Oh dear, it’s the perfunctory “quickly blog something even though it’s almost midnight and you’re really too tired to be coherent” post.

Okay, here goes: Tonight Jeremy and I had a lovely Thai dinner with Richard and Natalie at a restaurant they recommended to us: Sukhothai Palace on Middle Street in Brighton.

Jeremy and I ordered our usual benchmark dishes for Thai restaurants: som tam (spicy papaya salad), laab (ground meat with chilies, shallots and fresh herbs) and Thai green curry. And to my delight, they were very tasty indeed. The som tam and laab in particular were gorgeous and flavorful and took me right back to our favorite food stall in Bangkok. My duck curry was yummy too, though I think by the time it arrived, my tastebuds were somewhat numbed by the fiery, fiery laab.

After we stuffed ourselves with a Thai feast and cooled the chile heat with some frosty Singha beers, we all headed over to the Hope to catch a gig by Caramel Jack—one of the first bands I ever saw in Brighton (if not the first) and a band we’ve played with ourselves several times since. It was a very fun evening and a very welcome respite from the masses and masses and masses of work that I’ve had to do all week long.

But tomorrow is another early start, so it’s off to bed for me…