26 June 2005

You've been blogged!

Last night we had a splendid nosh up chez Jamie Oliver's restaurant "15". Fabulous food, very good service and reasonably priced considering it was central London and has a big name attached to the place. Jamie failed to put in an appearance but the wine was so good we might not have noticed if he'd been the girl serving extra bread!

After the meal we staggered out, feeling excessively full, and headed into Islington to add decandence to indulgence. We sat for a long time at the organic bar putting the world to rights.

Heading back down into the underground we watched, with bemused horror, a young man lose his step on the escalator, twist 90 degrees, fall down several unforgiving metal steps and grind to a halt, legs showing ten to two. He said 'Ouch' in a overly controlled manner which made the whole episode absolutely hilarious. Gallant Mr Kumquat ran to see if he was ok but once he had dusted himself off and scuttled round the corner to hide his embarrassment, we all fell about.

Got home some time after 2. Great evening out. Must do more of this kind of thing.

4 comments:

Big Dog said...

I heard about the crazy fall from the borrower. i had to come read it for myself. Angel has the longest escalators in the world: official! Apart from in Moscow, where, when you get off the escalator, you find yourself at your destination.

Next time you visit the organic make sure the borrower calls me and makes me come and drink freedom with you.

kumquat said...

lotus - good to know that someone of your professional stature does silly things like trip over in front of important people! hee hee :) don't seem to have seen/talked to you much for a while. probably mostly because of this new job. been coming in pretty tired and have had next to no time for reading and therefore palimp.contributing. great to see you.
borrower - yes. very funny. even funnier than bags. official.
big dog - i nag borrower shamelessly to get you to come any time we go out. next time we have to meet where we're not obliged to shout over the top of live music and/or resort to bastardised sign language.

kumquat said...

...better still, gimme your mobile and *i'll* call you and/or make you feel like london is too small for you to disappear into. heh heh heh.
(sorry had another night out with borrower, it turns me into some kind of maniac)

kumquat said...

haha@churchill. yes, i gave it 5, not for its high cultural value you'll be pleased to hear, but just because it hit the spot when i needed an evening of silly entertainment.