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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2003-06-13 01:01 am

Late again...

Tonight was supposed to be another early night. Unfortunately, we've just had a late-breaking bout of tidying/scrubbing/vacuuming/weeding. For lo, tomorrow there will be parents visiting.

Sadly, not my parents, who take the deeply deranged view that this is our house, and therefore our mess, our problem, and our business. Instead it is Andy's parents, who will Have Opinions on the way things are done. House looks nice now, though. At least to us. I imagine it'd still fall well short of anyone with remotely house-proud standards.

Oh, and a message to pub landlords everywhere: if a main dish contains potatoes as a main ingredient, I probably don't want chips with it. My broccoli and cream cheese bake was nice, but since it came with integral spuds, I really didn't want all those chips.

Pintwatch says that the Three Horseshoes in Towersey does moderate food (see above), a very nice pint of Charlie Wells' Bombadier (no idea of price, someone else bought me it), but has a very scary barmaid. Sit outside where she can't bite you.

[identity profile] lathany.livejournal.com 2003-06-13 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Also I think it's more difficult when you share a whole house. When I was living in Finchley there was a general agreement that we would all clean the communal areas for visiting parents. However our rooms were ours.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2003-06-13 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Aye. My room is a sty. And staying that way :)

(Not on principle, you understand. I'm trying to tidy it, but made no effort last night to.)