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[clo_again]

I'm home. So far it's weird but mostly nice, although I rather suspect I'll be very glad to head to Newcastle next Saturday just to get out of the house and be doing something again. However, there're no words to express how lovely it was to wake up at 7am this morning (I was in bed by 9:45pm. I'd just spent twenty two hours travelling; seriously, I'm amazed I held out that long) and to be able to get up and meander around without worrying about waking anyone, to wander downstairs and sit on the sofa with a coffee and get reacquainted with Harry the Second (my biiiig laptop). It was unspeakably wonderful. I rather think that if I'd been working in Australia and had my own place, I really wouldn't have wanted to leave. Add 'working in Australia-probably-Sydney-but-Melbourne-would-be-nice-too' to the list of things I'd like to do sometime, along with 'become famous author' and 'own debenture tickets to Wimbledon'.

And now I'm home, I have to say the biggest, hugest, massive-est THANK YOU to chickybee32, mayakitten, acityofwonder, irradiatedsoup, futureperfect and falln who all took time out of their lives and/or opened up their respective houses to the souvenir-crazy Brit to make my whole Australia experience so utterly wonderful. I love all of you. You're amazing. Whenever you all make it to the UK, whatever couch/spare bed I may have at the time is yours, along with tour guiding and much forcing encouraging you to watch British tv.

(I'll probably flail a little bit extra over you if you bring me more Tim Tams but I'll be ridiculously happy to see you regardless. ;) )

Seriously yous guys. You rule. <3

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IN LESS HAPPY NEWS RELATING TO AUSTRALIA: I hate stupid TV laws that mean I can't watch the Good News Week stuff off the site back here in the UK. Ggrr. And no good Australian proxy servers seem to exist. It means I'll have to wait for the podcast to be uploaded before I can watch Monday's episode but Wil Anderson twittered about how hilarious it was filming it and I don't want to wait. Britain would love your comedy, Australia! You should sell it to Dave so they can repeat it a millionty one times a week!

...Please?

On the plus side I did take about 150 caps of Paul doing his blog while I was still in Oz and now I'm happily engaged in making icons of them all, with only the occasional mournfulness over not being able to rewatch them whenever. Seriously. Unfair. But pretty icons!

And also a plus, my DAAS dvd works just fine on Harry II (who is huge. I'v had dinky little Beaver the Netbook for two months and now I suddenly have all seventeen-inch-screen of Harry back. It's weirding me out) and all my books have arrived so I suppose I should just suck it up and be glad that they upload the podcasts at all, for free. I'm thinking about downloading Thank God You're Here too. I'm pining for Aussie comedy and the new series of QI isn't being shown until *September* even though they've filmed it all, so there's no British awesome to distract me.

The woes of my life. Need moar comedy! Except, I'm pretty sure Dave will have a QI marathon on at some point this week - because they always do - and all will be right with the world once more. Give me a month; you'll say "Paul McDermott" and I'll say "Who?"

...That's a lie. But a comforting one.

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Oh Andy. There're no words for the
suckitude of this happening to you in the all-too-short grass season. There's a week until Wimbledon starts though, so I'm still optimistic hopeful.

On the subject of tennis, this made me giggle: Robin Soderling never threatened, the rain tried and gave up and the Spanish lunatic could only leave him a mite shaken, but not in the remotest stirred. Federer is so mellow, he just tried to shy away from the intruder instead of clocking him; one would liked to have seen the idiot try the same trick on Marat Safin.

I would indeed. Here's to some idiot running on court to try to drape a flag over Marat Safin! We'd probably get a lesson in how to break a racquet over someone's head. Certainly it'd be an example to all the crazies out there of why Chasing Someone With Easily-a-Potential-Weapon In Hand and a career in using it with no small amount of force, could be a bad idea.

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...I'm sure there was something else I wanted to say but it's gone. Hm. Went on a walk with the parentals earlier and we saw a cormorant catch and eat an eel, which is exciting but not what I wanted to say. I think.

Oh well. I'm sure either Livejournal, Facebook or Twitter will be around for me to fling it to the internets when I remember.

