This is still my stuff.

It's a long time since I've been to one of these proper rave jobs, but it was Cookie's birthday bash, and joining him and the crowd in going along seemed like a mighty fine idea when we spilled out of the bar, even though I had to cough twenty notes to a tout to get in. The do, called "Bugged Out", was in a warehouse in Hearn St, off Curtain Road in Shoreditch. "Too Many DJs" played along with various hard/electro-house types, and it was a pretty decent set-up. Proper dirty warehouse with no frills, but what was there was solid; just a shit-hot sound system, couple of podia, some robo-scans (YEEAHH) and other lighting things I don't know the names of, decent bogs, just-about-bearably-priced drinks (three and a half quid for a beer) and genuinely friendly, unstressed barfolk. Fun.

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This, my friend, is the real Swiss thing. With real honey. This, my friend, is the king of chocolate mountain bars. It's what a Toblerone wants to be when it grows up, but whose panache it will never have.

But hey, a chocolate bar can dream, right?

The kind folks where I work gave me a Jessops voucher for xmas, which I just put towards the cost of this little delight.

Now all I have to do is learn to use it. Oh, and get obsessed about photographic gear and spend my time mooning over pictures of macro and zoom lenses, of course.

… is that you can get circular packs containing 6 of the above foil-wrapped triangles of cream cheese. Something like Dairylea, you might think? Nothing special? Well, you'd be on the right lines, except that it's nicer cheese, and, oh yeah … IT'S FILLED WITH HOT CHILI PEPPERS. Yes. It also comes with meat or mushroom fillings. I love this stuff.

Last Friday night, Highbury Corner. Met up with some mates for a few pints before going to see this crowd of psycho babblers upstairs at the Garage (I think). I don't know what they were called, but - I say, they were jolly energetic. The bass-player was an extremely frightening man, throwing his double-bass around the place as though it were, I don't know, a blow-up doll. As I said to a pal at the time, who knows how he manages to fit band practices in amongst all that weight training?

I didn't stay that long.