And i couldn't believe how terrible it was. It just kept on being horrible and unignorable and sore for ages, and if we lived in a Perfect World, I would not have stopped whingeing about it for even a second.
Simon came to stay with me just after I hurt it*, and we couldn't do anything except go to the heath and walk up and down the hill to Mae and Dan's. Simon was a real sport about it, and he pretended that he wasn't a bit dumps that he had sort of wasted a trip to London. We did have a good time though. We had a nice dinner party on the roof, and Mae and Dan told us a terrible story about this estate agent who showed them round a place in Archway** where the biggest selling point of the flat was that it had a microwave. Except the guy called it a Microwave Cooker. Dan does the accent when he tells the story and it sort of comes out as Microwave Cookah. Also, the estate agent told them that everyone said he looked like Sean Penn. It is quite easy to draw parallels between a flat where the best thing in it is a Microwave Cookah, and a person where the best thing about them is that they look a bit like Sean Penn.
Simon thinks you can see in this photo that I am limping. I don't know that the photo captures how dramatically I was listing to the right, but there is definitely something a bit funny about the way I'm walking there.
*I don't know how I hurt it. It wasn't anything dramatic or any kind of a good story. I think I just fell over a bit in Oxford.
** Archway isn't very nice. The only person I know in London*** who has been mugged got mugged in Archway
*** This Swedish guy Andreas who works with Mae. He is small and thin and tells the most incredibly far out and inappropriate sexual stories all the time. Just after Mae found out she was pregnant, Andreas told Dan all secretly that he found heavily pregnant women sexually attractive. It would be fine, if a bit strange, if he had said "I find pregnant women attractive". But it's a whole other kind of a thing to say "I find heavily pregnant women sexually attractive." That is vintage Andreas. I think Dan was quite freaked out.
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