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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2011-01-22 05:59 pm

Ordinary Boys

A friend of mine is leaving London for New York; he got a well paid job in an arts centre over there. He asked [livejournal.com profile] wink_martindale and I if we'd like to buy his Wii and games. I asked how much he wanted for them? He understood that I wanted to buy everything and dropped on Wink's lap a box with the whole lot. We already had a borrowed Wii from my landlady so now we currently have an excess of video game consoles in the house. I'm starting to think I don't want any of them - it's just more distraction from the stuff I need to do (study horticulture, write Mills & Boons novels, become a millionaire).

We went for a walk this morning to find a café where we could sit, read the papers and write in our journals. We chose the Rich Mix because it's always empty, has nice big windows that give you a view of Bethnal Green road and nobody bothers you if your coffee mug is empty. I briefly left to buy today's Guardian from a corner shop and walked past Preston from The Ordinary Boys. He's tiny! He went into a new hipster café with three friends. The Rich Mix couldn't attract hipsters even if it tried, bless.

We then hit the local second-hand bookshops for Paul Auster's Timbuktu (for my bookclub) but couldn't find anything. Went to my gym, watched an episode of a new brasilian soap opera while eating toast with peanut butter and now I faff around online while Wink naps on the couch. He was meant to be making carrot cake for us. I might wake him up in a sec.


[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We've been having trouble with stuff not arriving at our door (the postwoman has a predilection for leaving our packages outside it...) so I thought it might be nice to buy it from a small bookshop for a change. I'm also trying to stop buying from places like Amazon and Tesco because they really don't need my money.