Happy Easter, I hope everyone is having a restful weekend, even if it is just for some of it. So far I have a had a lovely weekend. Our weekend started on Thursday evening, myself and Lisa went to Hull City Hall to see Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast on tour. He interviewed Bob Mortimer (yeah I know, absolutely fantastic) and Tommy Cannon. Bob was his usual hilarious self, sharing jokes from his joke book in the style of Peter Beardsley, telling stories about appearing on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and explaining the drawbacks of having electronic gates that rely on having an app. Absolutely sublime! Tommy was not as abstract as Bob, but fascinating and somewhat emotional all the same. He talked about how he met Bobby Ball and spent most of the hour regaling us with stories of his best friend and comedy other half. It was a wonderful evening.
On Friday we went out for breakfast at the pub where Jack works, the breakfast was reasonable and the company was exceptional. It is always a pleasure spending time with Jack and of course Lisa. For the rest of the day me and Lisa just slobbed out on the sofa watching Homicide New York on Netflix, and trying to remember what day of the week it was (Friday, Saturday or Sunday, it felt like a Sunday but then it could be Saturday as we were at work yesterday, then remembered it was Good Friday). At teatime we wrestled with 2 traditions, do we have fish and chips as it is Good Friday, or do we stick with our Friday after pay day Chinese Takeaway. We went with the Chinese takeaway. It was a no brainer really, the queues for the chippy are always mental on Good Friday and we just couldn’t face the stress of waiting ages in a queue, getting more and more stressed and hungry with other people experiencing the same negative emotional response. Lets be honest most of us get hangry waiting in line for fish and chips and I just didn’t need that amount of negativity in my life. We ordered our usual once a month takeaway from our usual Chinese Takeaway (Hing Wins on Springbank West). We get the same thing every time. We have prawn toast to share, Lisa has Chicken Satay and fried rice and I have Singapore Chow Mein. We like what we like, sometimes if I fancy a change I will have King Prawn Curry and fired rice. But this Good Friday I wasn’t feeling that adventurous. Poor Jack was at work, he is always at work when we have our pay day treat. I felt bad that he missed out, then my food arrived and I didn’t care anymore.
After our takeaway which was delicious as always (Lisa left some of hers for Jack to have when he got in, I didn’t leave any of mine, I love him, but not enough to share my noodles with him), we watched Barbie on Sky Movies. I enjoyed it, quite funny in parts, in some ways quite simplistic, but I did like the use of Brene Brown’s web of shame to describe the female experience, and the box of shame from a male perspective. Very thought provoking, the songs were fun and I had a couple of moments where I laughed out loud. If you have not seen it (I don’t imagine there are many that haven’t) then it is worth a look.
Saturday saw us going into town to see some live music in the shape of the Trinity festival ( an acoustic music festival in various pubs across the City centre). We wanted to see one particular act (Louie and Zac from The Froot). They played 2 sets in Humber Dock Bar. As usual they were fantastic.
Today and tomorrow are a chill out days. Lamb is in the oven, football on the telly and I am contemplating getting a beer out of the fridge.
Have a lovely Easter, be gentle to yourself and those around you, take the time you can to rest and recover.
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