Yesterday was our friend Justina's birthday, so we all went out to Pizza Express for a pizza. Steph and I had never been there before. It's a big chain, and chain restaurants often aren't that great, but I was surprisingly impressed by this one. The restaurant is basically an old Victorian courtyard that has been roofed over, so it looks pretty cool, and the food was really good. There's a lot of stuff in that part of Leeds that we don't really know. Partly because it's not such a nice area to walk through. Leeds--that part in particular--is a dirty city. The city council doesn't seem interested in making it look good.

Afterwards, we went to see a play, Rookery Nook. It was very typical 20s farce: lots of running around and speaking fast, not much of a plot and terrible caricatures of Germans. Still, it was fun and done well. No vicars in it, though. A good farce needs at least one vicar.

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Those of you who've been following Steph's journal know that Nika has been having a really bad week. She was so ill we had to leave her at the vets overnight, and she had to have drips and antibiotic injections. She's a lot better now, although I think she's still in some discomfort as she's whining a lot. When we got her back from the vets she seemed to be in shellshock: she didn't respond to hardly anything, she didn't even want to bark at anything. Once she'd caught up on sleep and got over the trauma, she was better. We're hoping this won't come back, but it's the worst illness she's had, and it was pretty upsetting.

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As Steph is due to start her new job on 4th July, we've had to hurriedly book a summer holiday before that. We're going up to Northumberland, right by Hadrian's Wall. We don't know the area, but it's supposed to be beautiful, if isolated.

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I think I've got to the stage with The Sleepers that I can send it off to my agent. This is the stage I've been dreading, not really because I'm hoping she'll like it, but because I know she has a tendency to ask for big revisions, and I'm fed up with revising the damned thing. :)