Saturday__ Picnic,Pub,Invocation

'The Vampire's Picnic'
Photomontage by Jeff Wall

Saturday was excellent throughout, because of good company...the events were secondary tho highly enjoyable. miss_deltress came over to my place and we got a cab to Highgate to join the LVG people in Waterlow Park.
The picnic should have been a miserable affair, given that we were sat under black clouds in a cold windy park, but it was one of the best outdoor nosh+gab fests I've ever been to.
I was delighted also to meet the wierd, wired and wonderful sahra_patroness also combat_kitten, a very nice person indeed, and several interesting others (not on LJ) with whom I had good chats with throughout the day and evening. demondaz is a really good laugh, sharp as a razor, and his missus enlyyl is so interesting, beautiful and quite overshadowed by that peacock!!!
Of course that elusive enigma chyldecatcher was NOT there. Huh.
The pub we went on to was a brilliant choice, as it had loads of room for us to commandeer a large corner area.
So... great evening there, then on downtown to Invocation.
O wow, that DJ dave_exile is some Jeckyll and Hyde. There was little comparison to the last Invo I went to...this one was smokin!
All the right boxes were ticked...full, dervish whirling dance floor and energetic/powerful/driving music (including oldy favourites... at one point the excellent and beautifully nasally-challenged sinbadsilk, me and the rest of the table belted out the lyrics to Ziggy Stardust)
This all added up to a Great Atmosphere.
By the time me and miss_deltress got a taxi to our seperate homes, I was pretty much done in, and looking forward to getting indoors, having a gorgeous relaxing scented bath then schlumping about in favourite silk pyjamas.
Which is what I am STILL doing now.
So sorry to miss batpuss's Tanz Macabre in Soho this evening, but I was finally dead to the world by 6pm.
NB whilst typing this (excrutiatingly slowly as usual) I have had to go outside THREE times to throw sticks for the cat-boys...they had no games all day yesterday and have been mreowing sharply for the participation of their human.