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Saturday 24th July 2004
 
I had a cat in my house last night. Downstairs in the kitchen, I went to draw the curtains, when I noticed this tiny, tortoise-shell coloured cat outside. I opened the kitchen window to try and let it in, but it couldn't work out how to get from where it was standing to where the open window was. So, erm . . . I went to the front door to let it in. The cat was just wandering around my living room, being curious. The picture with the flash was an accident, as I didn't want to startle the cat too much, but all the other pictures were just coming out blurred. So . . . yeah. But the cat was tiny . . . and skinny. But I wasn't giving it any food, as I know what cats are like. The owners will have spent a load of money on vaccinations, cat food and lord knows what else already . . . but as soon as someone else comes along, perhaps with more interesting food, the cat's out of there . . . couldn't care less about who its 'owner' is.
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. . . so it eventually tired of being curious and just sat next to Tania on the sofa for a while, purring away . . . Later on, the cat kind of freaked a bit, and was just staring at a point on the wall for ages. I thought maybe the cat was staring at Tania's shadow, but I don't know . . . the spot was close to where I once saw a flash of light, like a camera flash . . . but as that flash was in my peripheral vision, I assumed it to be some kind of retinal thing, you know? The flash occured on my retina, but not necessarily anywhere else. So . . . the cat was staring at this point on the wall, being weird. When I tried to move the cat along, it gave this strange miaow and striked my hand with it paw, although as an act of defence, it was pretty lame, unless it wasn't intending to harm me . . . there were no claws involved, you see. Anyway . . . the cat kind of wandered around a bit and then I led it outside. A few hours later, when I went over to M****'s house, the cat was outside again, and made a dash inside, but I grabbed it and put it back outside again. That's the thing, see? You let them in once, and they think they're now onto something.
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So, yeah . . . later on (22:11, 22:20, 22:20) and here we are at the Hogshead (around Call Lane). The taxis kind of messed things up a bit this night, so instead of sending a single 5-seater, City Cabs were gonna send a single 4-seater. So that's why we got there rather late. Left to right in the first picture we have Security Dave, Nicola, Penrith Dave and Tania. Then, in the middle picture, that's Rich with his birthday present from M**** - one of those bubble gun things. You know . . . slot the batteries in, attach the tube of bubble mixture, pull the trigger and you get bubbles. I think it's Rich's birthday on Monday, but this was the nearest weekend, see. In the other picture, that's Liz and Anthony.
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(23:50/23:52)This is the inside of Lux, another of those bars under some railway arches. The very same arches that support the same train track that goes over Bar Home (have I said this before? Am I like a stuck record?). It took me a while to get here, as I had to go find a cash machine. You're probably thinking, "What's with the black and white?" Well, the reason is . . . I felt my senses being bombarded a bit in here, what with the music (kind of at that volume where, unless you can do sign language, you have to shout at someone else's ear from about a foot away in order to be heard) and the garish lights and decor. So I thought I'd bring it down a peg or two. You see? Anyway, the first picture . . . that's M**** in motion. Middle picture . . . that's M**** and Simon. I'm not sure where everyone else had gone at this point. Nicola, Gemma and them lot had gone, erm . . . well, I don't know. Rich? Where did Rich and his friends go? Maybe they headed towards the Faversham . . . I just don't know. I just don't know.
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