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  <title>Adventures with Kake</title>
  <subtitle>Mostly (but not entirely) about reading Chinese menus. At the moment.</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Kake</name>
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  <updated>2009-07-07T00:10:54Z</updated>
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    <title>Things I did last week.</title>
    <published>2009-06-16T23:18:12Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-07T00:10:54Z</updated>
    <category term="postal districts: se16"/>
    <category term="things i did last week"/>
    <category term="postal districts: e10"/>
    <category term="london: shepherd's bush"/>
    <category term="pubs"/>
    <category term="brewpubs"/>
    <category term="london: east ham"/>
    <category term="discworld mud"/>
    <category term="food: indian food"/>
    <category term="london: surrey quays"/>
    <category term="postal districts: e6"/>
    <category term="tea"/>
    <category term="postal districts: w12"/>
    <category term="wine"/>
    <category term="choir"/>
    <category term="london: leyton"/>
    <category term="cider"/>
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    <content type="html">On &lt;b&gt;Monday&lt;/b&gt; I had dinner at &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Vasanta_Bhavan%2C_E6_2JA"&gt;Vasanta Bhavan&lt;/a&gt; in East Ham, then headed over to &lt;a href="http://www.londonforestchoir.org/"&gt;choir&lt;/a&gt; in Leytonstone before nipping to the &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?King_William_IV_And_The_Sweet_William,_E10_6AE"&gt;William IV&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;ewan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for a quick pint of their brewed-on-the-premises beer.  The beer wasn't bad; the best of the three we tried was the Amarilla.  Posters on the walls taunted us with a not-currently-available own-brewed mild.  I do like a nice mild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Tuesday&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://mrs-leroy-brown.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://mrs-leroy-brown.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;mrs_leroy_brown&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; came over for a nice cup of tea and a chat.  More than one cup of tea, actually; between us we had earl grey, darjeeling, emperor's breakfast tea, and spiced chai latte.  I do like a nice cup of tea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Wednesday&lt;/b&gt; I went to a wine tasting at the &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Yellow_House_Bar,_SE16_2UE"&gt;Yellow House&lt;/a&gt;, along with &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://bob.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://bob.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;bob&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;ewan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://montag.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://montag.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;montag&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://flick.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://flick.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;flick&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://drplokta.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://drplokta.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;drplokta&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://ali-in-london.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://ali-in-london.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;ali_in_london&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.  It was kind of fun, though the pacing of the wine-dispensing was a little off towards the beginning and the portioning was inconsistent.  The canapes went very well with the wines though, as well as being pretty tasty in themselves.  We also had dinner there afterwards, including a couple of bottles of our favourite wines from the tasting.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way home, &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://ewan.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;ewan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; just missed catching the P12 bus, and the next one wasn't due for another 20 minutes, so he and I nipped into the &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Stanley_Arms,_SE16_2ET"&gt;Stanley Arms&lt;/a&gt; for a swift half.  It was quite nice in there; no real ale, but the place was clean, civilised, and well-kept.  It's now the closest pub to my house, given the closure of the &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Crown,_SE16_2EW"&gt;Crown&lt;/a&gt;, so I expect I'll be back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Thursday&lt;/b&gt; I didn't do anything exciting.  Just some work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Friday&lt;/b&gt; I met up with Richard to go to the cider festival at the &lt;a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Goldhawk,_W12_8HH"&gt;Goldhawk&lt;/a&gt; in Shepherd's Bush.  It was not very festivally, but they did have a fair few bottled ciders on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Saturday&lt;/b&gt; I did some bugfixing and stuff on the &lt;a href="http://discworld.atuin.net/"&gt;Discworld MUD&lt;/a&gt;, including putting some code in game that I've been working on for the past few months — a revamp of an old area that wasn't very exciting, to make it more exciting.  Go play on the Discworld MUD!  And visit the &lt;a href="http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/blog/blog.c?action=filter&amp;amp;blog=recent%20developments&amp;amp;id=178"&gt;Temple of the Listening Monks&lt;/a&gt; while you're there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On &lt;b&gt;Sunday&lt;/b&gt; I did more bugfixing on the Discworld MUD, as part of our regular Bugfix Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kake&amp;ditemid=7739" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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