Week 257: Swans

A week of interesting cleans, towel animals, goodbye dinners, Brick Lane curry, a weekend at Butlins, and another Gareth Gates appearance.

Posted on by Rowan Manning.
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  • We’ve had a rotating cast of cleaners since Vanessa, our regular, moved back to Italy. There have been ups and downs, I’m probably always gonna feel slightly awkward about having a cleaner and so I’m quite bad at explaining what I want and providing feedback.

    Four towels folded into swan shapes, the necks and beaks of the swans form a heart.

    A particularly notable clean involved towel animals, furniture moved into jaunty angles, and every loose item in the house being placed indiscriminately into the nearest drawer.

  • On Wednesday we had a goodbye dinner for Gallal on Brick Lane. The Pride of Spitalfields is a nice little pub and I ate an unreasonable amount of food.

  • Gareth Gates smiling, singing, and looking out over the audience in a blue-lit venue

    This weekend we went back to Butlins in Skegness for another 2000s Weekender. Once again, it was really fun. The lineup wasn’t quite as good as last time but we did get to see Gareth Gates again. He’s refined his set list to be all covers except Spirit in the Sky, not sure how I feel about that. Tinchy Stryder was pretty good.

    No hangovers 👍 partly because we played it a little safer than usual but mostly (pretty sure science would agree) because our final drink of each night was a Berocca.