Uncanny or Depressing?

I decided to take Greg out tonight. We deserved a special meal to fit the celebratory mood of my leave. Naturally, I was going to drive. Greg said 'shall I drive'? Hmmm, I thought, that'll be interesting. He said he knew where we were going and wrote it on a slip of paper which he placed in his shirt pocket. WTF? When did he become Derren Brown?

He drove unerringly to the destination I had in mind, the Koh Thai restaurant (http://www.eatkohthai.com/) just outside Fareham. So, we don't need to talk to each other now; he just knows what I am thinking. Anyway, it is closed on Mondays so we returned to Fareham centre to try to go Cafe Tusk. It was closed for kitchen refurbishment. We ate in Ask which is a decent chain. Arguably a little expensive, certainly for the starter, the food was excellent and served charmingly by a pretty Slovakian lady.

In an attempt to keep my blogs readable I sometimes abbreviate them but this is not always intentional and interesting bits get missed out. At the wedding reception on Saturday there were two occurrences of note which I forgot that evening. Guests were entertained in the lobby by close up magic which was outstanding. I first experienced this at the Criterion restaurant in London's West End. Tonight, as then, I was as close as I could be without touching. The tricks were jaw dropping; misdirection at its most excellent. I thought I was watching but I saw impossible things happen. We both had what Hollywood likes to know as 'wardrobe malfunctions', the price to pay, I suppose, for buying cheaply. Historically, we have not liked to buy expensive dinner dress because we use it only infrequently and cannot guarantee not to outgrow it.

On Sunday, returning from Southampton, my eye was caught by an unfamilar car. Marked 'WiLL Cypha' (sic) it piqued my curiosity. It turns out that it is a 2003+ Yaris derivative; had you ever heard of it?

Today, I took only one photograph. I had been rather intimidated earlier by some Flickr statistics. Over the weekend the site's 5 billionth photograph was uploaded - members upload 3000 a minute. What kind of servers do they have? I wonder if they use cloud technology, a fascinating concept which does not seem yet to have taken off for individual use. I think I now understand why my photographs find it hard to get viewed. However, I was asked to add one today to the improbable group 'Chinese Restaurant Worldwide Documentation Project'. I swear that is true (look on my photostream). I had taken a photograph of my local takeaway as part of my own documentation of Lee on Solent. You may be reassured to know that the group does not accept photographs of establishments in China or Taiwan where, one would imagine, there are a lot of Chinese restaurants.