The Skyline of France May 2011

Weekend

Oh man not another end of the weekend and a long week ahead of work. I kind of miss those strings of Bank holidays with the extra day we were given due to the Royal Weeding as well as that extra day holiday after the end of May Bank holiday due to the Queens Unofficial Birthday (Apparently there 2 separate days she celebrates, which honestly I am not too sure why, but its a holiday). This weekend I did sadly spend about 2-3 hours on a Saturday afternoon catching up with work as I have somehow been covering 2 job roles the last 1-2 months, but that will end soon as luckily they have found a replacement to my old work. But yeah I did manage to finish on a reasonable time where I went to catch up with some of the old faces within the London Hardcore scene, where yeah it was the usual sort of jokes about the usual day to day events of some of the guys. They were all going to the gig (LBU show) at the 12 Bar, but I went to for skate at Southbank. As I was on the way I ran into this homeless man very near Southbank begging near the stairs. What was sad about this was that I sort of knew this guy as he use to skate London, and he was pretty good, olling massive gaps & Rail bars at Southbank which I have never seen anyone do. Yeah he was asking if I knew anyone who wanted to squat nearby etc etc which I did not know anyone. Quite sad as this guy has done a bit of hard drugs such as a bit of crack. Anyway I do hope he will pick himself up soon as he is quite a nice guy. After my brief chat I did spend a good 2 hours skating which just wore me down. But I am happy I had a nice session. There was this live band playing nearby where some of the Southbank guys went over to chill and see. Yeah very laid back Saturday and my Sunday was pretty much at Rough Trade and chilling around Shoreditch drinking coffee with a mate of mine. It was a grew rainy day today after all.