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With torrential rain pouring down outside, a sensible plan for yesterday might have been to, oh I don't know, stay inside in the nice warm house? Maybe sit in a pub in front of a nice roaring fire all afternoon? Ohhh No. No. I went climbing trees, flying down zip slides and making my way across rickety rope bridges admist driving rain ( Read more... )

Today's videotastic update is brought to you by the letters V, O, D, K and A, and heavily features Kevin, who in 1996 set a human tolerance record for alcohol consumption - a record that was only equalled on New Years Eve 1999 when following several years of training myself towards a steady descent into alcoholism, I spectacularly self-destructed ( Read more... )

If I had known the tickets were going to be £26 then I wouldn't have let my overdrawn-self be talked into rushing down to Southampton on a storm-ridden Wednesday evening after work in order to watch Reading attempt to play football. Unfortunately I did not know this little fact until after the tickets were purchased, and so last night myself, icemachine, ( Read more... )

Had an unusually action-packed weekend; on Saturday we went over to Windsor to celebrate Kevin's 31st Birthday with the traditional chinese grub-fest at Yang Tze, (a few phonecam pics from the night are under the cut,) and on Sunday Wifey, Ritu, Kevin and I had a horrifyingly early start to the day as we headed up to Heathrow airport for icemachine's ( Read more... )

Had a surprise visit this weekend as icemachine flew into town for, ooh about 24 hours, and fortunately we were able to meet up with him for a quick bite to eat at a local public house :


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I'm almost certain I saw icemachine driving a Reading & Wokingham Coaches Coach this morning whilst I was shivering at the bus-stop. Can't believe he didn't stop to give me a lift. Git.

Met up with icemachine - on his latest transatlantic jaunt - and some other amigos at La Tasca in Ealing last night.

Witty and entertaining company as always, although unfortunately I was not quite so enamoured with the food which, for £23 a head, was fairly average. Plus we were duped into paying £44.75 for paella - and while admittedly it was possibly ( Read more... )

Good weekend - finally finished painting the downstairs internal doors which now look *fab*; spent much of the weekend at the hospital but the good (and somewhat surprising) news is that Dad is being released today (Hmm. Makes him sound like a convict - OK, discharged today. Yes. Better); and yesterday caught up with icemachine, yffy, rubberglover et al at erictheoffred's BBQ. Photos ( Read more... )

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