I'm not going to bother writing much about this weekend since Mike wrote a (extremely) long post, pretty much covering it... But I felt I had to respond to anyway.... :-)

Four of us (me, Mike, Claire and Surovy) went bowling last night... and as Mike put it, I appeared to completely lose the ability to bowl! I think I actually must have broken some kind of record, I managed to get the measly score of 76, yet, I bowled four strikes in the same game!? Hmmm.... That's probably because after every strike I got one pin down (or less) on the next bowl. Doh!

Anyway, Mike did, however, neglect to mention that we went to play pool afterwards - well after a very nice pizza at Pizza Express first... And Surovy and I beat him and Claire, seven games to nil! Sorry Mike... ;-)

So that helped the embarrassment of the bowling a little at least!

That's all I had to say anyway. Couldn't resist.

Oh yeah, another grad course for work next week, so down in Bracknell again for a couple of days (joy!), the course being Business Writing Basics... oh god, even thinking about it's making me want to fall asleep! Ah well, out the office for a couple of days, can't complain I suppose!

More later...

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Random rants

Well, as i've not posted on here for nearly a month now, it's a bit late for a Christmas / New Year post, but still, hope everyone had a good one anyway!

Not sure why I haven't posted really, was pretty busy and a lot of stuff happening over and around Christmas, but that's no excuse I know!

Christmas was pretty much normal though, was fun on Christmas day, seemed to play on my XBox most of it with Jamie, Andy and Sean! Got various bits and bobs for Christmas, although I was pleased with the series 1-3 of 24, which will definitely keep me from being bored for a while! Also got a chocolate fountain which was quite random, but good to have a go with on new years eve... more to follow...

As I probably mentioned previously we planned a party for new year (basically because we couldn't think of anything else to do... again) but it actually happened and there was a decent amount of us for once! Seven people - Mike, Claire, Surovy, Krish, Alex, James and Me! To be fair you'd struggle to fit any more in here, especially when it comes to floor space for sleeping!

Was a very good night though, so good it was in danger of not actually ending! There was excessive amounts of alcohol involved of course... i won't even mention James and the rum... we even managed to make Jenga into a drinking game, which Surovy was very good at (if you enjoy drinking that is!) - she managed to drink about half the bottle of Apple Sourz we had allocated for people who knocked over the tower.... even though she liked to keep reminding us with her new catchphrase that "I'm not allowed!" ;-)

It was also a very good job no neighbours were in - well im assuming they weren't, either that or they had all passed out! Because the music and general volume level started to go up from about 3:30 onwards til about 5:30 (yes, 5:30) when i think we would probably have all lost our voices from singing (shouting?) so loudly, so it finally ended!



That's how parties should be! Even the legendary party from the second year at uni (if i do say so myself... ) had ended before we even got properly started! Granted that was cos everyone was probably either unconscience or throwing up somewhere!

Oh yeah, back to James and the rum... sorry James ;-) He apparently drank rather a lot and ended up with drinking half a bottle of dark rum - possibly more. The next day, well the same day should I say, but you know what I mean... he didn't move, at all. I mean literally. He had his piece of floor and never moved once all day, infact he didn't move til the next morning! He was meant to get a train back with Alex New Year's day evening, but physically couldn't get up lol.

At least it wasn't a birthday, so he can't blame (and take revenge on) anyone other than himself this time! :)

So yeah, that was new year! Been back at work three days now and can't be arsed already, oh well only 361 days left til next new year!

I will attempt to follow with some photo's too... yes mike had his camera out and of course Alex had a fair few classics in there as always, so keep an eye out on gallery soon...

Labels: Christmas / New Year, Nights out / Nights in

Just a quick one about this weekend... did absolutely bugger all during the days, but that's not really a surprise is it! Although went into town on Friday - the first of my Fridays off :-D Managed a bit of wandering around, didn't really achieve much actual shopping though. Hmm...

Saturday night met Dan, who unbelievably, I haven't seen in almost a year now! So was good to catch up! Night was for Andy's 21st, so although I left reasonably early (need to save money you know!) I'm hoping i helped contribute to him getting completely battered ;-) Oh yeah mustn't forget, Jude was there with Dan too - she'd never forgive me if she didn't get a mention... :-) So, yeah, good to see everyone and hopefully have to come up to Birmingham and visit in the new year Dan!