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[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

what's your twitter? I am, to no one's surprise scoobydumblonde

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

They should have had Marat as the security! I can just imagine the guy going near Roger again, and a giant Russian pelting it into view and clocking him on the head with his racquet -sporfles-

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Glad you got home safely!

[mayakittenreads]

You're welcome! It was awesom having you! (the microwave stills a bit like smoke!)

In the mean time I already have many, many recordings I can burn for you. :D Do you realise you've used the paul mcdermott tag like 12 times in 2 months? *smirks*

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[renne.livejournal.com]

you're welcome. :) it was great to meet you!

[chickybee32.livejournal.com]

Oh it was our pleasure. If it wasn't for the photos and the minor mental scarring I'd be having trouble believing you were actually here! Lee's still talking about drugging you and keeping you here :D

*hugs* It was awesome. Just... pure awesome. Even the mental scarring cause it was such Inmate stuff

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you've made it back safe and sound, although it seems like you only just left! You'll have to let me know when you're appearing in London, in case I'm still around then :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

Pretty redundant now, considering we've already added each other but I'm clo_helen for anyone else who's interested. :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

They should! Maybe that's his plan after this year; Protecting Roger From the Crazy Squad. ^_^ He'd definitely have been more effective than the security guards they had.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think I'll be in Lancs on Wednesday if you're still around for cupcakey goodness. :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

Hee, we did incinerate that popcorn! I'm looking forward to you coming to the UK so I can make you watch all our British comedy. ^_^

Yayayayay! I'm pining terribly for my GNW (even though I have like twenty episodes downloaded as podcasts). Uh, I didn't realise that. *shame* And I haven't even posted anything like as much as usual in the last two months. Oh dear. I'm totally blaming you for this you know!

[clo.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDDDDDDDD

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

LOL. Maybe a little. ;-)

[clo.livejournal.com]

You too! Make sure you look me up if you're ever in this corner of the world. :D

[clo.livejournal.com]

I know! I've only been home two days and it's only because I have photos and souvenirs that I can remember I ever left. It's so weird.

*hugs back* I'm so glad I made it out there, eventually. It was so, so awesome. Now I just need to make it back at some point.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I know! Two and a half months has never gone so fast. I'll be in London from a week tomorrow (the evening of June 22nd onwards) for about a week and a half if you're still around!

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

This answers my question! I was going to ask you when you'd be coming to London. And now I know. You still have a set of keys, right?

[clo.livejournal.com]

Now you do know! :) I have to get a train to Lancaster from Newcastle, then a train on to London (because my parents decided to pay for the train rather than picking me up, sigh) so I think I'm arriving sometime in the evening anyway. Which may be a good thing as, if you're sure I didn't give the keys back to you, then I must've put them in a very safe place while we moved. And I have no idea what that place might be.

Hm. Possibly tomorrow may involve a key hunt.

[mayakittenreads]

*giggles* Incinerate is a good word.

*cackles* *is proud*

Now go read the pre-Wimbledon Andy angst. *shoos* :P

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

I am in London then! And since jobs are scarce and I am therefore unemployed, I pretty much have nothing but time to waste. You'll have to let me know when you're free and we can meet up for a catch up :D

[clo.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! (Okay, bummer about jobs but also yay because I haven't seen you in aaagggggees! :D) I think kindoftrouble is working during the day that week so pretty much any day in the week is excellent. I'll have teh interwebs once I'm down there so we can decide then or now or whenever. And uh, pick somewhere to meet that I can find... being non-native and all! ;)

Wow. I can't believe I'll be back in London next week. :D

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I am always around for cupcakey goodness! I think I'll be free on Wednesday, although there's something floating around in the back of my head about it... I'll see if I have anything on for that day.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, I just remembered why Wednesday is floating weirdly in my mind... I'm off to Birmingham to see Russell Howard with [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]!

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

I know, have we even seen each other since Uni?? Madness :D And yes, no job is bad, but lots of free time is good.

