Rowan Tree and Red Thread

We're up in Dublin for the Easter holidays (bless my third level institution for their week off for staff) and to visit mother, brother and sister in law. Taking advantage of my mother's offer of baby sitting we headed out to a friend's place to watch the new Doctor Who, eat pizza and catch up with a gang of friends we don't get to see all that often. Living in Cork really has us out of the loop of the circle of old college friends.


So we enjoyed Tennant's new Doctor, the medically-induced zombies, the ludicrous story line and the line "textbook enigmatic". I'm cautiously optimistic about Tennant. He's got some flair and lunacy in common with Eccleston but managed to be completely a new and distinct Doctor in just a short outing.


We then had dinner. sammywol and I had Thai, along with another of the group, while the rest had pizzas. Some of the pizzas were upgraded! I think this just meant that the mozzerella was proper buffalo-sourced, but maybe they were pizzas v2.0 in other ways. The thai stuff was delicious and I snarfed my pad thai up in no time. Despite this I managed to embarrass myself with the banoffi AND the baklava too. Or I would have embarrassed myself if I hadn't had those glands out when I was six.

Conversation was on the hysterical side of odd, and I remember an involved discussion that arrived at us taking the decision to start a new website after the model of Book Crossing. We, for reasons that aren't entirely clear, are going to launch Pants Crossing on the unsuspecting world. "I hope these pants give you as much pleasure as they gave me. I like to feel there's a little bit of me in every pair of pants I pass on."