Saturday was intended to be a meeting lots of people day, but turned into a mooching around London day (through no fault of anybody's). The Forbidden Planet is
pants for its collection of anime and its fans (which couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding). However, I unexpectedly bumped into
omentide and
hrafen, which was
lovely after not seeing them for so long, and then wandered down to the Charing Cross Road and Cecil Court to investigate Books.
The place on the Charing Cross Road is run by Aziraphale; there's no doubt. He's middle aged, roundish, has blond curly hair and is camper than
ukporl. In comparison, Marchpane's in Cecil Court has an original Dalek and sold me a GMF for £10 (so I'm very happy). The Henty I picked up for a fiver is full of manly adoration as well, though it's more of a history lesson with made-up characters than anything else.
Okawari, in Chinatown, is the best Japaese restaurant I've ever been to. I had a bento box but could quite easily have eaten nothing but their mackerel sashimi until I exploded. I *need* to investigate my ice-cream amker and invent sesame seed icecream, too.
*Then*, I managed to find The Weaseldome on the first go, and met
indochine_uk and
hullfire.
Frolicking happened, as did
Catalogue Man posing and admiration of Weasel's
signed photo.
For the record,
indochine_uk and I can share a single-and-a-bit futon mattress *perfectly* comfortably ;p
Moveing on to Monday,
I met
moony. She rocks. Verily so. But before that, Weasel took me round Weaselville Cemetery, where I explained my version of goth to her. We found a
one-eyed teddy bear, the graves of
Cliff Richard and
Arthur Daley, the
Scaramanga family tomb, and some carved roses that looked like
a skull. Also, the most
evil bunny ever.
Anyway, then I went an
met Moony. Who is wonderful, and is invited to stay should U2 ever play Manchester (or in the north west generally).
We found a beautiful
old Bentley (though not a 1926 model), and she
thwarted me in my plans to convince the owner to sell it to me for 5p. Bah. There was pub food and anime discussions (in which
daegaer featured as Enabler-In-Chief), musings on HP Book 7, and then
sinking ducks in St. James' Park.
It was a wonderful weekend :)
(Thre are more photos in each of the photobucket galleries, but they didn't fit in the story.)