The Summer is Back!

YAY! After weeks of almost constant rain the sun finally came out yesterday and it is still here today which has made me super-happy! After work today Mike came up to mine and we went to Dawlish Warren for an evening. It was really busy when we got there but we walked along through the dunes to the bottom end of the beach then back along the beach. I built a “JOHN” in the sand in memory of, well, surprisingly, John! Mike labelled a post (don’t ask!) and we then wandered on in the direction of food. We ate fish & chips sat on the grass then watched the sun set over the dunes. It was possibly the nicest evening I have had in years. It was great to be outside, by the sea, playing in the sand, laughing like kids, eating outside and all with no hassles. I loved it and I can safely say I loved Mike for giving me such a great evening. :-D

Yet Another Busy One!

Having a life is tiring I’ll have you know!

The past three days have been proper busy…well except yesterday but that is not the point!

Friday was our fundraiser day at work in aid of Cancer Research UK. It kept me busy all day long what with being in work for 7am and not leaving until 4.20pm I was really kinda shattered by the end of it all. However it was all for a good cause so I let that go. We had arranged a “Think Pink” dress down day so I was in so early to set up and then be ready to collect donations on the door from 7.30 as people arrived. We then had a cake sale and “Guess the Name of the Teddy” competition (she ended up being called Martha!) which basically took the rest of the day to finish off. I had help from a few of the other girls in the office and between us we collected over £600 for Cancer Research.

Friday evening Mike & I went down to Exmouth with Nat, Kelly & Will for Kelly’s 27th birthday. Lets just say Exmouth failed to deliver on the amazing night out front! In fact at half 12 we decided to go back to Exeter to go to Riva! One (rather quick!) drive back to Exeter later and we all headed into Riva which sadly was also crap! Grr! We decided that it is what you make it though so we hassled the DJ, danced and had a laugh. It turned into a cool night out and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Oh, and today is exactly one month since Mike & I met :-D He is THE most amazing guy I have ever had the pleasure to meet and I am so SO happy that I am with him. Long may it continue!!

Given that we didn’t get to sleep til well gone 4 in the morning Saturday was basically a write-off of laziness! We talked crap, slept, talked some more crap and generally had a great, lazy Saturday! In the evening we did eventually venture outside, to the Vue to see the new Transformers movie. I didn’t mind it – there were cars (I like cars!) they turned into stuff (that’s pretty cool!) they blew stuff up (I’m all about the blowing stuff up!) all tied up with a few neat one liners and a cute guy in an army uniform. What more do you need from a film?! Accuracy apparently according to Mike! It was a bit like me with the HPV movie – he didn’t like the discrepancies and therefore didn’t like the movie! Oh well!

Today though has been a far from lazy day. Today was the Race for Life at Westpoint. Me, Mum, Courts & 8 other girls from work were taking part so we have been out there most of the day. We arrived at just gone 9, had our faces painted (just little hearts on our cheeks!) got balloons and took part in the mass warm-up before completing the 5km course in 50 minutes exactly. Just like last year, the atmosphere was amazing and I really enjoyed it. We raised a stupendous amount of money for Cancer Research too so all in all a thoroughly successful day.

The Simp-sons!

Last night Mike & I went to the Vue to see the Simpsons movie. I have been really looking forward to this film and it lived up to expectations. The first half of the movie was better than the second since it was kind of a gag-a-minute (plus it had SpiderPig!!) but the whole thing totally stood up to being made into a feature film. LOVED IT!

I stayed at Mikes last night and (since he is beyond lovely) he dropped me home this morning in time for me to get showered and dressed and into work for 8 – thanking you!

Had this afternoon off which was good since I felt really rather woozy so slept most the afternoon then went to Makro and bought MANY cakes ready for our cake sale tomorrow at work. Looking forward to it!

Busy weekend, very little sleep!

