Tags: London, dress, Brockley, shooting, Glasgow, wedding
Date: 11 November 2007 21:19:56
I'm just back from a great weekend - seeing my lovely bridesmaid was great, we bought a dress really quickly (not in Goodge St though ferijen, we avoided the wedding specialist places), and figured out a good hen night venue. I also caught up with a few other friends, and today the grand meeting of the parents went well and they seemed to get on and didn't show us up :)
It was a bit disconcerting though yesterday to wake up and find a police car outside my friend's house with tape wrapped round her For Sale sign cordoning off the road (as she said, that would make a great impression if anyone had come round to view the house!). Apparently there had been a shooting in the small hours of the morning just down the road, although I didn't hear a thing despite not sleeping that brilliantly. I know Glasgow doesn't have a reputation for being all sweetness and light as a city, but it still seems like if there's a shooting or stabbing we're still shocked - there it was more "oh, there's been another shooting". Lovely.