One of those 'it's-a-small-world' instances and a Hollywood actress

We said no to bottomless drinks at brunch yesterday. Well done, the Thirlways!

However, I didn't say no to a fresh mozarella ball plus parma ham from a deli near ours. $53 dollars later Phil feels slightly bruised.

It has properly lashed it down the last few days. As in monsoon Asia/ Cardiff weather. The rain bounces up off the pavement and your pants are still soaking hours after. You smell like damp dog all day. The sun is out again today.

Very boring but we had our first uneventful laundry excursion yesterday. Huzzah.

Then we caught up with my friend, Amy from the Netherlands for her birthday. She's here with another friend from Canada whose birthday it also was, and a friend from Boston. The common link amongst them was that they had all lived in South Africa together. We first went for a drink at this cool bar called the Anyway Cafe with the grumpiest waitress I've ever met. Boo to you, waitress.

Then another of Amy's friends from her South Africa days joined us and I instantly recognised her face. We both had that scrunched up expression where you're trying to work something painful out on our faces.
Me: I know you from somewhere. Where are you from?
Tuva: I'm from Norway.
Amy: But she lived in London.
Me: What did you do in London.
Tuva: I was studying.
Me: At SOAS, on the Development Studies course and in 2007/2008, right?

How small is this world that I would meet a Norwegian in New York with whom I studied in London six years previous through a friend who we had met in Devon (I met Amy in school in Devon before she moved to Holland) and South Africa? It's pretty incredible.

Then we had a late-night drunken chat to the night doorman, who told us we have a Hollywood actress living in our building. I have a feeling that she lives on our floor, as one of the other doormen mentioned that there's a pregnant, British actress there, though it would be weird as the flat he was talking about is the one that always stenches of weed when we walk past. Interesting...