Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
June 9th, 2005
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it’s been a while, but it’s built up the expectation, right? Hmm, okay so maybe not. Since the last time I wrote, i’ve been doing all kinds of stuff (for want of a better word). So here’s the rundown of two and a half weeks in the life of me…
My last post was some random crap about an ice bar in london, so lets ignor that one and go back to the one before. 1 week before Lee and Lindsay’s wedding, and I was raving on about how old I felt. So the couples happy day came, Lee fluffed his lines, and Lloydy got VERY drunk. All in all a good day was had by all. The best bit being the hour rant that someone had in the loo, i’ll post the video soon if he (or she, don’t want to incriminate anyone…. although that would’ve meant I was filming in the girls bogs), will let me.
Generally work… Actually, I’m not even going to bother with that one.
The bank hoilday called for some biking in the Wyre Valley with the lads. What can I say, as usual a top day out, and got me some more footage for the “rant cam”.
I (and several others from church) took a visit to a mosque in Pleck for one of their open days. It’s a really good idea, they open up the whole thing, show you round, feed you (yes, a BIG factor in deciding to go) and give you this talk on Islam. I’m impressed with anything that helps build bridges between communities, so a big thanks to those guys for making us feel so welcome.
Another biking session brought me this very nice wound and a couple of bruised ribs (hence the “ouch”).
Which I guess brings me up to this week, that has so far conceited of work, a joint cell with the guys from Eurostreams (an absolutely awesome night), the tuesday night pub quiz, and a bit of a bulti (init mate) with Steve, Paul, Ben and the rest of the guys from WCC.
All that, plus the usual pub nights, cinema, the quiz and the odd jamming session here and there have made for a pretty sweet, 2 (or so) weeks. Interesting, eh? No… I didn’t think so.
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May 25th, 2005
Rob’s just had his first year anniversary. A year?! Where did that go? And then, last weekend, his sister got married (which was awesome, really nice church and a huge reception at an old country estate). Next weekend it’s Lee’s turn, and I’ve already got invitations to two more this summer.
When did I get old enough for my friends to start getting married and having kids? Not only that but getting proper grown-up jobs, houses, 2 cars, mortgages, life-insurance and other things that my parents have but I’m obviously too young to deal with. But i’m not anymore…
So this got me thinking, when (if ever) do you start thinking of yourself as an adult? I mean you hear those “older” folks (of which I guess I’m no one) talking about how they’ve felt 16 all their lives, but I’ve never really thought that would happen to me. I always thought this was something people said, but you’d feel older, you’d know you were a growed-up. But apparently not. Oh well, here’s to many more years (at least) of thinking and feeling like a 16 year old. Anyone get served in the offie?
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May 10th, 2005
Finally Lloydy has posted the photos of Lee’s Stag night shnangans. It all stared off fairly tame, a few drinks in Bridgenorth (with the notable absence of the stag) then back to Walsall to get Lee.
A ‘few’ drinks in the Wharf led to a few more in Yates’s, and then home. However, on the way home passing McDonalds we stopped so that I could take a leak, or so it would seem. We took this opportunity to strip Lee, cover him in silly string and baby-oil and hand-cuff him to a lamp-post. We then drove away to the other car park, turned the lights off and left him for a while. We were gunna go back for him, honest guv.
By the time we did go back for him he’d gone. Escaped. Vamoosed. And then we had the biggest storm that i’ve seen for years. So after spending an hour or so looking for him Lloydy called the police and asked “if they had picked up any naked white men on the run in Bescot?” They said not, but they’d send a car out to help us look. They weren’t happy.
After hour went by, still no Lee. Kris and Fordy were soaked, and we figured it was time to go tell Lee’s future misses that we’d lost him. As it turned out Lee was already home, he’d got a taxi with the £10 that he’d kept in his sock for just such an emergency (?!). What amazed me most was the distance he’d run, naked, through the streets of Walsall to get to the taxi rank. He said a woman stopped and asked him if he was okay, but he just said he was on his stag-do and she seemed fine with that.
