What I did in February 2018

[squirmelia]

I celebrated my birthday with lovely friends, and we slid down the slide in the Olympic Park and wandered through the park and then played video games and pinball at Four Quarters East. I drank a cocktail with parma violets in it, and also one called Donkey Kong Punch, which was served in a barrel. I played Tetris and even won against a friend playing Street Fighter 2! We ate ice-cream at La Gelatiera after that and then had drinks at a pub, followed by dancing that night at The Light Pours In.

On my actual birthday it snowed, so I wandered around Richmond Park in the snow, stared up at the sky and marvelled at how pretty everywhere looked and hid from the snow inside a tree. I also saw Lady Bird at the cinema. I ate marmite chocolate and tobacco caramel and other interesting chocolates that obandsoller gave me.

I visited Doncaster a few times for work. One night, I wandered around the town centre and saw the Minster and some other sights, and did some Ingress missions.

I continued with Spanish lessons.

I got a sleeper train to Cornwall! This was my first time on a sleeper. I spent a few days in Falmouth and visited the art gallery and saw some cool automatons, wandered on beaches, peered into rock pools, saw rainbows, visited the Maritime
Museum, visited castles, took the ferry to St Mawes, visited Trebah Gardens.

I had pizza and cocktails with the Farringdon Lunch Club, as well as marmite vodka and nutella and chilli brandy, and then met up with some Ingress friends afterwards.

I went to Marioke, but did not sing anything, as I got there too late.

I went to talks on Women and Video games at the Museum of London.

I went for drinks at the Euston Tap with the goths and had conversations about people no longer existing.

I went to an immersive theatre performance, the Droves, which was written and performed by children. I was quite confused when a child made of jacqui_c's hair, and some other people's spit and fingernails, called me mummy and wanted me to protect them.

I went on two tube walks: from Ruislip to Ruislip Manor and from Ruislip Gardens to South Ruislip.

I went to the Jealous Gallery and saw the International Weird Collage Show.

I ate dessert soup and laphet with doseybat at the Shan State and then we saw Sing my life at the cinema.

I celebrated morwen winning an award at her party!

I visited the Stables Gallery and saw an exhibition about water.

I celebrated Russell Hoban day and put quotes by him on yellow paper in various places.

I attended the Ingress Enlightened Monthly Social.

Comments

[iguana]

Ooh, how well did you sleep on the sleeper?

Sorry I couldn't make your birthday, but hooray for it snowing then!

[miss_newham]

How was the sleeper train? Did you sleep?