Durham in Feb/March

[danny la rouge]

The homeowners don’t have a kettle. They’ve got one of those lethal Quorn boiling water taps. It’s terrifying! I hate it.

 

[danny la rouge]

So, I considered going in and telling them, but I’m guessing somebody must have by now.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

This seems to have closed down.

We had a ‘meeting’ there once, after hours. Nobody really explained anything to us and a comrade, needing a piss, ended up in an adjoining shop rather than the lavatory he was seeking. This triggered some kind of alarm and some cops showed up to find out what was going on. The last people we wanted to be there.
The owner turned up some time later and was not amused.

 

[danny la rouge]

The homeowners don’t have a kettle. They’ve got one of those lethal Quorn boiling water taps. It’s terrifying! I hate it.

Not Quorn.

 

[danny la rouge]

We’re at Seaham.

We’ll not be going in.

 

[danny la rouge]

You can get fresh elves here.

 

[Silas Loom]

How do you know they aren’t dried or frozen?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

How do you know they aren’t dried or frozen?

Because he can Seaham.

 

[neonwilderness]

Head along to Dawdon and see the beach from Alien 3

 

[danny la rouge]

The householders were a very nice couple and have a cupboard full of coffee they get from Spain which we can have as much of as we want. Which was very hospitable and kind. Except it’s horrible. I think 100% robusta. Even free I couldn’t last many days on it so I went out and bought some Lavazza.




This is the stuff. They obviously love it. I don’t.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

How do you know they aren’t dried or frozen?

Cos he’s been goblin them.

I’ll shut up now I think.

 

[danny la rouge]

They’ve got an Alexa for music. It’s rubbish at finding music.

“Alexa, play the Brahms String Sextets by the Raphael Ensemble”.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know the song ‘Prams and Six Tits’”.

I’m not fucking surprised, mate. Not fucking surprised.

 

[danny la rouge]

There’s a nearby town called Spennymoor. I don’t think we can afford to go there.

 

[Elpenor]

Saw that town written on peoples starter forms very often when I did the payroll for a huge factory based nearby in Newton Aycliffe.

 

[danny la rouge]

We’re in Yarm today The39thStep 39thstep

 

[danny la rouge]

This seems to have closed down.

It’s not closed down. It was just closed for a few days.

 

[danny la rouge]

It’s pretty inaccessible to disabled people, though. Up a narrow, steep, winding, narrow-treaded staircase with inadequate handrails, for several flights. Not great on a stick.

I can’t imagine holding meetings there, either! The meetings would need to be even smaller than anarchist ones!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It’s pretty inaccessible to disabled people, though. Up a narrow, steep, winding, narrow-treaded staircase with inadequate handrails, for several flights. Not great on a stick.

I can’t imagine holding meetings there, either! The meetings would need to be even smaller than anarchist ones!

There was like five of us.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

 

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Was it playing with your heart?

 

[Elpenor]

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The impromptu memorial garden is quite nice I think - shows the art is part of the physical and emotional landscape.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[danny la rouge]

We leave today.

 

[marty21]

Are you having to send proof of life pictures to the owners?

We get cat sitters in when we go away , and Mrs21 NEEDS pics every day.

 

[hitmouse]

So, I considered going in and telling them, but I’m guessing somebody must have by now.

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A bit late now, but I've just had a look and I think my previous dodgily-named Durham shop has now closed down, so you can't go in here to buy a phone when you're in Durham anymore:

 

[danny la rouge]

A bit late now, but I've just had a look and I think my previous dodgily-named Durham shop has now closed down, so you can't go in here to buy a phone when you're in Durham anymore:

It’s still there. I think most are called Select or something equally forgettable now.