Today was a good day to...

[matgb]

Work.

Seriously. It's been over a month since I sat in an office and did a solid day's work, and, although it's weird, I sort of miss it. So, after a bit of (welcome) badgering from pinkshifter, I went into Cowley St (LibDem HQ) and helped out with a big pile of data entry for next months spring conference. Lots (and lots) of forms.

It felt just like being back at the old place, except the data entry didn't feel completely pointless. Plus, picking up forms filled in by journalists I've seen on TV, or bloggers I've read, and updating their details was, weirdly, cool. Met mooism and others for lunch, went to the Regency Cafe, a place so good it's the main picture on the Wiki entry for greasy spoon. Decent omelette, pile of chips and a whole pint of orange juice (in a traditional milk bottle) for under a fiver. Bargain, that's cheap by Devon standards, let alone central London; I'll go back there again. At the end of the long day we went for pizza in the Pizza Express under Millbank Tower. As that's no longer where Labour have their HQ, no apparatchiks to strangle, but, y'know...

Only downpoint was the tube home; took the District to Earl's Court, but then had to wait half an hour (along with most of the platform) for the Wimbledon train, loads of enpty trains went past to the other stations, but one for us? Not a chance. Right; off to go download the new extensions you've all been recommending me in the previous post, ColorZilla looks good straight out of the box...

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[poifaerie.livejournal.com]

2. Bacon, eggs, hash browns, beans, and sausage - £4.25
3. Bacon, eggs, chips, hash browns, and sausage - £4.75

Why does it cost 50p less for chips than beans? Are the chips really that bad??
*cue self loathing for pedantic observations*

[matgb]

I think, y'know, you've just found one of the many faults of wikipedia; uncited examples made up by an enthusiastic extra.

That's not the menu at the Regency, anyway.

[poifaerie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured The Regency would be a bit nicer. It just made me giggle.

Point of interest: A friend and I set ourselves the challenge of eating a whole catering size tin of beans (2.6kg) in less than a day. We almost did it; it took until breakfast the second day. I was impressed.

[matgb]

Um. Why?

Oh, wait, student. Yeah. You're nuts.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

The other thing you learn as a student is that tea can grow mold.

[matgb]

Well, yeah, but I knew that before I was a student. Coffee does it too.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

That's like... midlands prices for food o_o

and I've decided, once I finish uni, I am moving to London.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Mr Egg (http://www.birmingham-eating.com/14227.htm) would probably be cheaper. It used to be fantastically cheap, anyway. And very good, assuming you wanted chips, egg, and assorted other fried food. Or sandwiches which were bloody huge. Haven't been there in ages, though.

[malkavelli.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I still remember travelling up to Birmingham for a card tournament about 18 months ago. I went out for food one night to a chip shop and ordered large cod, chips, some samosas and a share size bottle of coke for less than 5 quid. Seriously I thought he had got my order wrong and argued it until he pointed out the price list on the wall. He could got himself a healthy tip form my tenner if he had wanted to take advantage of the ignorant londoner. Seriously, though, paying midlands prices for things felt like being in the third world.

[matgb]

Now you know how the rest of the country feels like visiting London. It's damned expensive up here...

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

A friend from Croydon went to a pub in Derbyshire a year or so ago. "Pint and a half of bitter, please," he says.

The landlady pours them, and hands them to him. "That'll be £1.92, love."

"£1.92?! Are you sure?"

The landlady looks worried, and checks the price on her fingers. "Yes, £1.92. I'm sorry, we had to put the price up a few weeks ago."

[cyril-squirel.livejournal.com]

Right.
Ere up north tha can get a plate o t'chips wi' t'chip spice, a large addock fresh from t'canal, a double helping of t'beans and if you know t'owner, a free helping of t'mould out o t'fridge and still get change from a ten bob note.
Now eating it of course requires equal amounts of courage and stupidity.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I went into Cowley St (LibDem HQ) and helped out with a big pile of data entry for next months spring conference. Lots (and lots) of forms.

God, now I feel guilty. I keep meaning to volunteer somewhere in Libdemmery to do, you know, stuff. But don't. Because I'm a bad person.

[matgb]

Well, if you've free time at all next few weeks, the conference team are swamped. 4 people to organise a 6000 person conference. Not sure I could do that and stay sane...

But, y'know, it's the first time I've done anything for them in ages, so it's not Bad Person, it's not got around to it normality methinks...

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Evenings and weekends are possibilities, depending on just how late things could go (or how early I could start work, which is pretty flexible about this sort of thing).

[matgb]

We got fed up trying to get the printers to work tonight at about 8.45pm and went home. And they're talking about being in this weekend and next, conference is first weekend of March, a whole lotta database stuff and printing needs doing between now and then.

It's, um, fun. In a 'not very but useful' kinda way.