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Puppies Like Donuts!
Mar. 22nd, 2016 11:25 pmAfter a couple of aborted attempts during previous weeks, on Friday I finally got chance to practice guitar again. Stray and Luna were exceptionally late, arriving at 10pm, which meant my practice was somewhat curtailed but I was surprised just how much I could remember considering my last session was seven weeks ago. I am still waiting my guitar to be delivered from my parents but there is a chance that it could arrive as soon as this Friday, which would allow me far more time to practice. In addition to this, I have also bought the cable I need to plug it into my PC so hopefully after Easter I will be able to dedicate some serious time to this pursuit. In the end, we did about ninety minutes of guitar work and I did start to see the improvement, but I am hoping to accelerate this over the coming weeks. While we were playing, we shared some chips and dips while afterwards we settled down to watch Adam Buxton's BUG TV series, which was basically a commentary show on a range of different music videos. The YouTube comments sections weren't as good as his stint on Buzzcocks but some of his own videos were fantasic. We also saw The Duck Song and all of its sequels, including The Honey Bear, which irritated the ginger fox no end.
Saturday was furmeet day and we had to relocate to Shuffledog on account of the White Rabbit being booked for a prior engagement. They were hosting a DJ event throughout the day and deep into the evening, meaning we couldn't have our usual monthly meet there. We didn't mind too much though as this had been pencilled in long before we had even approached them about hosting us regularly, plus Shuffledog is a fantastic back-up venue too. We were a little down on numbers, largely coincidentally as many of the regulars were pre-disposed, but we did have nine fursuiters in attendence which is on the high-end for the Leeds Meets. Wanting to reduce calorie consumption and realising that there were very few new beers on tap that we hadn't tried before, I decided to bring my fursuit to a Leeds Meet for the first time in half a year. I was very glad I did as the walk down Briggate was absolutely fantastic and I got a lot of positive reactions from people. One kid let me have his donut while I had a lot of fun trying to put off the Morris dancers who had congregated outside the Victoria Shopping Centre. Meanwhile, I tried to interract with a group of Spanish tourists who tried to get rid of me by speaking en español only to discover that I can speak the language too, much to their shock. I also got called into a comic book store to read a comic book while I was the bane of the walk organisers by often being left behind due to having too much fun and being distracted too often. It was like the good old days really, a relaxing walk where I could easily assume my character, and this was why it was so much fun. We posed for some photographs overlooking the flyover next to Shuffledog while in the meet itself, we kept it simple, just having a few drinks and generally socialising. There were quite a few new people there and I think they had a good time, with Avon introducing us to an Irish friend and an American friend who were staying with him over the weekend.
I had grabbed a rather tasty vegetarian haggis toastie in Shuffledog for lunch (which tasted mildly of haggis but lacked the really deep rich flavour) and, again trying to watch my weight, I decided against going out for an evening meal. This worked for Stray and Luna as they quickly arranged plans with Luna's mother, which meant they had to call back at ours to pick up the guitars before heading on to Bradford. As a consequence, we were back home by 8pm, when we made some cheese toasties and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
One of the main reasons why I was watching my calorie intake was that Thursday was the beer festival and Sunday was quite a heavy day as we went to watch Zootropolis at the cinema followed by going around to Adia and Soma's new house for their official housewarming party. I had wanted to see Zootropolis for ages and had started to feel increasingly frustrated due to the UK's exceptionally late release date. My friends in SE Asia had seen it in mid-February and having to wait until late March to see it here was quite an exquisite form of torture. In addition to this, it was becoming increasingly difficult to avoid spoilers, what with the US release being early March and a lot of UK furs having seen it at Nordic Fuzzcon during the same weekend. However, luckily I did manage to avoid all major spoilers and upon noticing that the local Odeon was showing pre-screenings a week before general release, I jumped at the opportunity to go. I thought it would make a good pre-housewarming party event so I informed Adia, Soma and Taneli, while at the meet, Avon told me that he had coincidentally booked the same showing for himself and his two friends. We arrived at the cinema incredibly early, fearing that it may be rammed, but as it turned out there were only four other people in the showing in addition to us, making for a pleasurable experience all round. We were quite early though and had to wait for half an hour before we were let in, with the excitement building. And it was definitely worth the wait - it was an absolutely fantastic film, with subtle humour and something clearly written with furries as well as children in mind. I have never seen the same film more than once at the cinema but I may have to do it with this movie, as I left the theatre desperately wanting to see it again. I won't lie that I have a crush on both Nick and Hops, which seems quite rare as most of the Fandom seem to lust after the dancing tigers at the end of the film (which do nothing for me but then I find muscles quite offputting). On the way out, I picked up a Zootropolis poster which is now hanging on my wall (indeed I am looking at it now) while earlier this week I bought a whole range of merchandise off Amazon.