Well I'm free every day, except thurs morning and wed evening, so whenever you're free! And if you point me towards a tube station I'll be able to get there - my London knowledge is far from impressive!

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

...Aaaaaaand another comment from me. Sorry to spam! My train on Wednesday isn't until 2pm, so if you're heading into Lancaster in the morning, or early afternoon, I could do that.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Heh, spam away in the name of cupcakes! The idea is to get into Lancaster fairly early so, if I manage to actually catch the right train this time (*facepalm*) I could get into for about half twelve and meet you around then or anytime between then and two? Don't want you to be rushing for your train though! I can make it in Thurs or Fri if there'll be too much going on tomorrow. :)

[clo.livejournal.com]

I don't think so and uni was a depressingly long time ago now! Free time = my favouritest thing. I'm sad that I have to work the rest of the summer after my London trip and not just bum around aimlessly. *woe*

Awesomesauce! Maybe say Tuesday or Friday then? Um... there is an aaaaawwweesome cake/muffin shop in Covent Garden that makes muffins with sweets on top (if it's still there... it was at New Year) so we could meet there maybe? It's downstairs in the main bit of Covent Garden, so it should be pretty easy to find. Maybe better than trying to spot each other outside in crowds?

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Is it okay if we go with Friday?

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

But you have at least had your Oz break? Although I imagine it wasn't exactly restful :D

I'm gonna go with Friday, if that's ok? And I'll try and find the cake shop, but maybe I should grab your mobile number in case I can't find it? (I am very bad at finding things and general directions). What time were you thinking of meeting up?

[clo.livejournal.com]

Friday is good! I was actually thinking of heading in to see Coraline at 10:40am so we can either meet for that or after? It finishes at 12:40 so we could meet at 1pm if you didn't want to see it?

[clo.livejournal.com]

*giggles too* It does fit what we did to that poor popcorn.

Totally your fault! When I chain myself to the Ten offices to protest late podcast uploading, I'll be calling you for backup. ;-)

I made a mental bookmark to go back and read then I forgot! Will go check it out. :) Though angst! I'm always so happy about Wimbledon that I can only write fluff. ^_^

[clo.livejournal.com]

Heh the parts where I stayed with Aussies and flaked on their respective couches was pretty restful, except New Zealand involved so much sleep deprivation that it balanced out! :D

Friday is the awesome. Uh, my mobile is currently two flights of stairs away from me so I'll let you know it in a bit. :D Uh, maybe 12:30/1pm? Gives us time to sleep in but plenty of time to chat and nom down on muffins?

[mayakittenreads]

Popcorn of the world beware!

*giggles* I have my placards ready.

It's pre-Wimbledon angst technically, if that helps. ;)

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

Yay, I shall pencil this into my diary! 1ish sounds like a great time to meet up to me! What can be better than muffins for dinner? NOTHING, I'm pretty sure.

Well, my mobile no is (haha, I've had it years and still need to check it) 07983579872, so either send yours across or txt me or whatever and then when I am wandering lost and alone searching for muffins you can come and save me :D

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

ps - i have just written it in my diary, so just to confirm we are talking about fri 26th?? :D

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I do want to see it, but unfortunately, I am lacking in the monetary department at the moment, so, meet after, if that's okay? I don't want to stop you from seeing it.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Am also lacking in the money department but I've decided not to worry about it until after I get back from London... at which point I really will be bankrupt but oh well! ^_^ After is good; should I see you in the cupcake cafe at 1pm?

[clo.livejournal.com]

Friday 26th it is! My mobile no is 07532048542 these days; just call me up if you have trouble finding it. The one I'm thinking of (hurrah for Google!) is the Candy Cakes cafe in the downstairs bit of Covent Garden. I *think* there's a souvenir/gift-y shop next door... like I said, give me a buzz if you can't find it.

The muffins are amazing. :D They're worth the looking for.

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

OMG those cakes look amazing, I'm really looking forward to eating one :D

Your number is duly noted, and I'll be seeing you next friday even if I do have to search for a bit!

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me! (The cupcakeness, not the bankruptcy XD)