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London Fun

To the UCL Bloomsbury theatre, on Friday night, for some rather entertaining comedy, compered by the unexpectedly funny Simon Amstell (he off of Popworld), and featuring various funny people (including the excellent Rob Rouse, and the actor Kevin Eldon).

To the UCL Bloomsbury theatre, on Saturday night, to retrieve Sal’s purse, which she appears to have left on the bar the previous night. Unfortunately, she didn’t realise she’d even lost it until we reached Vauxhall station, on our way to drinks in Clapham, on Saturday afternoon, and I therefore had to dash back to check the flat in Camden, before we established that, yes, it was indeed still at the venue, and, yes, it did indeed still contain all her credit cards, her driving license, various other bits of non essential plastic and thirty five quid. Fringe benefit of attending a charidee gig, I suppose.

I had hoped to catch some of the FA Cup Final on Saturday, but in the end, despite originally leaving the house at 3, just as it kicked off, the three trips across central London that I ended up making meant that I didn’t arrive at the pub we were heading for in Clapham until some twenty minutes after the end of the game (this despite extra time and penalties). Oh well, doesn’t sound like I missed much anyway.

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On The Subject of Gig Tickets…

…for events taking place at the end of next month, I expect the Glastonbury tickets will be on their way out soon. Frankly, I’m not at all surprised about this. When I got my glasto ticket, I immediately applied for one of these pointless pieces of plastic, and said card arrived some weeks ago. As far as my experience goes, I can’t see any possible way that anyone could get around the system–can you?

– Complete online form on Citizen Card website, providing details of a solicitor to act as a referee.
– Receive email welcoming me to the Citizen Card scheme, asking me to EMAIL a photo of myself for the card and a scan of my signature.
– Receive card three weeks later.
– Referee is not called at any point (and even if he had been, he wouldn’t have seen the photo or signature anyway).

As I said, flawless.

“There’s no way fraudsters will get through the system” – official festival website.

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Bad Joke

“No Cameras or Recorders”, it says in large black print on the tickets for next month’s U2 gig that I collected from the post depot this morning.*

Well that scuppers my plans to join in with my own wind instrument-based solo to “With Or Without You”. I’m not sure I want to go anymore, frankly.

* Oh, so our friendly neighbourhood postman can manage to attempt to deliver items requiring a signature at 7:30 am on a Saturday morning, banging on the door and waking me up a bit but not enough for me to get up and actually answer the door, but he can’t manage to do the same on a week day when it might actually be useful…