Sunday night me, Claire and Mike went to a Just The Tonic comedy night at The Approach, which was cool. I'm glad I checked their website again, because last I knew they'd stopped running the night because they had nowhere to do it since Cabaret closed! They had three comedians on and I have to say the headliner (Matt something or other, need to find out his surname) was absolutely class. Really really funny.

So I reckon they'll be a few more trips there from now on - apparently it runs on the first Sunday of every month, if anyone else fancies joining us! £7.50 entrance fee so not to bad really, unless you're a student (or still have a card...) and it's even cheaper (bastards!)

Labels: Gigs, Nights out / Nights in

Well that's it, the gig marathon is over! Three in two weeks and they were all very very good! Infact, every one I went to was better than the last!

Before I start going on about how amazing The Killers were last night, i'll just apologise and say i'm not trying to rub it in Mike...but, they were sooooo good :-P


I didn't think anything would top that Muse gig last week, but this certainly did. I suppose it helps that I know the Killers songs best of anyone i've seen and they work so well live. When they played Mr Brightside I thought the balcony was going to be brought down by the amount of people jumping!

They did pretty much all the best ones off both albums - although saying that they're all as good as each other on Hot Fuss, so missing any songs from that was a shame, but they couldn't do everything!

I completely forgot they hadn't done All These Things That I've Done, until they went off for the (first) time and the entire crowd started chanting "I've got soul, but i'm not a soldier" :-)

Came back, did a couple of others and that, then went off and came back for a second encore and ended it with the Exitlude off Sam's Town

Anyway, could go on about it all day, but lets just say it was good! Photo's on gallery...

No more gigs now for a while unfortunately, although possibly going to see Faithless at the arena in march if we can get tickets!

So for now, back to the boredom :( Guess I'd better stop spending all my money on seeing bands and start some Christmas shopping now.... 4 Weeks to go!

Labels: Gigs, Nights out / Nights in

All I will say is The Killers will need to be pretty impressive to beat that! Muse put on a well good show, really really cool. I actually forgot how many good songs they have had as well! They are known for being good live and I'd definitely agree and recommend other people seeing them!

I wasn't a fan of the support act, but i wasn't going to see them, so not really bothered. They were some band called the Noisettes, very very heavy with a female vocalist (who was slightly mental!), but apart from maybe a couple of songs they all sounded the same to me, with her screaming into the microphone.





I actually have some pictures from this one, courtesy of Jim who was there as well and he was standing with his camera - a lot closer than we were. See them on gallery! And hopefully you're seeing the video above (Looks like it only works in Internet Explorer i'm afraid...), that came out amazingly well, the sound is even quite good!

Labels: Gigs, Music, Nights out / Nights in

Last night was The Feeling at Rock City, was going to just post after I'd finished this "gig marathon" over the next two weeks, but what the hell, i'll post after each one!

I'm off work today anyway, no particular reason but just trying to use up holiday and since i'm doing two gigs in two nights thought I might as well to recover.

Anyway, The Feeling. Was a really really good gig, infact they were even better than I expected - and I was expecting it to be good, ask anyone how many times i've listened to the album ;-)
They did all the album stuff (well most of it) and a song off the new album as well, which sounded good. Also did a cover of Video Killed The Radio Star, which was quite cool!

Ended on Love It When You Call, my favourite song off the album, so it was all good :)

Oh yeah, the support band were good too! Called Captain, I'd actually heard of them :-O I think they've been on Jo Whiley's show on Radio 1 and I definitely knew a couple of their singles.

Me and Surovy last night, tonight it's me, Claire and Mike seeing Muse... report tomorrow no doubt!



(P.S - No photo's again, I did attempt to use my phone camera, but it wouldn't even take one as it reckons it has no memory left - god knows what its actually being used up on! Not that it would have been more than a bright blur if I had got one... I'll take my proper camera to the Killers, not much point at Muse we'll be too far away!)

Labels: Gigs, Music, Nights out / Nights in

Ok, for yet another year I have absolutley no idea what i'm doing for new year! My parents are off to New York on the 27th December for like a week... not fair! Jealous, but we'll be off there next year anyway... definitely.... ok, hopefully!

