{"id":3487,"date":"2010-07-25T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:37:44","slug":"ha-ha-fooled-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"Ha-ha, fooled you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for lunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ash is a unique guy. Genuinely talented and blessed with an abundance of creativity, Ash chooses to spend most of his time working in the public sector; providing valuable services to some of our fellow humans most in need of assistance.<\/p>\n

With his free time, Ash indulges his creative talents as a composer\/musician of serious worth – we have shared just a fraction of his musical talent with our podcast listeners, under the names of artists ‘Warning! Heat Ray!’ and ‘Unsound’.<\/p>\n

And he writes; as a music analyst\/reviewer, Ash is one of the few muso-writers whose opinions – and writing – I hold in genuinely high regard.<\/p>\n

Lunch, with Ash, was brilliant; that’s a measure of what a genuinely nice guy he is.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon we went back to the West End, had a meal in an Italian restaurant in Berner Street, then walked to the place where we were to meet up with author Alex Marsh<\/a> and renowned blogger Jonny B<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Marsh and Jonny B are the same person, obv.<\/p>\n

The occasion was an informal launch of Alex’s new book ‘Sex and Bowls and Rock & Roll’, or as Alex put it ‘Not a book launch, just a drink in a pub with a few friends’.<\/p>\n

Sitting next to Alex was the deliciously gorgeous Catherine Sanderson<\/a> (aka internationally renowned author and erstwhile blogger, Petite Anglaise<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So that wasn’t very intimidating at all, was it? Jonny B and Petite Anglaise sitting next to me.<\/p>\n

Erm, yes. I may have slipped in to idiot mode.<\/p>\n

More people arrived.<\/p>\n

Mike Atkinson (aka influential blogger\/journalist Troubled Diva<\/a>) was followed by a pair of very high-profile internet characters: bloggers, writers and podcasters, Cliff Jones<\/a> and Mr Angry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then the gorgeous Girl With A One-Track Mind<\/a> rocked up.<\/p>\n

The very lovely (he once did me a favour by personalising a copy of his book<\/a> for Soph) Andrew Viner<\/a> followed on behind.<\/p>\n

And there were others!<\/p>\n

People whose names I can’t remember; intelligent, articulate people who said bright, witty (if not outrageously funny) things.<\/p>\n

It was a fun, funny evening.<\/p>\n

We bailed out, leaving the survivors to carry on, around 8pm.<\/p>\n

By the time we got home, watched Big Brother drank tea and fell in to bed it was midnight.<\/p>\n

This morning Soph and I are teetering around the house like a pair of newly-dead zombies.<\/p>\n

Why teetering around the house? Because we are not the grown-up people we pretended to be on two occasions, in front of all those folk, yesterday.<\/p>\n

We are a pair of kids\u00c2\u00a0 who went out and successfully hoodwinked them all into believing that we were grown-up.<\/p>\n

Ha-ha, fooled you!<\/p>\n

But not only was it really nice to meet everyone – from lunch with Ash to to the afternoon\/evening’s meeting with Jonny B and all of his friends – it was very pleasant to meet such a thoroughly nice group of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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