A Weekend Visitor
Recently Witho and I had an old friend, J, round for the weekend. He was the common connection who originally brought us together. I went to school with J and she worked at [insert company name here] with him. We had a nice meal on Saturday afternoon and played some computer games as the weather in Taunton was absolutely quite wet. Then we watched the scousers (red) beating Charlton, who I was supporting both in my anti-scouse ( because he is a Liverpool supporter even though he actually only just grew up on Merseyside and probably lived closer to three or four clubs than them) and pro-South East London capacities. Then we had a nice curry and sat down for a marathon film watching session with Koyaanisqaatsi and Powaqqatsi on offer this time round - Witho and J had both seen Koyaanisqatsi before and raved about it, while I was new to it. I always have liked getting a look into someone else's crazed view of the world and for this reason do find myself a bit bemused by people claiming that they know how the film should have gone, better in fact than the person who wrote (or whatever) it. Isn't the whole point that it is about letting yourself into someone else's world to see what they think, rather than finding yet another way of egotistically imposing yourself on a world that doesn't need it? Anyway Koyaanisqaatsi was really interesting with a vast number of images in it which seemed to be making a coherent point though I was not quite sure Powaqqatsi was so successful - I wasn't sure what point it seemed to be making. By the end we were all falling asleep - who knows what we might have missed - so we just headed off to bed.This morning we went into town at a respectable hour to show J the sights before lunch and J's departure before the big match. The sights were still there and The Crown and Sceptre did a very nice roast dinner - certainly much better than I remember their food being before, though before was probably as many as five years ago. Then we played a bit of pool before J headed off and we went back home to see the match which United won 2-0. Get in! Hopefully this will be the start of a vast improvement in form.
Anyway J was our first overnight guest, doing somewhat better then our previous guests who stayed for literally minutes on end, possibly as many as five. It was good to see J and behave like the eleven year olds we may always be around each other.
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