Well, it’s over. I have waited over two years (2 years and 5 days in fact!!) for the final instalment in the Harry Potter series and now it is all over. :’(

On Friday night I had an evening out with Mike & two of his mates, Nick & Tom, for Mike’s birthday. We went to Harry’s for dinner which was really nice and then we went to The Ship for a couple of drinks. I was kinda nervous about the night, in part because of the agonising pain I had been in all week but mostly because I am always nervous about meeting people and then we were going out for food too and eating in front of people freaks me out! But I needn’t have worried. His mates were nice and it was a cool evening, really easy and no pressure. The whole night got SO much better though…

At about 11.30 (after managing to maintain my excitement quite well I felt!) we made our way to Waterstones to join the queue for the most hotly anticipated book of 2007! The guys were really good to wait with me, I thought they were likely to disappear off back to the pub but they didn’t and we queued up with me getting more and more excited! I finally had my prized possession, my copy of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows in my little mit by 12.20 and we were on our way back to Oke…quickly!

I read for about an hour until I just had to give into sleep (getting no sleep Thursday night due to agony = no sleep meant staying awake all night didn’t happen!) I was awake again at 6.30 though and reading reading reading! I basically read all day and I loved it! Needless to say I managed to get it finished before the weekend was out! I won’t go into details (although I am thinking everyone has read it by now!) but I loved it! Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t a perfect round up to the series but it is a good book all the same. Was a bit slow moving in the middle and I am not 100% sure about the final bit but there we go, it’s how JK Rowling chose to finish it so so be it. I personally feel there is definitely room a book 8 but I am thinking I may left wanting ☹ Oh well! Yay for HP! Need to re-read it now though since I read it so quickly I think I missed bits! I’ll leave that a while though me thinks.

Saturday night was taken up with marshalling in the Devon countryside for Exmouth Motor Clubs rally which started from Kennford. Me & Dad were out all night but, other than me nearly falling in a ditch (just for a change!) and it being a bit cold at times it was a good night. The rain held off and we were kept busy before heading back to the hotel in the morning for breakfast then home to bed! Mike & Nick came 4th and Graham & Roger won so not a bad night. I grabbed a few hours sleep on Sunday morning and went down to see Mike in the evening.

Today it has rained…lots! Me, Courts, Julie, Rach & Little Man went to Paignton Zoo for the day and we got soaked. It was a real shame as it just didn’t ease up until the second we walked back to the car. Oh well, we had a good day anyway, saw the animals, had a picnic and Little Man seemed to enjoy himself.

Now it’s all about getting warm and getting some sleep me thinks!

Please Do Not Disturb!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…Oh.My.God!

It is SO close!

Another weekend, another weekend spent with Mike (surprise surprise!) No, it wasn’t like that, I read HP while he worked on the car then we had an early night since he was off to London for the day on Sunday while I went to Bishop to visit Clare as she is home for a couple days. We had a cool afternoon, watched Chocolat, drank smoothies (which I managed to get straight down my jumper!) ate nibbles then had a roast! Yum yum! It was really good to see Clare and we had a laugh. I felt SO full when I left though! In fact I felt positively Pooh Bear like!

The rest of the week was kinda weird. I have had a totally owy pain in my chest since Tuesday afternoon to the point of almost crippling me. I was fine Monday night (which I spent at Mikes which was in one word A-MAZE-ING…or alternatively Orange!) but by Tuesday evening I had this pain. I thought it was maybe stress at work making me feel like it but on Wednesday night we went to the cinema (to see Die Hard 4.0 – a lot of blowing stuff up and people who seem to refuse to die – all good in my eyes!) problem was I nearly collapsed in pain. I could hardly breath, was having hot and cold flushes and was majorly sick when we got out of the screen. Nice. Mum thinks it is indigestion, I think I am dying! However I only had a half day yesterday so I have been eating Rennies & Gavascon and feeling sorry for myself!

Today got the day off and it is Mike’s birthday. We are going out tonight with two of his friends for a meal and a few drinks…and then it will be midnight! Oh, I can’t even talk about it!!

Bring on tomorrow!!!

HPV

It’s here!

Tonight I went with Mike to see my most anticipated movie of this year. Maybe even my most anticipated movie of the last two years! Not quite my most anticipated release of this year (that’s next week!)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

I was SO excited about this film. Like SOOOOOOOOOOO excited! And something awful happened…I don’t think I like it. :’( :’( Shocking I know!