But that still leaves the problem of new year. As usual it will probably be a let down! For like the last three years I think, we've just played poker and thats about it, usually lacking in numbers too! Shocking really. But it's just thinking of something to do! I'd love to go back to Scotland because it's always good up there, or even abroad possibly, but as usual we've left it to late really for any of that. It's just stupidly expensive to try and arrange anything like that now.

So, it's looking like it could well end up being a party here or something with probably four or five of us at the most at this rate :(

Pleeeease let me know if anyone has any suggestions for things to do - or offers/invites! :-)

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Haven't posted for a while so thought i'd write a quick one... well it'll probably turn into quite a long one actually!

Had quite a busy weekend this weekend for a change! Friday night was some drinks in Fat Cat's - which played some really good music btw, i'd like to know who the DJ was... And of course after that ended up at good old Loveshack :) Didn't drink too much though, I think I made up for that last week when I somehow managed to get through half a bottle of Southern Comfort last sat night! That was while playing drunken Jenga and Cheat, random I know, but fun!

And to make the night even more surreal, me and Claire ended up listening to Phil Collins Greatest Hits at four in the morning and deciding we actually quite liked it lol. The scary thing is, I think we've started some sort of bizarre tradition... guess what got put on when we got back from Loveshack this Friday! No comment about me actually having the CD in the first place.... There's some classics on there you know!!!

No Phil Collins on saturday night, but we did play more Jenga! Wasn't quite as tense this time though... probably because we hadn't drunk obscene amounts of alcohol... Good job really, because I was also setting off "fireworks" on saturday night. I say "fireworks" in quotes because it would probably have been more exciting to light a box of matches, it's just not the same after last year's party at my parents, they were proper fireworks! And we may just be having more of those bonfire parties in Southwell if my parents get the land they want, but that's a story for another post I think!

I did attempt to light several of the fireworks at once to try and make it the least bit interesting, but ended up attempting to use a candle to do it because the taper wouldn't light them quickly enough and pouring candle wax all over my hand! Ouch. It's all good fun though! lol. I still can't believe they trusted me with explosives in the first place... granted they could barely be classified as explosives, but still! :)

Anyway, Sunday wasn't quite as interesting, but did go out for a nice meal for my dad's birthday in Newark. Drove Jamie and Sarah back up to Sheffield in the evening too, got a good view of all the fireworks going off in Sheffield from the M1!

That little trip, plus everything else totted up to over 150 miles driving this weekend too, mental! Didn't even seem that much, but it certainly adds up!

Right, ok, that wasn't a short post was it. Like I said. Could do with some pictures to break it up, sadly didn't get any again though, really need to take more! Must remember!

Um... what else... christmas soon!

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

It's currently early Sunday afternoon, but it feels more like about 11 o'clock sunday night! Had an all night poker session at Neil's last night and we ended up playing from about 8:30 in the evening until about 5:30am again! Still talked about the same old rubbish and made the same old jokes... Neil, Gaz... ;-) Nothing changes!

Although at least this time we didn't have to go into uni for lectures the next day! Hmm.. actually, i'd put up with that if it meant being back at uni to be honest!

Wasn't quite getting light this time, but the birds were definitely singing when we went to bed... The reason i'm absolutley knackered now though, is because we got up about nineish because Neil was off to play football this morning - yep, rather him than me!

We played two full games right through to winner takes all, didn't win either this time sadly (bad luck of course!), but only spent a tenner for nine hours of entertainment so can't complain really!

I'm not too bothered about being knackered now though, because i'm off mon, tues and weds this week :-D And we're off to Alton Towers on wednesday - about time! Almost didn't make it this year! No doubt more to follow after wednesday...

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Couldn't resist, i've bought another electronic gadget to add to the collection!

Been wanting a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) for ages, because when there is anything on TV (very rarely I know!) it always seems to all be on at the same time! Problem is every one I found seemed to either have absolutley rubbish reviews or not do what I wanted. Finally found this one by Humax though, partly from recommendation and partly because of its price and reviews!

Still quite expensive but it's going to be completely worth it, it's so useful - ok ok, very cool too :) to be able to pause live TV! It's got 160 gig hard drive too, so i think i'll be recording every single Top Gear for one... Which apparently has started filming again by the way! - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5409608.stm :-D

Can transfer stuff to the PC as well, so i'll be able to keep stuff if the hard drive (ever) gets full! Because it has two tuners you can do all the stuff like picture-in-picture etc too. Still got a bit more playing to do with it yet.

