What I did with my bank holiday weekend
May. 7th, 2012 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rich_jacko...Drank beer, socialised, played games and watched movies, as it turns out :o)
Friday - FFS at the University Arms again for Ruby's birthday. There was much cake and many, many photos of cake.
Saturday - A real ale pub tour of Chesterfield for a colleague's "significant" birthday. We visited The Market, The Royal Oak, Spa Lane Vaults, The Rutland and The Chesterfield Arms, before heading back for a last drink in The Sheffield Tap.
Sunday - An early start for nerdery at my place. We played our shortest ever game of Arkham Horror - One of our party got devoured by the end of the first round; Nyarlathotep woke up by the end of the second; and we killed him by the end of the third. So we ended up playing the game twice more. We also indulged in simultaneous strawberries, chocolate cake, cream and mead. Mmmm...
Monday - One of these days I will remember that the cinema is always heaving with people on rainy bank holidays. Still, although it didn't go quite to plan I managed to see two very different, but both preposterous and fun films - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Avengers Assemble (again). In preparation for the latter I watched Thor again this morning, and then had to go and read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bonedancer's brilliant version of it another time ;o)
I was quite impressed with the IMAX. They've made Screen 7 quite a bit bigger and moved it closer to the seats. The sound is impressively feel-it-through-your-seat rumbley without making your ears bleed. The 3D does fall apart a bit if you're too close to the screen. Four rows back probably wasn't far enough, but it was very full. Still, I got suitably blasted at that range.
Friday - FFS at the University Arms again for Ruby's birthday. There was much cake and many, many photos of cake.
Saturday - A real ale pub tour of Chesterfield for a colleague's "significant" birthday. We visited The Market, The Royal Oak, Spa Lane Vaults, The Rutland and The Chesterfield Arms, before heading back for a last drink in The Sheffield Tap.
Sunday - An early start for nerdery at my place. We played our shortest ever game of Arkham Horror - One of our party got devoured by the end of the first round; Nyarlathotep woke up by the end of the second; and we killed him by the end of the third. So we ended up playing the game twice more. We also indulged in simultaneous strawberries, chocolate cake, cream and mead. Mmmm...
Monday - One of these days I will remember that the cinema is always heaving with people on rainy bank holidays. Still, although it didn't go quite to plan I managed to see two very different, but both preposterous and fun films - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Avengers Assemble (again). In preparation for the latter I watched Thor again this morning, and then had to go and read
bonedancer's brilliant version of it another time ;o)I was quite impressed with the IMAX. They've made Screen 7 quite a bit bigger and moved it closer to the seats. The sound is impressively feel-it-through-your-seat rumbley without making your ears bleed. The 3D does fall apart a bit if you're too close to the screen. Four rows back probably wasn't far enough, but it was very full. Still, I got suitably blasted at that range.
