Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

We started late today, neither of us managed to surface before nine and if the phone hadn't rung, I suspect I wouldn't have surfaced until much, much later than 10am :P

We didn't have any firm plans today beyond going to Stevenage FC to watch a football match this evening. With that in mind, we kept our activities local and went to the cinema in Stevenage to watch "The Queen". Excellent little movie, brilliant cast and an very intriguing look at the events around Diana's death from the Queen and Blair's PoV. They so totally had someone who worked with Blair working on that movie. In fact, I may have to make a separate post later reviewing it and discussing it, because it's left me with lots of thoughts and questions.

Afterwards, we wandered into the town centre, where I was mugged by some hot doughnuts (mmm!) and then we attacked Waterstones. I still had some book tokens to use, so I did :) Hee! I bought a new (to me) Spencer novel by Robert B. Parker, a new Donna Leon (yes, again) and "Temeraire", the dragon book everyone is raving about :)

We then wandered back to the car and drove over to the business park near the football ground, where we ate at a Harvester restaurant. Two cheeseburgers were duly dispatched with great enthusiasm and very nice they were too :) There was waddling back to the car and then we headed to the ground, which proved to be a short walk away. Tiny ground but perfectly adequate, and the stand we were in had seats, for which I was relieved. The game itself was fun, although the gap between the higher divisions and the Conference was easy to see - lots of hoofing the ball upfield and hoping, with occasional moments of skill. I'm happy to report Stevenage won the match 1-0, which made the evening even more enjoyable.

And now we're back home and relaxing. Well, I'm relaxing. jenni411 is attempting to repack her suitcase (should be amusing!) for tomorrow she heads into London to stay in a hotel until she goes home on Saturday. I'm in work tomorrow but I'll be joining her in London on Thursday and Friday. Thursday we're going to Buckingham Palace and then hopefully to see a show Thursday evening. Friday we're doing the Victoria and Albert museum and then meeting Rik and Carol at Bellini's for a meal Friday night. :) Should be lots of fun! Hee!