So not you’re run off the mill night in Walsall (although the police operator seemed to think there were other naked men running around out there somewhere), but a night I’m sure Lee will never forget. One to tell the kids eh?
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April 19th, 2005
It’s been a while since my last post so I better make this a good-un (well, relatively speaking). It being the season of University mates birthday’s (including mine - which is today by the way, just in case you wanted to send me that spare Ferrari you don’t use any more), I headed up to Huddersfield.
The night started out in traditional style with pizza-pie and vodka then continued the trend with a trip to Session, Vox, Sharkeys and then I’m sure there was more, but I know we did end up in the new noodle bar, which was nice, despite me voting for lazeez again. It was awesome to see the lads again, and kinda made me pine for the good old days of finishing work at 4.30 in the afternoon and getting home at 3 in the morning having stopped off for a ‘quick pint’ in Vox. But I guess you get older and move on… back to Brownhills…. damn The rest of the weekend consisted of sitting around at Riks watching movies and eating yet more junk foot. What could be better?
Oh, and in case you were wondering, the Time Fade Titles are installed but not working like I intended them to. Must change it so that the old posts fade quicker.
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April 1st, 2005
WOW! I actually won something! The rdc* theme won the ‘Pixel Perfect’ award in Alex King’s Word Press theme’s competition. Yes, check me out. In fact, even better still checkout the competition blog. Congratulations to all the other winners, everyone did a stunning job.
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March 31st, 2005
There’s nothing quite like waking up at 4.30am on a very cold night, desperate for the loo, and then realising you’re in a tent on top of a foggy hill in the middle of Derbyshire. It’d actually been a really nice sunny good Friday, perfect for mountain biking. So we set off: Four blokes, one van and Jayne - Gripped, sorted, we were ready to off-road.
The riding was good, nothing too challenging, just easy riding to ease us back in after the long winter. So as we left for the pub about 5.30pm the sun was shining and all was right with the world. The meal was awesome, and spirits were high, so we decided that camping would actually be a really good idea. I knew of a camp-site, nothing special, but this was camping right? We’d got tents and sleeping bags, what more did we need?
We set off, Jayne leading the way, the last of the warm spring sun disappearing behind the rolling hills. About half way to the site, a few spots of gentle rain began to appear on the windscreen. We wiped them away. The roads became windier (is that a word) the closer we got, the rain was now slightly more than a a gentle smattering, and we were starting to think this was a bad idea. We finally arrived at eric byne camp-site it was dark, pi**ing down, and bloody cold.
After trudging up and down the hill several times, even the trip to the pub didn’t cheer us up much. All I can say is thank the Lord for Little Chef!
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March 21st, 2005
Gigs, gigs, gigs! Well, two actually. Saturday me and Paul played a birthday party in Tamworth, and Sunday I did a couple of numbers at the Acoustic night at the Quality Hotel in Walsall. The best thing about playing places like that is you get to see some bloody good bands. I was blown away on Saturday with the quality of all the bands and performers, everyone was just fantasic. And of course Sunday night was the usual collection of brilliant performers.
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March 3rd, 2005
Apparently it’s that time of year again. There is a big Word Press theme competition over at Alex King dot org, and looks like they’re building quite a tasty collection of prizes, now if only they would add an iPod to the pool…
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January 1st, 2005
Here’s a little treat for ya’ll (or possibly punishment) - That’s right, it’s me n Jonny boy out drinking new years eve. Expect the other (slightly less grainy) photos soon - as soon as I’ve had them developed and fixed the photos script.
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December 25th, 2004
Would you adam and eve it? Christmas day and it’s only flippin snowing! It’s absolutly hammering it down now, but too dark to get a photo with my crappy phone, so you’ll just have to marvel at these two I took earlier! Merry Christmas Everybody!
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