Back in London for the weekend, had some beers with Liam and TJ on Friday night and watched sillyness on the tellybox (The Guild season 1). Was nice to have a chillout and chat at home. Solid episode of Dollhouse, but not anything hugely engaging or ground breaking, which is a bit irritating. Reminded me of the Heart of Gold episode of Firefly. Nice, a couple of good character moments but nothing very special. It’s hard to root for Echo when she’s a different character each week — easier to root for Boyd. Slowly though we’re seeing traces of Echo’s personality. I have a suspicion that we’re in for Angel but in reverse - she’ll break out of the Dollhouse (think W&H) and then go on the run with Alpha as her true love and the other actives chasing her. Then people will root for her and her personality until she’s wiped again and the status quo continues. Nice Topher line though: “If she got any more relaxed she’d be ooze”. We shall see. Joss penned episode “The Man on the Street” is next week, let’s hope that that ups the ratings a little. Apparently it’s a shift in the style of the thing and they all keep saying it’s where it gets good. Plus Ballard gets to meet Echo for the first time Chilled out at home on Saturday — some Blu Rays arrived, so we watched MIB just for the lulz. Out for dinner with moogal, mickstar, Tom, Maz and his bloke. Went to The Yard as The Apprentice was fully booked. (no really, the tens of empty tables were our imagination) and Hoxton Bar and Grill had a 45 minute wait. Explained the length of a yard to moo, he settled for a quarter but then regretted it afterwards. Fatty Wandered a bit afterwards but everything was either charging entry or stupidly busy. Wasn’t helped by Mickey being a fussy tart and proclaiming “I come here for the gays, I don’t want to be in a straight bar”. I don’t think he gets Shoreditch’s metrosexuality Waited for 35 minutes for a bus. Spent most of that time missing Berlin’s public transport system. Home then sleeps. Woke up on Sunday rather uncharacteristically late for me (11ish) then headed out to Limehouse. Foiled once more by buses we gave up and went to Canary Wharf for lunch at GBK. I’m less and less impressed by there each time I go. I think next time it’s Burger King for me, where I can get two whopper meals for the price of a burger Justin accompanied us for a bit too - was good to see him, he’s been zooming about in America. Turns out that we think we’ve both visited the same mall in Tampa now. Random factoids Back to the airport for my 7:05 flight to Berlin. Got back to a freezing flat as the heating had died again. That’s three times now. London is sunny, warm, springlike and nice, Berlin is overcast, cold and wet. Bah Moving to Charlottenburg on Friday to a flat that’s not on the ground floor and has broadband. Can’t wait! Just bought a month long travelcard. €72. Slightly better value for money than London I feel