Today is 10/10/10 - an aesthetically pleasing if not immediately significant date in history. It is, however, Jess's 30th birthday (10 + 10 + 10 = 30, yeah?), whose birthday party I plan to get home from Dorset for tonight. We get up late, though, and start the day by taking the dog (Pickle) for a walk in the pleasant sunshine. As soon as we get back, K gets started on making the roast dinner while I carry on watching some of the Commonwealth Games coverage on TV. It's a strangely mesmeric and slightly soporific watch, the bizarre mix of sports - moving from table tennis to synchronised diving, athletics and boxing - all kind of blurring together and making it hard to tear oneself away from. Hunger calls, though, and soon we're tucking into a rather lovely bit of beef with K's special homemade roast potatoes.
After lunch it's time to get the train back to London - which starts off pleasantly enough. Annoyingly, though, a guy gets on with his girlfriend and proceeds to play a game on his iPhone which makes the most regular, obnoxious and loud noise I've ever heard from a mobile game - certainly in public. I have my headphones, at least, meaning that I can't really justify asking him to turn it down, but it infuriates me that none of the other people around, who are clearly irritated, bother to say anything. He's not particularly scary looking either (unlike most people who use their phones to make anti-social noise on public transport) - and I'm instantly thrown into an unshakeable bad mood over the general rudeness of dickheadish people.
My mood doesn't improve when the train is forced to stop for half an hour to allow engineering works to finish up. The train's late arrival into Waterloo coupled with the ongoing tube closures in north London makes the chances of actually getting to Jess's party in Hackney pretty remote - so I reluctantly text my apologies and have an evening sipping beer and watching The X-Factor ahead of me. K heads out to a gig in Camden and I content myself with a gaudy talent show, alone.
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