And We Laughed...

Up nice and early once again for both Phil and myself... Phil since he has to go to work again today and me because I need to finish off the cleaning from yesterday as well as run a few errands before our visitors turn up.

I start about cleaning the kitchen and after getting a bit carried away (some 2 hours worth of carried awayness) I finally finish, and it's looking fantastic. So the next chore on the list is to pop into town and get some stuff I need such as a blanket, some new pyrex dishes and some more cutlery. All of which is relatively easy to do and only somewhat tedious when I hit a massive queue in Argos in which it appears that everyone in the local vicinity has turned up to purchase something or the other.

With the shopping done in town I then pick up Phil who's now home and we head off to do some food shopping for the weekend and we don't hang around either, we're in and out pretty quickly since both of us are starting to flag again as the long week of doing "stuff" and early mornings starts to creep up on us rather rapidly.

Home again and once the shopping is all unpacked and I've made up the guest bedroom it's not very long before the visitors arrive and I get on making lasagne for an early tea before we head out to Oxford for the evenings entertainment.

We are going to Jongleurs which is a stand up comedy club and well to be honest probably more appealing than spending the night squished into a hot and sweaty and overpriced nightclub where you can hardly hear yourself think let alone speak.

So after somewhat of an extraordinary taxi ride into town by a man who we have all now aptly renamed to "Psycho Dave" (due to his obvious anti-everything including government, police and immigrants) we arrive at the club, and after hanging around for 30 mins or so we are finally let into the venue.

I then spend the best part of 45 minutes queuing at the bar to try and get some drinks in before the show starts but give up after realising that the bar staff are completely useless. No idea how to optimize the pouring of a large round of drinks, or even how to memorise who was next in the queue... completely pants the lot of them! Luckily though Phil manages to collar a waitress who we sneak a drinks order in with and also place and order with her for some food and more drinks at the interval to save queuing at the bar again.

The first comedian we see was ok (Jay Sodagar - his website is here), but not really worth a mention, the second one however was very funny. His name was George Egg who facilitated his act by using lots of props and the like all to the appreciation of the audience who had more than a few belly laughs at his gags and humour.

We then have the interval break, and after waiting 20 minutes or so it becomes apparent that the food and drink we'd ordered previously wasn't coming! We manage to grab a waitress type person and complain who then goes to investigate the problem, only returning to tell us that the order for some reason hadn't gone through to the kitchen or bar, but she'd take personal responsibility to get the food and drinks herself before the 2nd half of the show started. Fair enough, but 10 minutes later she returns and this time tells us that we won't be able to get any food since the kitchen had shut, but she'll be sure to bring the drinks along, and give us a refund for the food.

I mean if there was a sure fire way of putting a dampener on a evening, the loss of food and drink sure does go along way to snuffing the flames of what could have been a very enjoyable time - but never mind, the next act is up and now that we've got some drinks it doesn't take much for us to sit back and listen to the virtues of Brian Higgins, who shared his thoughts on everything from parental responsibility to drunken departure lounge antics. A very funny comedian then who's only let down was the fact that he screamed into the microphone a lot resulting in a few ear cringing moments.

The show ends at around 11 pm and rather participate in the disco we head home and after a bit of chit chat we then go to bed to let our livers process the Malibu Woo's and Sex On The Beaches.

Posted by Abi on the October 8, 2005 11:05 PM