We said goodbye to Avon and his friends soon after, going around to Adia and Soma's lovely new house to break in the sofa. It's a nice sofa, DFS's finest, but first we decided to have a little walk around the neighbourhood as the light began to fade. Wolfie led the way as he used to work in this area, and he took us to the top of a ridge through a park, from which you get a stunning view over Leeds on one side and Farnley on the other. It was quite nice looking at the twinkling lights in the gloaming as well as the fantastically named Facefood takeaway but it was less nice scrambling down a steep hill towards a battered old dumped fridge. Still, it was a great walk, and once we were back and had been barked at by a rather loud local Jack Russell called Milo, we sat and watched the whole of series one of Father Ted while eating takeaway food. We ordered from three different places, with Taneli's turning up half an hour before ours and Adia and Soma's so late it was practically their breakfast. Taneli's chips were nice while our pizzas were somewhat soggy and underwhelming, but we had a great night nonetheless, capping off a fantastic weekend.
Saturday was furmeet day and we had to relocate to Shuffledog on account of the White Rabbit being booked for a prior engagement. They were hosting a DJ event throughout the day and deep into the evening, meaning we couldn't have our usual monthly meet there. We didn't mind too much though as this had been pencilled in long before we had even approached them about hosting us regularly, plus Shuffledog is a fantastic back-up venue too. We were a little down on numbers, largely coincidentally as many of the regulars were pre-disposed, but we did have nine fursuiters in attendence which is on the high-end for the Leeds Meets. Wanting to reduce calorie consumption and realising that there were very few new beers on tap that we hadn't tried before, I decided to bring my fursuit to a Leeds Meet for the first time in half a year. I was very glad I did as the walk down Briggate was absolutely fantastic and I got a lot of positive reactions from people. One kid let me have his donut while I had a lot of fun trying to put off the Morris dancers who had congregated outside the Victoria Shopping Centre. Meanwhile, I tried to interract with a group of Spanish tourists who tried to get rid of me by speaking en español only to discover that I can speak the language too, much to their shock. I also got called into a comic book store to read a comic book while I was the bane of the walk organisers by often being left behind due to having too much fun and being distracted too often. It was like the good old days really, a relaxing walk where I could easily assume my character, and this was why it was so much fun. We posed for some photographs overlooking the flyover next to Shuffledog while in the meet itself, we kept it simple, just having a few drinks and generally socialising. There were quite a few new people there and I think they had a good time, with Avon introducing us to an Irish friend and an American friend who were staying with him over the weekend.
I had grabbed a rather tasty vegetarian haggis toastie in Shuffledog for lunch (which tasted mildly of haggis but lacked the really deep rich flavour) and, again trying to watch my weight, I decided against going out for an evening meal. This worked for Stray and Luna as they quickly arranged plans with Luna's mother, which meant they had to call back at ours to pick up the guitars before heading on to Bradford. As a consequence, we were back home by 8pm, when we made some cheese toasties and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
One of the main reasons why I was watching my calorie intake was that Thursday was the beer festival and Sunday was quite a heavy day as we went to watch Zootropolis at the cinema followed by going around to Adia and Soma's new house for their official housewarming party. I had wanted to see Zootropolis for ages and had started to feel increasingly frustrated due to the UK's exceptionally late release date. My friends in SE Asia had seen it in mid-February and having to wait until late March to see it here was quite an exquisite form of torture. In addition to this, it was becoming increasingly difficult to avoid spoilers, what with the US release being early March and a lot of UK furs having seen it at Nordic Fuzzcon during the same weekend. However, luckily I did manage to avoid all major spoilers and upon noticing that the local Odeon was showing pre-screenings a week before general release, I jumped at the opportunity to go. I thought it would make a good pre-housewarming party event so I informed Adia, Soma and Taneli, while at the meet, Avon told me that he had coincidentally booked the same showing for himself and his two friends. We arrived at the cinema incredibly early, fearing that it may be rammed, but as it turned out there were only four other people in the showing in addition to us, making for a pleasurable experience all round. We were quite early though and had to wait for half an hour before we were let in, with the excitement building. And it was definitely worth the wait - it was an absolutely fantastic film, with subtle humour and something clearly written with furries as well as children in mind. I have never seen the same film more than once at the cinema but I may have to do it with this movie, as I left the theatre desperately wanting to see it again. I won't lie that I have a crush on both Nick and Hops, which seems quite rare as most of the Fandom seem to lust after the dancing tigers at the end of the film (which do nothing for me but then I find muscles quite offputting). On the way out, I picked up a Zootropolis poster which is now hanging on my wall (indeed I am looking at it now) while earlier this week I bought a whole range of merchandise off Amazon.
We said goodbye to Avon and his friends soon after, going around to Adia and Soma's lovely new house to break in the sofa. It's a nice sofa, DFS's finest, but first we decided to have a little walk around the neighbourhood as the light began to fade. Wolfie led the way as he used to work in this area, and he took us to the top of a ridge through a park, from which you get a stunning view over Leeds on one side and Farnley on the other. It was quite nice looking at the twinkling lights in the gloaming as well as the fantastically named Facefood takeaway but it was less nice scrambling down a steep hill towards a battered old dumped fridge. Still, it was a great walk, and once we were back and had been barked at by a rather loud local Jack Russell called Milo, we sat and watched the whole of series one of Father Ted while eating takeaway food. We ordered from three different places, with Taneli's turning up half an hour before ours and Adia and Soma's so late it was practically their breakfast. Taneli's chips were nice while our pizzas were somewhat soggy and underwhelming, but we had a great night nonetheless, capping off a fantastic weekend.