I really have too many electronic "toys" :-)

What else have I been up to... not much really! Off to Sheffield/Chesterfield next week for what will probably turn out to be another epic poker night with Gaz and Neil, if the final year at uni was anything to go by!

Went to Media last night, which has just re-opened and is now owned by Gatecrasher :-D Although last night wasn't quite Crasher... more the usual kind of student cheese night, but it's all good, just not Love Shack though, nothing ever can be! And for some reason it was dead! I think they really need to promote it more... most people probably think it's still closed... Crasher's on in a few weeks... must go, must go, must go...

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Things i've bought

Well, since a certain person didn't turn up this weekend... not mentioning any names, I wasn't expecting it to be very exciting, but it wasn't too bad actually!

Had a good night at Loveshack on fri - it's starting to get like the days before uni at the moment, the amount we're going there again! It's all good though, you know it's always going to be class. Went in Saltwater too, a really really nice bar in the Cornerhouse that I can't believe we hadn't been in before! Got a cool roof terrace with its own bar and everything, getting a bit chilly for it though, shame we didn't go in in the summer!

Mike went to Manchester yesterday and I randomly went for a game of pitch & putt in Derby with Jim! lol. Never done it before, the nearest i've got is crazy golf... oh and a go on the driving range at Center Parcs (which didn't go well)... it was fun, but i've decided golf definitely isn't my game!

Today, been pretty bored, but not too bothered, I can live with one day! Did play badminton with Surovy at least so that was good.

I only seem to be posting at weekends at the moment! Probably because my weeks are that repetitive and boring there's nothing even worth putting on here about! I'll try and post more often, but it probably won't happen...

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Sport

No, not sherwood forest this time... although close... we headed back that way to Thoresby Park, where they had a giant maze made from maize!

Right, before I go any further, I will say, i'm not even going to start with the cheesy puns, because I think Mike's managed to use every one possible anyway... ;-)

(See I even managed not to say corny... )

There's meant to be loads of these maze's all round the country ( infact, the world apparently!), so we reckon we should challenge ourselves to visit every one! That's some challenge, since they spread as far as South Africa, America, you name it....!!!


Was very random, but a good day again! Even better than sherwood forest possibly! lol. Surovy had to get her 'souvenier' of course... Well, part of the maze itself really... As modelled by her and Claire above! Apologies for the shocking quality picture again, this time it was my rubbish phone camera to blame...

Mike managed to hobble around the maze, which is quite impressive really, since we spent over an hour and a half in there... we weren't lost, just wanted to see it all, honest!

Infact, I just realised I hadn't posted about Mike's knee again yet, so i'll explain the reason he was hobbling! Yep, you guessed it... badminton ended in tears (well nearly) again last weekend. Same thing again with his knee. Not good. Besides it being extremely painful at the time, no doubt, more than anything because now he's even more bored all the time and thus so am I! lol

We're just not meant to play badminton! And I'm getting a reputation for injuring people now... Stu did something to his elbow as well when I was playing him next...

It's just a coincidence!!!! :-|

Anyway, so, hopefully they'll be a part three to this post as well, because we still need to fit in a trip to the seaside before the end of the summer! Didn't think that was the best idea on a bank holiday monday that was all...

Oh yeah, had an awesome night at Loveshack on fri too. We actually went to some different bars too! Shock, horror! Place called the The Fat Cat which is really nice and the new Revolution in the Corner House. Mike couldn't come out though which was annoying because he might have had trouble in Loveshack on his knee... no comments please about me not being able to stand up even with both legs in tact...

Labels: Days out, Nights out / Nights in, Sport

Ended up having a great night on friday at Loveshack, not sure if it was the amount of alcohol we had consumed but it certainly seemed good :) Sadly it's not Loveshack as we knew it, not so many of those 80's cheese classics, but i'm sure we can live with it!

Was a good weekend all round actually, played some pool on saturday night - after we'd eventually recovered from the hangovers... well, I lost some pool anyway :- But I came back on Sunday and kicked Alex's ass at badminton to make up for it!

Sadly, sunday night I felt a bit crap, something I ate maybe, although not sure what! Couldn't sleep all night so ended up calling in sick the next day :( Better now though!

So that very expensive week ended with a very expensive weekend too! I blame Alex for making me drink so much... ;-)

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Sport

Just got back from Lancaster this afternoon. Had a good weekend up there, most of the time spent drinking! We started drinking in a beer garden yesterday morning about half 11, before the football and ended up out all day - with a short gap in the middle.

