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Teddy Thompson Kings Cross Scala, London Thursday, October 2nd 2008 Can you be too good at something? It’s a question I find myself considering at the Scala last Thursday as Teddy Thompson, immaculately clad in a well-cut suit, works his way through the majority of the excellent A Piece of What You Need. Thompson delivers [...]
We had a cocktail and some lovely tasting beer in the first bar we frequented, [and] being the geeks we are, we enjoyed a light round or two of the game Yahtzee.
With the aforementioned earnest-flute man standing by, eyes closed in rapture, singing and finger-clicking along, it proved somewhat difficult to be a mature audience. Catherine joined in the harmonising in order to relieve any energy which might otherwise had manifested into a Grade 1 giggly-fit, but I instead chose to stare into the Washington State landscape.
Santa Monica beach was brill, and we hired bikes and felt like I was in The OC. Plus, all the Baywatch lifeguards and musclemen on the beach were hilarious.
Still not sure what a honky tonk is, but we went to one. Think a big barn dance with games machines, a bull ring, multiple bars and people dressed as cowboys.
They drove us to a Mexican restaurant, where a suspicious Martina ‘Columbo’ Booth here kept querying them about their wives, in a seeming attempt to gauge their authenticity.
In the spirit of those intrepid travellers who have gone before them, Catherine Bolsover and Martina Booth brave suspicious immigration officers, over-zealous New York nurses and dodgy Texans to discover just where North America's at in 2007, starting their trip in Toronto, Canada.
It’s 1994. My swollen belly swathed in bandages, I’m lying down watching the other kids on Hydes Ward B playing outside in the quad, while I’m indolent in bed, forbidden by the nurses to join the rest of my sickly brethren. Dad comes in. It also happens to be my tenth birthday, and tucked under [...]
