the money and curry from hell

as mark said, new years came 3 minutes early for us in our bar in leeds which kind of stole our thunder a little as we had agreed to celebrate the bringing in of 2006 a second later than everyone else in the bar due to the leap second that had been added on by those kooky atomic clock watchers. we did wait a few more minutes but the reaction wasnt the same after the premature celebration.

there always seems to be such a pressure on new year's eve to have really good plans, to be 'somewhere' when that clock strikes but when i actually look back my most memorable new years were when i wasnt anywhere in particular and hjadnt planned much at all like 2004/5 just sitting around in mark's house or when i stood on a roundabout -not quite having made it into bristol- for the millenium.

so in a bid to avoid the hype lisa an i hot-footed it to leeds for a simple night and it all just fell into place. mark and jo joined us in susanna's emtpy house (situated in the attractive area of beeston, leeds-bomb-making capitol of the England). from there we went into leeds and had the hottest curry known to man. as with every curry i said "hmm not sure what i want to have" to which mark replied "have a vindaloo, they're the best". he too ordered one proving he wasnt just trying to order a hot curry for me. WE WERE IN PAIN. it was stupid. i missed most of the conversation in some sort of curry daze. so we left there and tried to find somewhere to go next and were persauded by the first person selling tickets we came across about 10 metres away. i was quite cool actually. you paid £10 and they gave you 4 banknotes like the one above. which you could exchange for drinks. it was like something out of spirited away- the bath tokens maybe. and to top it off they played some good music- rolling stones, killers ans white stripes etc.

so there we are 2005 over with 2006 just begun. and still another 10 days of holidays. nice