Janie and Lucy

Posted on 2008/10/12 09:10:11 (October 2008).

[Sunday 5th October]
Having had a proper day out yesterday, and had plans for this evening, we were content today to do not very much whatsoever in the daytime today

Rather oddly we had the leftover kimchi nabe from last night for breakfast. It was actually quite nice.

I spent a lot of the day on the computer, and amongst other things I set up Google Analytics for this blog and a couple of other things on the Maison. (I'm writing this post one week on and apparently we've had about 400 unique visitors in that space of time, on the bits of the site I actually set up analytics for).

I also did the periodic check I do for spam on various bits of the Maison, and am pleased to report that after setting up Akismet a while back we've got it down to a mere trickle.

Chie and I also reorganised the kitchen slightly, based on the observation we couldn't really open the microwave door in its' current location. So we moved all the whisky etc bottles that were lining one side of the kitchen to their own little square of work surface. Somehow bunching them all together like that made us look a lot more like alcoholics.

Went to Sainsbury's a bit later in the afternoon, and did some unusually very frugal shopping - mainly just fresh vegetables.

In the evening, Janie and Lucy (my Dad's wife and step sister) were passing through London on their way to Estonia to visit Alex (my step brother). Their flight left Stansted at some godforsaken hour in the morning, so they thought it probably best to just come up the night before, and spend the night in the airport. As they both came to London by train, and were then getting a coach to Stansted from Victoria, this brought them very close to where we live.

So we met up in Victoria station and headed out for dinner. I originally had a local Chinese restaurant in mind, but had found out on the way to the station that it was closed on Sundays. So instead we went to my favourite pizza place in the area - Oliveto. As always the waiters were a tad on the snotty side, but the pizza was very good (although Chie to my surprise revealed that she didn't actually think the pizza there was that marvellous, and much preferred their pasta). I had the calzone for the first time, which was rather like a giant pasty. Janie, being of Cornish extraction, found this quite amusing.

After dinner we escorted Janie and Lucy to the coach station - in fact it turned out their coach didn't actually go from the coach station itself, but from the road outside - luckily we worked that out in time. We waved them off there and Chie and I headed back home.

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