Just 3 days remaining in the UK for me, and I have to say it was one of the best Wednesdays yet.
Finally received my Supra Vaiders which look and feel great. So glad I finally tracked them down in the UK after Route One sold out within a day. I can see why they are renowned for being so tough, the material is pretty much doubled up all over. The profile shape has to be the selling point for me, absolutely perfect design.. perhaps slightly on the narrow side but this is day 1 for them so I’m expecting them to break in soon enough.
Packed the suitcase early on, which weighed in at 33kgs – not too bad considering that left very little to go in the hand baggage. So I removed my paint pens and baseball glove which brought it back to 31kg. Hope that they can let 1kg go at check-in.
After talking to Jane, I went to Makro to see about buying a leather jacket I’d spotted there a couple of days earlier. When I’d last seen it it was £120 which I thought was reasonable for a real leather jacket with an ounce of quality to it.. to my delight however Makro had a promotion on all leather jackets which meant they were all half price! £60 for the jacket.. excellent deal, very happy with it.
Spent the evening with my good friend Ross and Guy, at the Watershed where we had a few pints and watched Steve McQueens ‘Hunger’ which I highly recommend.
HUNGER (2008) – Steve McQueen
Incredible performances involving delicate and adult subject matter, with gripping a 10 minute plus single shot (pictured above) and a highly emotional story based on the hunger strikes of an Irish jail during the IRA ‘troubles’. Beautiful cinematography that successfully manages to balance the grim scenes inside the prison without removing you from the disgusting conditions – involving many scenes of dirty protests and physical harm from the hunger strikes.
