (for all of our drinks) denied (hur). Had taken a brief trip to Retox bar as we were all meant to be going there. Very posh/yuppy/expensive. Ah well Went to Belgos where they appeared to have forgotten we were coming. 45 of us stood in their reception. And no receptionists. Andy started randomly answering the phones...they shouldn’t let bosses have beers... Sat down (eventually). Were told that if we didn’t all shut up we’d not get any food. Which didn’t do anything to placate us. Were then told that if we didn’t shut the fuck up we’d not get any more beer. We all went a bit quieter. Julie (CTO type) got up on a chair to make a speech and the guys (not from our company) on the table next to us yelled “STRIP!” very fucking loudly. Cheeky cunts. Had salmon fishcake for starter, Surf n Turf (after Andy announced anyone ordering a Surf n Turf would instantly be getting a P45, half the company ordered one) and waffle for desert. Surf and Turf was a very nice (but NOT rare, not even medium, even though rare was requested) steak and half a damn lobster and a pair of nutcrackers. Fuuuuun.... Chris phoned when I was just munching waffle and said he’d be about half hour, so said my goodbyes and fucked off to the (wrong) station to meet him. After finding Marylebone in the cold and dark we zoomed off to Limehouse for the Swan. Was feeling pretty shite and tired so wasn’t really as much fun as I could have been - met up with abeneplacito, mogwai, mage and PoBK too. Saw some *awful* woman singing along to songs. (Stick to karaoke love!) Don’t really remember a huge amount about the evening other than mogs getting pissed and stroppy and me wanting to just get a cab home and ignore everyone else Saturday we eventually got out of bed a little later than intended and so did really fast xmas shopping then shot off to Ally Pally to watch people falling over on ice, then back to my flat for party (via Tesco and half their wine selection). Headed home where I was very tired and everyone else partied. Bah! Made a barbecue on my balcony at 11pm without setting fire to anything though. *impressed* Sunday Chris had set the alarm for 8am. Evil Chris. Reset it for 10am. Evil me. Eventually got up and went xmas shopping. Selfridges was pretty. Ate at Pizza Express Jazz Club. Yum. Home then sent Chris home too.