I knew that there was going to be a lot missing that is in the book since HP5 is the biggest book but what they left in was too inaccurate. Well it was in my eyes. And it felt like the only one for the films so far that the film makers seem to have made fully assuming that everyone in the audience had read the book. I can’t knock them for it being an impressive film with some cool effects but still not what I had in my head. Not by a long shot.

Anyway I am going to go and see it again after next week when I have got the books out of my system so I can see if I can watch it as a separate entity from the books and actually like it!

We’ll see!

Another great few days!

I AM SO HAPPY !!!

Last weekend I spent nearly the whole weekend with Mike, I went to his after work on Friday and decided I couldn’t wish to meet a nicer guy! He listens to what I say even when I am just talking random rubbish and he takes it in and he does nice things. Namely he bought me roses. And DVDs! We had a conversation the other day that basically most peoples opinion of me is wrong and I just want to love & be loved & wanted all that romantic stuff that everyone seems to think I don’t. Like, someone buying me flowers just because or someone taking me out for the day to somewhere they think I would like or away for a weekend that I haven’t had to plan. And then we moved on and were talking films and looking on Play.com and I had said there was a box set I might get. So then when I got to his house he had bought me flowers for no reason and the DVD Boxset I had seen. How nice?! Anyway the evening was beyond amazing and it just got better as the night went on…

I had to be up early and back in Exeter for 9am to help Grandma & Grandad with the cottages again but then Mike came and picked me up at lunch time and we went up to Meldon Reservoir and spent a few hours up there in the sun. It was lovely. I have never met anyone who is SO easy to talk to. We can just talk and talk about absolutely nothing to be honest but it is totally great.

In the evening we went into Exeter to meet up with Nat & Kelly and a few others. Mike only stayed for a quick drink then headed home while the rest of us made our way into town for more drinks (and chips for me – I was starving!) before ending up in Riva. Thing is I wanted so much to spend the night with Mike that I didn’t drink…and went back to Oke after I went home. ☺ It meant that Sunday was great all over again! We had a lazy day and watched the Grand Prix.

The rest of the week so far has been pretty Mike themed too! He is all I can think about 24/7. I am smiling all the time and I love it! Even the crappy weather isn’t bringing me down that much! Yay!

The only problem with being this disgustingly happy and my mind being constantly full of Mike, Mike, Mike is that the HP re-read is suffering something chronic!

My Little Sister is Growing Up :’(

Tonight was Courts Leavers Ball from school and she looked simply stunning.

I helped her with her hair & make up and she wore a great Monsoon gown. She decided she wanted to arrive in style so, as something a bit different, we took Meera down to the hotel (Mum had plaited her mane & tail and put red & white flowers in her mane) and Courts rode her from the horse box round to the front of the hotel. In her ball gown and her heels. She looked so SO stunning. I cried! I was totally touched by it all.

Rach arrived in Cannons wrecker and looked nice in a pinky-purply dress. Actually they mostly all looked nice. There were lots of limos and posh cars and even a fire engine but I really think Courts stole the show. I am so proud of her. I can’t believe she has finished school, it makes me feel really old!

A great weekend!

Firstly I am disgustingly happy right now! Like, REALLY disgustingly so!

Friday night I saw Mike again. He picked me up from home and we went to Vue to see Shrek 3. We ended up being sat next to Amy Cole from work & her boyfriend. The film was cool (there were flying, fire breathing, baby donkeys!!) and seeing Mike again was just brilliant. We went to Wetherspoons for a drink after the film and then back to my house to watch a DVD…well I say watch…the DVD was on!

Saturday morning I helped Grandma & Grandad clean the cottages which, whilst being quite hard work, was cool. In the evening I headed down to Mikes place in Oke. We just talked and kissed for hours before watching Gone in 60 Seconds on DVD (with his very cool projector, not that I am jealous!) And then…well then I spent the night. No, it was not like that! It was nice, waking up knowing he was there and I was going to see him again straight away. We spent the day just hanging out. We went for a walk along the river (in the rain…with no coat!) Being with him is just so cool. Fingers properly crossed that it all goes well. Well, KEEPS going well coz this is an amazing start.

When I got home from Mikes I got changed to go to Dawlish since today is Little Man’s 1st Birthday. However I never got that far since as I was coming back down the stairs the damn dog pushed past me, took my legs out and I cracked into the stairs! Ow! So I ended up lying on the sofa with an ice pack and a hot-bean thing on my arse…classy!

