Life of Wiley

Had a really boring night last night; went to the cinema intending to go and see School of Rock but couldn’t be bothered to queue, so came home, popped up to the local shops and got a take-away curry and few bottles of beer and watched 8-Mile again, then spent some time making some cosmetic changes to the band’s website which took me to 2.15am!

The curry was pretty good; Lou and I had been meaning to try this place out for a while, since it went under new management. Didn’t much care for the way they did their Samosas, but the Karahi Chicken was pretty good. If you live in the Watford area, it’s the Prince of Bengal on Langley Way and is more of a true restaurant now but still does take-aways. It must be fairly good as the restaurant was busy.

So, to make up for the boring night last night I thought retail therapy was in order. First of all I had to go and buy a holiday. This had huge potential for disaster since Louise is away, but I think I’ve come up trumps. We’re off to the Algarve for a week in a pink (yes pink!) villa. Looks pretty cool actually and it’s not far from the beach and the airport is less than an hour away (these things are important considerations if you’ve got young children and by the time we go away we’ll have a new 5 month old!) It also came with car hire so we’re not limited to one place.

The rest of the shopping was a new and enlightening experience for me, as I spent the morning trawling charity shops looking for books and CDs. I came away with 3 books, a Bill Bryson travelogue, a book called Trumpet which is about a jazz trumpeter (always a good one to get for a trumpet player:) and the classic The Thirty-Nine Steps. I also got 2 CDs, a children’s story CD of Cinderella for Euan and then the steal of the day, The Darkness’s Permission to Land for £3.25! I watched their performance on the Brits (yes I know, the show was appalling) and thought they were hilarious, I’ve no doubt in my mind that they are taking the mickey out of the 70s/80s glam rock scene; brilliant stuff!

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