Got a bit burnt as it was stupidly hot in the beer garden and we sat there about 3 hours! Haven't had an all-dayer like that in a long while, suprisingly though I am reasonably un-hungover today although I did drink a lot of water last night. Mostly because at about half 12 one of us had to go home cos he was so drunk ;) So thought i'd better sober up a bit. Glad I did!

Bit of a mad week, so I think it's an early night tonight before work tomorrow!

Labels: Days out, Nights out / Nights in

Just thought I'd post something since I haven't for a while. Mainly because nothing's happened!

Certainly nothing worth writing about anyway. Went to Beeston last friday night, to Republic, and again there was a live act there (think it might be every friday), and again they were actually good. So turned out to be an ok night again!

Bank holiday next weekend :-D Sadly, it'll probably just mean being bored for longer :-|
I hate being bored constantly, why am I always bored!?

Anyway, at least there's some vaguely exciting things coming up to relieve the boredom! Got another one of the grad programme courses at work, which on it's own isn't particularly exciting (especially as it's about finance and commercial *yawn*), but it's in Poole in Dorset and the hotel we've booked is right on the beach apparently. So here's hoping for some decent weather! I can definitely put up with a boring two day course, for a few nights down there and beer on the beach etc. :)

After that it's a weekend up at Claire's in Lancaster for her birthday, which should be cool. Then the next weekend it's my birthday!

Oh yeah, so if you happen to be reading this - and you know me of course ;)
I'm planning on going out in Nottingham on Friday 16th June, not sure where yet, but we can decide that later. Wanted to do something a bit different, other than the usual go out and let everyone see how wasted they can get me :-| But I have a feeling this year won't be any different - James, you're birthday wasn't my fault!!!

Of course if anyone has any better ideas for things to do other than getting drunk, please let me know!

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Work

Just got back from Center Parcs this afternoon.

Had a well good week, obviously seemed to go very quick, but we certainly managed to pack a lot into the time! I think we pretty much did every activity there, apart from a couple of the very expensive ones - it cost enough as it was :-|

We did.......

• Pool
• Snooker
• Table Tennis
• Badminton
• Tennis
• Swimming
• Field Archery
• Ten Pin Bowling
• Golf Driving Range
• Laser Clay Pigeon Shooting
• and Quad Biking :)

Unsuprisingly, the Quad Biking was very very good!



Never done it before and now I would love to do it again. We got like two 20 minute trek's through woodland and serious off-road stuff. It was even better than the off-road thing I did last year in a Land Rover Defender.

Laser Clay Pigeon shooting was really good too. Done the real thing before, but this was better if anything because they could do varied games etc. The gun was exactly the same feel, weight and everything, just you could have a scoreboard and everyone could aim for the same clay!

Pretty knackered now, unsuprisingly, although we didn't do as much "physical" sport as I expected, only played badminton once! - Alex didn't want to play again because he knew i'd finish what I started and beat him ;-)

Wasn't helped at the beginning of the week by the fact neither of us got any sleep the night before we went, for me mainly due to the fact I was sleeping on his floor sober (which has never happened before suprisingly....) So the first day seemed very long! All good in the end though.

Right, better go now, people arriving from Sheffield, big night out in Notts tonight :-D


I really will be sleeping the rest of the weekend.....!!!

Labels: Holidays, Nights out / Nights in, Sport

Saturday night was well good, better than I expected actually, the union was a lot better with three proper rooms and there was just about the right amount of people there.

I took my camera out (yes, I actually remembered it!) and ended up, with Mike's help, taking about 100 photos! It was mental we were just taking them constantly and as always, alex provided the comedy value to make it all worth it ;-)

Obviously most of the photo's were crap, but i've ended up uploading nearly 80 still! Have a look at gallery.




As you can see Alex and James were pretty wasted, as they should be... Although i'm not quite sure how James was even standing by the end of the night...

Mike bought him a very very dirty drink... Consisting of... wait for it...

• 2 shots of vodka
• 1 shot of gin
• 1 shot of malibu
• 1 shot of bacardi
• 1 shot of southern comfort
• 1 shot of archers
• coke

I don't know how he's alive either. The odd (and quite scary) thing is, the drink actually tasted quite nice :-S

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

So much for letting go of the student life, we're off out in Sheffield this weekend again for Alex's and James' birthdays.... at the union :)

James still working there has it's advantages!

