Catch Up
Trailwalker had its effect on my weight - I ended up polishing off the leftover eats and yesterday morning was back to my starting weight of 97kgs. Not great anyway, but I'd done a session of spin and Body Pump Sunday morning, and I had an evening with JogBlog lined up!
Jogblog and I met up in town, funnily enough in a pub! We then necked a couple of pints and headed off to a vegan Chinese all you can eat buffer. You can see where this is going can't you? Tons of food! Several platefuls later (not quite sure about some of the mock meat) we left and headed towards the venue.
It was a charidee night for Paul Fox of The Ruts. The name might escape you but you probably remember the main hit single "Babylon's Burning" which for me was one of the best songs to come out of the era. The list was like punk royalty (okay - no Sex Pistols or Clash) but we had the UK Subs, The Damned, Splodgenessabounds (Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps - please!). I think the bar staff probably got bored of people saying that to them by the end of the night!
Several other peeps too, including a lot of reggae type peeps (who were they?) and a black woman - didn't get to hear her name. Could it possibly have been Polly Styrene from X-Ray Spex? Jogblog and I went outside to chat a bit as well, which was great.
Anyway - then The Ruts appeared, with Henry Rollins (from the early 90s - not entirely sure what his connection was) as lead singer. He was excellent, and full of energy. Then the evening climaxed with the big hit single, although they had plenty of great tunes. The audience, generally in their forties plus, but still with some vestige of punk clothing and in one case an 18 inch spikey hair cut, were bouncing up and down and throwing glasses of beer like crazy. All in all a great night :-)
Then back to Jogblog's for a sleep and then brekkie. She was most generous this morning and allowed me an extra 1g of muesli, so I got 51g. How generous is that? It did all seem rather futile given how much I'd eaten (and drunk) the night before though!
I have my driving test theory exam on Friday so I need to get down to studying the Highway Code and Hazard Perception, and also deciding if my leg will stand up to running a 10k Thursday evening!
Jogblog and I met up in town, funnily enough in a pub! We then necked a couple of pints and headed off to a vegan Chinese all you can eat buffer. You can see where this is going can't you? Tons of food! Several platefuls later (not quite sure about some of the mock meat) we left and headed towards the venue.
It was a charidee night for Paul Fox of The Ruts. The name might escape you but you probably remember the main hit single "Babylon's Burning" which for me was one of the best songs to come out of the era. The list was like punk royalty (okay - no Sex Pistols or Clash) but we had the UK Subs, The Damned, Splodgenessabounds (Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps - please!). I think the bar staff probably got bored of people saying that to them by the end of the night!
Several other peeps too, including a lot of reggae type peeps (who were they?) and a black woman - didn't get to hear her name. Could it possibly have been Polly Styrene from X-Ray Spex? Jogblog and I went outside to chat a bit as well, which was great.
Anyway - then The Ruts appeared, with Henry Rollins (from the early 90s - not entirely sure what his connection was) as lead singer. He was excellent, and full of energy. Then the evening climaxed with the big hit single, although they had plenty of great tunes. The audience, generally in their forties plus, but still with some vestige of punk clothing and in one case an 18 inch spikey hair cut, were bouncing up and down and throwing glasses of beer like crazy. All in all a great night :-)
Then back to Jogblog's for a sleep and then brekkie. She was most generous this morning and allowed me an extra 1g of muesli, so I got 51g. How generous is that? It did all seem rather futile given how much I'd eaten (and drunk) the night before though!
I have my driving test theory exam on Friday so I need to get down to studying the Highway Code and Hazard Perception, and also deciding if my leg will stand up to running a 10k Thursday evening!
posted by XFR Bear @ 7:23 pm
3 Comments:
Wow, I managed to get to 37 years old thinking Poly Styrene was small and blonde. How stupid do I feel? :-)
I'm not certain it was, but she did look like Polly did.
I have a dayglo orange vinyl of "The Day The World Turned Day-glo" somewhere :-)
I like orange :-) I have a bog standard black 7" single of Warrior in Woolworths.
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