The Leeds Meet

The Leeds Meet was pretty fun, even though I kept lerching between feeling mega-sociable one minute and massively alone the next. There were times during the bowling when I was very close to leaving - I saw lots of people having fun and felt I was not included. In the end, I managed to settle and speak to people, and we then retired to Wetherspoons where I increased my popularity by handing out discount ale vouchers. Horray!

A similar story persisted in distrikt - the rather excellent bar we found at the last minute after the previous choice shat on us from a great height. The staff at distrikt were delighted to have us and could not have been more accommodating. They even gave me a free shot and allowed me to spend on my debit card even though it was below minimum spend. Their pizzas, as well as their choice of lagers, was first rate and I will definitely be visiting again. I liked the funky music vibe and the lighting too. It may have been a little dark but it added to the sense of exclusivity and it was great chatting to some good friends, particularly Aremay and his Politics of Doom (I broke the news to him that Harriet Harman had called Danny Alexander "a ginger rodent" - he enjoyed that).

We ate a lot during the day - the pizzas were fresh and not greasy - how they should be. I also tried to nab a sausage from the German sausage man who is actually from Wakefield but Kiffy nabbed the last one. I grabbed a hundreds and thousands pretzel from Ditsch on our way up to the bowling place. I also spent a lot of time in the early afternoon wandering Leeds trying to find a cash machine which would dispense £5 notes.

Only three people bothered to dress up. Blue was dressed as a zombie with a pizza for a nipple. Ska smacked it red raw when we were sat outside towards the end of the evening. Urban was a red devil with prostethic horns that took him three hours to affix. He was covered head to toe in red which left stains on the sheets apparently. With Blue's torn-up jacket (£7 from a charity shop) apparently their hotel room looked like some kind of murder scene. My gorgeous Wolfie was the other one who had dressed up - scaring the children as a vampire. He had no teeth due to ASDA's denture fixing cream not doing what it was supposed to. Buy Fixodent people!!

Some went to Nando's but I eschewed as Wolfie and I went there on Thursday when we had an impromptu bar crawl looking for the meet venue. We were a lil drunk by the time we got there and I didn't notice the cap was loose on the ketchup so I shook it and it went everywhere. I wasn't best pleased. Apparently, everyone had a good time on Sunday at XScape but I couldn't go due to work. I did meet up with Wolfie at the end of the day though and we went to La Tasca to share a meal. We went there as we needed the toilet (and it was the only place which would serve us at 10pm on a Sunday evening).

The Leeds Meet

The Leeds Meet was pretty fun, even though I kept lerching between feeling mega-sociable one minute and massively alone the next. There were times during the bowling when I was very close to leaving - I saw lots of people having fun and felt I was not included. In the end, I managed to settle and speak to people, and we then retired to Wetherspoons where I increased my popularity by handing out discount ale vouchers. Horray!

A similar story persisted in distrikt - the rather excellent bar we found at the last minute after the previous choice shat on us from a great height. The staff at distrikt were delighted to have us and could not have been more accommodating. They even gave me a free shot and allowed me to spend on my debit card even though it was below minimum spend. Their pizzas, as well as their choice of lagers, was first rate and I will definitely be visiting again. I liked the funky music vibe and the lighting too. It may have been a little dark but it added to the sense of exclusivity and it was great chatting to some good friends, particularly Aremay and his Politics of Doom (I broke the news to him that Harriet Harman had called Danny Alexander "a ginger rodent" - he enjoyed that).

We ate a lot during the day - the pizzas were fresh and not greasy - how they should be. I also tried to nab a sausage from the German sausage man who is actually from Wakefield but Kiffy nabbed the last one. I grabbed a hundreds and thousands pretzel from Ditsch on our way up to the bowling place. I also spent a lot of time in the early afternoon wandering Leeds trying to find a cash machine which would dispense £5 notes.

Only three people bothered to dress up. Blue was dressed as a zombie with a pizza for a nipple. Ska smacked it red raw when we were sat outside towards the end of the evening. Urban was a red devil with prostethic horns that took him three hours to affix. He was covered head to toe in red which left stains on the sheets apparently. With Blue's torn-up jacket (£7 from a charity shop) apparently their hotel room looked like some kind of murder scene. My gorgeous Wolfie was the other one who had dressed up - scaring the children as a vampire. He had no teeth due to ASDA's denture fixing cream not doing what it was supposed to. Buy Fixodent people!!

Some went to Nando's but I eschewed as Wolfie and I went there on Thursday when we had an impromptu bar crawl looking for the meet venue. We were a lil drunk by the time we got there and I didn't notice the cap was loose on the ketchup so I shook it and it went everywhere. I wasn't best pleased. Apparently, everyone had a good time on Sunday at XScape but I couldn't go due to work. I did meet up with Wolfie at the end of the day though and we went to La Tasca to share a meal. We went there as we needed the toilet (and it was the only place which would serve us at 10pm on a Sunday evening).