The weekend starts here!

[andrewducker]

Just back from Safeway, from whence I have retrieved 10 shirts and a pair of trousers, all dry-cleaned and nicely-pressed. Not bad for £13.

I'm on the 5pm train to the Lake District, arriving around 6:30 (I think) - it's almost close enough to make it worth popping down for the day.

Saturday is going to revolve around weddings, which which undoubtably be very, very dull (I've been to precisely one fun wedding and that was when I was about 13 and it was one of those fun Jewish ones with lots of dancing and merriment). fortunately some of my cousins are interesting, so I'll be kept amused by that.

Sunday I'm hanging around for lunch and then leaping on a mid-afternoon train back up.

I feel like I have nothing terribly interesting to say, but I'm sure I'll think of something eventually.

Oh, went to Festival with Ed yesterday, taking in a talk by Robert Winston (british tv-scientist) at the book festival. He chatted meanderingly about cloning and genetic modification and instinct. Never really settled in any one area, but it was all amusing. This was followed by three writers talking about the ethics of writing books that had factual (or factually-inspired) novels, and how much accuracy was reasonable. We then wandered down to the UGC and saw a talk by Music Video company Hammer & Tongs (both of them), in which they talked us through several music videos (there's and others). Very amusing, they were both relaxed raconteurs and the videos were generally of high quality.

There will be move film watching next week!

Comments

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope that you change your trousers more than once a fortnight!

Doing it yourself would be nearly free - you are always saying you are skint. You could buy 2 books or got to the cinema twice or buy a DVD for that. Every week.

I'm just such a skinflint. It took me ages to get a tumbledryer as drying on a rack is free. But then I never turn the heating on, so stuff took forever to dry.

We have to put some heating on in the winter now, as a few years of next to none (just a fire in the living room - with free wood!) was starting to encourage a bit of damp.

Mind you I don't iron either (although on the few occasions that I do it's not nearly the trial it used to seem), so I suppose it could, just, maybe be worth it to you.

[andrewducker]

I've never dry-cleaned my trousers or shirts before. I've jusyt worn them crumpled....

And I refuse to Iron, it's boring as hell, would mean buying an iron and the amount it would save me a month is teeny. I've also mostly sorted my money problems, so I'm not that worried.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

You see, to me, £50-odd a month isn't a teeny amount. Not that I have any money problems - I'm just stingy :-)

[andrewducker]

It's not £50 a month. It was ten shirts and the trousers for £13. I only wear 4 shirts a week, and the trousers were the expensive part, so it's only actually £16 a month (maybe £18).

It's worth 40p a day not to iron shirts for me :->

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Do you have a casual Friday or something?

I'm still not sure of your trouser strategy - I think I'm pushing it at 2 pairs a week :-)

[andrewducker]

Aah, my trousers seem to cope fine without ironing - at the most their crumpledness is minoir and they're black, so it's fairly unnoticable.

And yes, I have casual friday.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I hope that means that you do change them more often than fortnightly :-)

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.

I have a strict 13 day rotation rule.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

:-) Andy's rot13 trousers.....