Should be a good night hopefully, if we can all not argue over which room we spend our time in... i.e. the usual indie vs. dance vs. cheese arguements. Ahh it'll be just like old times!

Bowling tonight in Nottingham, hope I bowl better than last time, was really shocking then, didn't even get above 100!

So good weekend planned hopefully. Although the thing I'm really looking forward to is moving... Three weeks tomorrow, come on!

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, University

In comparison to most of my weekends, just had a very hectic weekend! But good hectic :)

Mike came down fri to start looking for somewhere to live in nottingham, although we both thought it was just an excuse for a pissup (or two). It turned out we actually did both lol

Found a very nice apartment in Chilwell, not massive, but big enough and brand new. The apartment block that it's in has several available for rent to, so we can pick and choose a bit if we decide to go for it, which is nice.

Can't wait to move, be so cool living somewhere like that and it'll be a laugh living with a mate again, like being back at uni.... almost :-|

Apart from that, of course, we got pissed. Ended up at Love Shack on friday night and it was a well good night! Exactly how it used to be, every song a classic and it wasn't too rammed etc. We were to knackered to go out properly again last night, so went bowling with some others (let's not comment on my pathetic scores...) then just had a few games of pool at rileys - Again, almost felt like being back at uni for a moment. Must let go, must let go, must let go....!

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Sport

Well, that's it, another christmas over. Would have posted earlier but firstly i've not had much chance to get online and secondly i've not done much to write about anyway!

Had a pretty good couple of days, the usual really, got a couple of bits I wanted for christmas but the big one is the money so I can get an Xbox 360... Me and ten million others. I may have a very long wait and by that point will have probably changed my mind and bought something else.

Tom, the lucky bastard, only managed to get one from PC World on boxing day! God knows how he managed that.

Just got back to my house this morning, I was starting to get very bored at home in the middle of nowhere! And I'm looking forward to new year, not doing anything exciting but Mike, Alex and Stu are coming round for a 'few' games of poker and a 'few' beers ;-)

Infact, Mike's coming down this afternoon so we can go out and get pissed tonight as well.... why not, it's christmas!

Labels: Christmas / New Year, Nights out / Nights in

They were absolutely class. Really really good, put on as good show, if not better than I was expecting too.

Tried to get a couple of photo's but there wasn't a chance of them coming out, too far away :(
Here's one anyway...



Took a video on my camera too which shows off the atmosphere quite well. I've stuck them all on gallery.

On the negative side, it took me over four hours to get home this afternoon, for some reason the M1 was closed between junction 16-18 and so I had to go all round the houses to get home and it took forever! There's a work christmas pub crawl tonight, didn't plan on going anyway, but i'm definitely not now, i'm knackered!

Labels: Gigs, Music, Nights out / Nights in

As you can tell from the time I'm posting this, i'm off work today :-D (Well, I might been home by now.... but anyway). Had the Christmas do last night with the other people off my project, so I thought I'd make the most of all this holiday I haven't used and take off today.

Was a pretty good night, we booked out a bar and even had a nice tab supplied by our manager. There was a buffet (of sorts), but that wasn't worth the £8 a head we paid for it! (well, the company paid for it).

Was nice to get to know a few more of the people I work with socially, but was a pretty average night all in all, the 'club' upstairs was shocking!

Christmas shopping tomorrow! :-|

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Work

Last night was well good, had a huge bonfire party at my parents with about 40 people and lots of fireworks :)

... Oh yeah and a huge bonfire!


Sadly, I haven't got any photo's from during the night because I forgot to take my digital camera (doh!) and only had my phone. I should have a few coming though, so I shall try and put them up on Gallery.

Anyway, yeah, the night was class in the end, I say in the end because it was looking like it could all go wrong for a while. What with the constant threat of it absolutley chucking it down, not being able to light the bbq to feed 40 people because of the wind and oh yeah, a table full of alcohol collapsing!

But it got better and the fire and fireworks were really cool, Jamie and my dad set them off and did a good job keeping them going (apart from a small issue with running out of matches...). They must have gone on for more than half an hour, pretty much constant and all really good fireworks. Not really bad at all for £200.

