All entries for Friday 26 October 2007

Old Flat Reunion

Last weekend, John and I invited the old flats to return to CV4 for a weekend reunion but unfortunately nobody came back in time for any union events! So everyone came back for a nice weekend in each other's company. It was primarily all Kathy's fault because she did something quite silly and booked her coach tickets for Sunday instead of Saturday. This meant she and Andy missed out on some quality 'Nat and John' time. We did have Rich and Lotte around on Saturday which was nice. For the journey to pick up Lotte from the station, we had made a special mix-tape for Rich - which was the Baywatch theme tune twenty three times on the same CD - ah how we enjoyed that and got sick of it very quickly. That Saturday evening was basically everyone getting excited about the F1 qualifying result, and then getting horrifically dissapointed with the rugby world cup final.

Sunday came with the arrival of Kandy and Paul. I slaved over the stove with a lot of help to make the Sunday roast - Chicken and Beef. Pavel came around to ensure the kitchen was a fire-hazard and to watch "Kimi win the championship". Unfortunately Pavel's prophecy became true and my dream of seeing Hamilton become a champion in his first year didn't happen. To be honest Hamilton championship shouldn't be expected. I was fully prepared that the poo could hit the fan and Kimi's small chance to clinch it was very real indeed. Unfortunately the large proportion of Ferrari fans (Will and Pavel) were killing the mood all evening for the Hamilton supporters. Paul has now vowed not to watch sports for a whole month after such a bad weekend.

Well it was nice to have so many people around just to hang out for a while. It meant that in a space of a month I'd seen most of the old flatmates! Not bad. Sachit didn't turn up on time, I expect him to arrive 1 week late...

On Thursday I decided to pop down to Oxford to visit Lotte since she had a free afternoon (once in a blue moon opportunity)! I nearly didn't go because of the short time left of the day and the fact that when you live in the bubble you end up becoming quite inert. So despite the fact that only a month ago I was jumping between 4 countries in a week, a 41min train ride to another count-y started to seem like a "big" journey! It was a gloomy looking day and it was just an afternoon of walking around, hanging out, seeing uni places, catching up and meeting her friends. Unfortunately Alistair the Wonchie was unavailable (and the trip was incredible short notice). It was a pleasant trip with the obvious poor train services in-between. I think it may be safe to start assuming all UK trains are delayed by 20mins - well maybe not all trains, but specifically the one you want to get on!

Nathaniel Ho : 26 Oct 2007 10:23 |  Tags: Friends General |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem