What happened in September then? Well, Stuff. Ha ha.
September began with the relief of the kids going back to school- always a bonus if you're free in the day and you don't have to avoid tripping up over kids. Bonus.
The first of Septembers offerings was the final carnival on the Isle of Wight. Ryde Illuminations. Tradition has it that you watch the shit floats go by and drink. This year Rooby was meant to come, but due to the evilness of Migraines she couldn't face it. :( So, Amy came over last minute and wore flashy shit with me.
We had a very classy wetherspoons dinner, then I proceeded to drink some more Rum.
The floats were ok, There seem to be an awful lot of dance troops wearing neon on the Island apparently..
My favourite was the Back to the Future float, and of course Park of the dead. They don't seem to scare the kids, more the grown ups. One day I will go to it...Skip ahead 2 weeks, and I'm off to Portsmouth again. This time with Leila and Laura (both gals I've met via meetup.com Next meet) planned to go to Joungleurs in Tiger, Tiger. Thanks to a groupon deal, we got it for a cheap price :) Good thing too, as we paid to have a table at Tiger, Tiger.
Before heading to Lelia's, I met Laura in Portsmouth and braved Primarni, before we went on a plight to find Marvel cushions in Morrisons. Oh and Lego Monster Figures... and eating Ice cream...
We went to Deans Diner in Port Solent first. I am always swung by a Diner & Sweet Potato fries.
Pre-giant troughs of Alcohol
I am way too happy about drinking Rum from a Pirate cup
The Lovely ladies in Deans Diner (fear not, there is Vodka in those cups)
The comedy was ok. The first guy was actually Dipsy from Tellietubbies. No lie. He wasn't so much funny as kinda aggressive. The whole comedy shabang was a bit weird actually, they had a bunch of rules, like 'No heckling' REALLY?? But it was funny. Not only because the people of Portsmouth are, well, a curious bunch of people.. but also for how darn polite the bar staff weren't...
On to Tiger, Tiger where we had our nice little table in the Tiki bar.
Tiki bar = Good.
Music played in Tiki bar=Bad.
The self erecting straws provided much entertainment that evening
Lelia said do something funny. My drunken brain thought this was funny.
We ended up the evening after consuming the giant troughs & cherry sambuca shots, dancing to Backstreet boys in the next room (Laura insisted we danced. It was Everybody after all) followed by the Grease megamix, which every girl knows all of the words to.
Surprisingly the next day I wasn't that hungover. Laura on the other hand.. Yeah she made it to the Geek girl meet up in the last 10 minutes, and that was only to collect her Marvel cushions.
And my final adventure of September was to A Rockin' Good Vintage Alldayer VII
My adventure pals:
We left the sunny Isle on the 9am Ferry and headed up to Kingston. We got there around half 11 and had a look around. I kinda expected it to be bigger, but it was fun. I saw Verity from the Vanity Box which was cool. Always nice to bump into people that you know.
We had a look at the cars too & saw this little gem
Just, Oh my. Why?
I'm not entirely sure what the dude that made this was thinking. I mean I Love Elvis as much as the next guy, but WTF? It looks like the random end bit had to stuck on with Pollyfiller. When he drove out later on, I totally thought it was going to drop off...
There were some pretty cars too.
We watched Fever, who were ok. They would probably go down a storm at the Riverside, but a bit too Rockabilly for Andy's liking... I had a couple of strolls. Even a stroll that started out as a stroller, then wasn't so much, but not defeated Danni & I stayed until the end....of the song.
It was a fun day, but had we known it was on the smaller side of things, we could of left a bit later. Thanks as usual to Andy for driving us & Danni for listening to me warble about shit for hours on end. You guys are the bestest!!
So. Yep. That was September.
October also has some excitement planned.
Until next time here's a picture of me drinking a Spiced Pumpkin Cappuccino in cat glasses.