But, even with the pain in my arse (!) I have had a totally great weekend.

Wow!

Ok, so you know I said I was meeting Mike on Friday? Well plans change! Last night I left work really needing to get out of the house so I thought “what the hell, bite the bullet!” and rang Mike to see what he was doing. Wonderfully as the answer was “Nothing” we arranged to go see Oceans 13 at the Picture House. Can I just say, best film I have not watched in a long time!!! But I am getting ahead of myself.

I arranged to meet him at Tuckers since its easy to find and I then drove us into town. I was still in kind of a bad mood from work and basically ranted the whole way into town which, whilst not a great first impression did at least mean I didn’t have time to be nervous!! When we got out of the car I basically calmed down and said hello!

And then he kissed me.

I could have quite happily scrapped the film altogether and just stood there, in the middle of the car park, and kissed him for the rest of the night. We didn’t scrap the film though, we eventually stopped kissing long enough to walk to the cinema, have a drink and find our seats in the screen. The rest of the time in the cinema was a bit of a blur! The film was on, I think it was ok, it had Brad & George & Matt in it so it cant have been bad but I was somewhat distracted by Mike. We were sat holding hands and it just felt so right. After the film we wondered down to the quay and stood on the bridge talking and kissing and it was BRILLIANT! B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T!!!

It feels like I have known him forever not that I have only just met him. Seriously, best first date in the history of the world EVER!

Quiet couple of weeks but…

Well the last couple of weeks haven’t been very exciting. The weather has turned again and has been overcast and wet and miserable. I haven’t really been out or done anything. However there is a ‘but…’! Basically it’s been a quiet couple of weeks BUT I have met a guy! Well not strictly true. I haven’t met him yet but for the last two weeks I have been talking to a guy called Mike who, I dunno, just seems great. I don’t want to tempt fate and say anything too much yet but let me just say I really REALLY hope we get on as well in real life as we do online because talking to him is just so amazingly easy and he seems, well, as I have already said – GREAT! We are meeting up on Friday so fingers crossed!

The Summer Is Here!

I LOVE THE SUMMER! Woo! The last week has been gorgeous and I have actually had a bit of a chance to get outside and enjoy it which is even better.

Grandma & I have been going out for walks in the evening which I have really enjoyed. I tend to march along which I think Grandma was a bit surprised by but I am not going out just for the sake of going for a walk, I want to lose some weight and get a bit fitter. Apart from the fact that it is making my hayfever play up it’s a really nice way to kill an hour each evening.

On Thursday I had the day off work and was up super-early to leave home at 6.30 with Mum, Dad, Bill, Julie & Little Man to go to Royal Cornwall Show. I have never been to Royal Cornwall before. I usually go to Devon County but couldn’t this year as I was in Salisbury visiting Clare so I thought as Mum & Dad were planning on going I would go with them. I’m really glad I did. It’s a lovely show.
We got to the showground after a little bit of time in traffic but nothing major and the first thing I saw, while we were sat in the traffic in fact, was a massive hot air balloon…with EDF Energy all over it!! Typical! Once we were in the show we had a bit of a wander around and then headed to the DAF stand for coffee before more looking around the trade stands (where Mum & Julie bought many tops!) We then positioned ourselves beside one of the horse rings to watch the showing and wait for Cathy Jane. It was such gorgeous weather too but I was not really dressed for it. I was planning on wearing more summery clothes but thought I might be tempting fate so I wore jeans & a t-shirt but I was SO hot. I ended up going and buying a pair of shorts, another t-shirt & a hat (I LOVE the hat!) Lunch consisted of a gorgeous roll from the hog roast & a pint of Guinness Extra Cold!! Ideal!
We ended up leaving the show at about 6pm after a really great day and when we got home Mum gave me a present – she had bought me a bracelet I had seen & liked but decided against buying! It’s really nice – thanks Mum!

Friday evening and Saturday were spent doing highly important summer stuff…basically lying by/in the pool!! The weather was so gorgeous on Friday when I got home from work that I decided against going out for a walk and went down by the pool for a while instead…hmm, a while turned into all evening! