Urban Family

So, after my last blog post which was full of hard truths and sadness, but this one will be full of joy and warm friendship.

This weekend just gone was one of the good ones.

Phil and I had a lovely day on Saturday just being lazy, reading and I indulged in some more episodes of my favourite West Wing. We went for a jaunt around town in the afternoon and decided it was too horribly crowded so we cut that short and sat on the seafront with a diet coke and a ciggy and watched the sun go down over the West Pier. It was lovely.

During that nice pause my lovely friend Hannah-May called and we discussed her bringing her little boy Gnarkill over for a playdate with Celia; Celia has been on the horn every few weeks and we thought it would be a good idea to reintroduce the two of them as the last time they met he was only 4 months old ;) We also decided that we'd head over to the Caroline of Brunswick for the Playground-Bang-Around Glam rock night being held by Simon Price and his lovely wife Jenna.

On the walk home, lady Becca texted to ask if we were out later and we arranged for her to come over for a drink at ours beforehand.

The evening was splendid. Just splendid. Phil guzzled some White Wych beers and I had red wine - Aldi rocks and the booze was well within our Social Budget for the week ;) Hannah-May and her fella Mike came round and Becca joined us. We sat around watching the cats, drinking

and chatting, admiring Becca's most awesome curly red and black dreads and generally making merry. Over to the pub to meet up with blog friends at our favourite pub and listen to some cracking tunes. The evening had such a great vibe; lovely chats and lots of laughs, new friends, old friends and great music. Here we all are:

So that was Saturday!

Sunday was even better, if that was possible.

Becca, Hannah-May and Mike came over to ours in the afternoon for Zombie shooting (the boys), cake making and hair-dying (the girls) and roast cooking (the boys and the girls). SO lovely. Becca shaved the side of Hannah-May's head and then I bleached the roots and drew on a leopard print in bleach on the shaved part. When she'd finished it with bright red it looked AMAZING. Tomorrow she's popping round in the afternoon and we'll put her dreads in and watch Repo, I'm really looking forward to it. Sunday afternoon was filled with laughter and the smell of ginger cake cooking, chats between like-minded people about Christmas and family and it was just ace. I honestly haven't been that contended and happy for a long time - I have the best friends and housemate and boyfriend and I am so grateful.