Mike came down and got dragged into helping me bbq :) Which mainly consisted of us choking on smoke in the workshop - photo's should follow when I get them.

Another cool thing was I got to see some family I'd not seen in about 10 years! Particularly my second cousin, Noel, who was 5 when I last saw him!

Even managed to get a few games of poker in at the end of the night, so all in all one of the best weekends i've had in a long while! (particularly since I won the poker, sorry Mike ;-))

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Let's hope I get a score like last time! :-D

Off to Bracknell tomorrow afternoon with a couple of the other grads from work. Another orientation, this time just for graduates.

Staying down there wednesday night and its on thursday all day (would have been a very early start to drive down thursday morning!)

Was hoping to get a few beers in tomorrow night, might as well, I mean, it'd be rude not to :)
Only problem is, the place we're staying in is just like a travel lodge at a motorway services, so there's no pubs around!!! :-(

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Work

Went to a cool bar in Beeston last night - something which I never expected to find there!

Got recommended by a friend, and glad he did now! Quite expensive but it was worth every penny. Really nice atmosphere, very very good cocktails, friendly bar staff and last night they had two girls singing and playing acoustic guitar who were really good. Infact their voices were that good that they did better covers of some of the songs than the originals I think!

I'll definitely be going there again.

Oh yeah, the bar's called Republic - just in-case anyone's in Beeston... ;-)

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Good weekend in Manchester, but now I just need sleep!

Went out on the Friday night and eventually found the club we intended to go to, which turned out to be a good cheese night. Found some nice bars as well, which were stupidly cheap for added benefit! :)

My sat nav didn't fail me through the middle of manchester, although had I known how stupidly expensive the car parks are there I would have parked in the outskirts somewhere, but oh well.

Currently having a play with Skype, see what all the hype's about - Skype/hype, it rhymes see, get it?

:-|

Ok, maybe i'm a little bit bored again. Sleep.

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Good night last night, ended up being ten of us there, although our manager who planned the night out the first place didn't turn up... We thought he might have got lost (he's german and only just moved here) But turns out he got a puncture cycling into town! lol Maybe next time..

Had a good laugh and the night was topped off by me getting the highest score out of everyone at bowling! 141!

Think that's a personal best! :-D

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Work

Off out with my team from work tonight. Only taken us three goes to actually get something sorted!
Tried just going out for a drink a couple of times and it never happened, so we went for booking a bowling alley and it looks like most people are going to turn up, I think!

Haven't been bowling for ages though, so i'll probably be absolutley crap :-| Oh well, should be a laugh and I'm sure at least some of us will end up getting drunk.....


...me included of course :)

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Work

Why do Plusnet have to take so long to activate adsl!!!! Not that i'm complaining, they're pretty good really, just annoying having to wait two weeks!

Hmmm... what have I been up to since last post? Quite a lot actually! Moved house obviously, my stuff actually all fitted in ok, to my amazement. It's sooo good living away from home again.

Went to Crasher of course which was class (as expected), although didn't quite make it through til 6. Could barely stand up by about half 4! But I had been out the friday night in Nottingham that weekend as well!

Went up to Sheff this weekend and went out with Alex and Mike, had a good night, although it seemed to be about three hours later than it actually was all night (probably due to the fact we started drinking at 4....)

Apart from getting pissed, not much else, so the usual then...! :)

Oh actually, I lie, I have done something slightly more healthy - slightly more expensive as well though...
Joined a gym/health club place which is pretty cool. Has a nice swimming pool as well as a huge gym and loads of other stuff. £49 a month though.... hopefully that'll make me actually go to the gym and not just lounge around in the pool and jacuzzi etc :)

I'm also currently addicted to watching 24. Someone at work lent me the first series and i've been watching it pretty much constantly when i've had time. It's well good! Wish I watched it before now.

Labels: Nights out / Nights in, Sport

Ooh yes, just booked tickets for Crasher Classics at Gatecrasher1 in Sheffield - Going with Jamie, bank holiday Sunday 28th...



That's going to be one hell of a night, after not going out properly clubbing for this long (feels like about a year, nevermind a couple of months!), i'm going to be going all out, sod going home at half 12 like I normally have to, this will be a full on all-nighter, 9 til 6... And with the perfect music to go with it! Last time I went to a decent night was Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems at Gatecrasher1 last year with James, I could have lived there with that music, absolutley amazing... and this stands to be better still...

