Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Friday evening I duly scampered into London and met up with Rik and Carol at the O'Neill's on Euston Rd, just down from King's Cross and a few minutes walk from the restaurant. I got there early and managed to inhale a pint of cider rather more rapidly than was wise. Which is my excuse for how I managed to knock over the half Carol bought me when they arrived. It was practically full too so I'm afraid things got a bit soggy. Wisely, I opted not to get a refill!

I got the funniest birthday present from Rik and Carol - a lumberjack doll that, by dint of poking and prodding, turns into a werewolf! Basically the two dolls are joined and one gets stuffed inside the other. It's harder to do than it sounds but is very funny and I found the werewolf doll to be kinda cute and fuzzy :)

Once I'd finished giggling, we headed off to Ta-zu's, a restaurant recommended by the lovely cookwitch. cookwitch? Your recommendation was spot on, I owe you one! The food was delicious and we all ate far too much of it! I had honey roast pork ribs to start, while the other two had spring rolls with sweet chilli dipping sauce. Carol amused us all by scraping up all the bits of chilli in the sauce dish onto her last few bites of spring roll and then spending the next five minutes with her eyes watering and smoke coming out of her ears. It was a bit potent, apparently *snickers*. For the main course, I succumbed to the Peking Duck - gorgeous! while Rik and Carol shared a number of dishes and Rik managed to flummox me completely by eating chicken. This is the guy I always make sure there are vegetarian options on the menu for when I book a place *eyes the Rikster*

We finally waddled off, very full, and they escorted me to King's Cross where I saw there was an express departing in twenty minutes. As there was time, I took them down to the suburban platforms so they could see the Platform 9 and 3 quarters arch and trolley that BR have set up for the Harry Potter fans. Then we said our goodbyes and I scampered off to my train (which wasn't on the suburban lines for a wonder) and Rik & Carol wended their way back to Russell Square and their hotel. All in all, a very good evening indeed!

Saturday was spent being a total slob in front of the TV, watching football and other foolish things, and there was pottering around online. I downloaded and watched the latest BSG - woah nellie! That's shaping up to be a corker of a season finale next week!

Today was almost more of the same, except that I was up and out before noon - that's a shock, I know - and did my weekly food shop. Which meant I could spent the afternoon slobbing out secure in the knowledge there was milk for tea and snacks for peckish Mitchy's :)

*stretches* And now I'm just winding down, having spent the last few hours watching the last of the MacGyver S3 DVD discs, so that I can get stuck into the Season 4 dvds next week. If I don't get sidetracked by the Starsky and Hutch stuff. Or Serenity :D