Monday 20 April 2009

Visiting friends in Newark

Last weekend I took a long drive to see some friends I've not seen for about a year and a half, I'm not a very good friend, luckily Racheal and Simon are! We spent Saturday catching up and popping in to town for a few bits and bobs for going out in the evening, yey! Simon's a great photographer and took a few pics of me before heading out, somehow he managed to take a couple of good shots - given the subject ;)

Check out Simon Ross Photography.

We went in to Nottingham for the evening, first stop was the Pit & Pendulum which I really enjoyed as they were playing some really good music - I can't help being a rock-chick - even if I don't look like one always. Plus there were loads of Pirates loitering, yaaaaah! After a few drinks we moved on to @d2 which is about a 5-10 minute walk, ordinarily would be nice punctuation to an evening however on this occasion it was a bit fresh. @d2 is more trendy than the Pit & Pendulum, in that it is trendy, we had a few more drinks before NG1 opened, it's literally next door so only brief exposure to the Northern-bite.

Before going out for the night
Before heading out - Photo by Simon Ross

Now the best part about NG1 is that I got asked for ID!! I was quite shocked and flattered, I didn't have any ID on me so I had to flutter my eyelids and try and convince the bouncer I was of age - somehow I managed it, phew! The club's really cool, there are various rooms with different music not to mention a couple of chill out areas, it didn't really get too busy even towards the end of our stay.

Out at NG1
In NG1

Throughout the whole night I didn't feel uncomfortable being out in Nottingham, there were no comments, just a really enjoyable night with friends - how it should be!

Thanks to Racheal and Simon for the lovely weekend, I look forward to seeing you both again soon.

Jenn xx

3 comments:

alan said...

Going through the images in your friend's gallery, there are some very fine ones indeed!

None finer than his one of you, though! I tried to "embiggen" it but Flickr didn't like that...

Reading through the services and prices list seems very thorough and very reasonable. Photography seems to grow harder to make a living at with each generation so I'm happy for everyone who really wants to and can!

I'm also glad that you had such a great time out! The pace of life seems to offer less of those instead of more despite all our advances and "labor saving" devices; a truly good one is food for the soul!

alan

Lynn Jones said...

Sounds like you had a really good time out in "Nottm" :)

> Northern-bite

LOL. Welcome to the Midlands! :)

Calista said...

Simon did some great photography on you. You look stunning cool.