....Looking at the DJ Line up....!

John OO Fleming
Matt Hardwick
Lange
Solar Stone
Riley & Durrant
Stevie G

Why can't it be sooner!!!

I've just realised, this is probably going to be only the second proper club night i've ever been on! First one was Godskitchen with Danny where I saw Armin van Buuren, and that was about 3 years ago! Shocking. The sad thing is, this may well be my last too, hopefully not though!

Right, anyway, i'll stop going on now - i'm not excited, honest!

Must remember to book the Monday off work.... :-|

Labels: Music, Nights out / Nights in

Had a great BBQ on Saturday, after we eventually got one to light.... was actually not raining for a change too! So we lounged around a bit drinking beer in the sun and throwing stones in a hole (!?)

Was fun honestly!

But the drinking went on.... and on.... and on.... you get the picture :-)
Stopped played poker at about five, after Gaz had about cleared up. Went to bed finally, 1 bottle of vodka and nearly 2 crates of beer later! (Oh yeah, a pint at the pub too...)

Mike and Gaz had some very odd problem sleeping in one of the rooms here, still not quite sure what happened, so they ended up sleeping in Gaz's car! - Although Alex was happy cos he got the bed after that!

All this equated to one hell of a hangover on sunday, one of the worst I can remember. Finally started to die down about 3 o'clock when me and Alex went for a wander round Southwell. Was all worth it though (I think!?)

No pictures sadly, forgot to get my camera out. Need to take some again, bit to much text in this blog at the moment!

But like I said at the beginning, was a good day, but now it's back to the boredom :-(

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Well, I take back what I said yesterday, this was one of the worst films i've seen this year! I really did expect it to be a good film, particularly with Spielberg directing etc.

But it was shocking! I can't really remember the original film so I've got nothing to compare it against, but me and Stu both said the same, it had absolutely no story! I've never seen a film with such a lack of depth or detail. Nothing was explained, e.g. what the red weeds were - They just appeared and nothing was said either way about them. I won't say much more incase anyone's not seen (although i'd say don't bother!) Everything in the film was just left hanging or ended all of a sudden like it had been cut short. They didn't even bloody explain how the son miraculously survived! It was only just over an hour and a half long and it seemed to us like half the film was missing. If that was quite stictly based on the book, as I thought I heard it was, then i've lost all respect for H G Wells!

I'm just annoyed. I wanted that to be a class film and I wish I hadn't wasted 4 quid on it now.

Labels: Films, Nights out / Nights in, Random rants

Had a BBQ and Poker night at Neil's last night. As usual we ate stupid amounts of food and drank rather a lot of beer... well, some of us - Neil and two of his mates were trying to drink every bottle in the liquor cabinet I think, all mixed together :-S They weren't too well afterwards!

I was still recovering from saturday I think so didn't quite go that far. Stangely though, Neil who could barely see by the end of the night, never mind play poker, managed to clear up! I lost a tenner over the whole night and didn't win one hand!!! Shocking.

Gaz is talking about a night out on saturday, well a few drinks at our current favourite pub The Devonshire Cat, although I certainly don't want to be drinking this stuff that I drank there on saturday again! That really will be the last night, the final night of student freedom before I start work on the monday :(

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Been a few days since my last post again, but that's probably because i've been away from my pc for that long!

What with being back in Notts again helping my parents and my birthday, not had much time.

My birthday - Yeah, I got very very drunk :-| I'm not quite sure how I survived the night by the amount I drank and I have strange loss of memory when I got home, where multiple people keep telling me I drank Ouzo! And for me to even smell ouzo, nevermind drink it, I must have been out of it! As soon as I get hold of the photo's from Tom I will put them up on gallery.

For now, here's (nearly) everyone who was out at Walkabout... including James with some persuasion from Jamie!


Apart from my that, i'm still looking for a job of course, nothing much come back yet though :( My computer has something very very wrong with it and so it may be out of action for a few days... Bloody machine - Note. Never Buy From Evesham Again!

Moving out of my place in sheffield next sunday :( Back to the boredom again. I swear if I don't find a job within a few weeks I'm going to go insane living at home again! Especially out of the middle of no-where where my parents live now. I am seriously relying on my car, probably a bad thing judging by the various weird noises it's continuing to make...

Labels: Nights out / Nights in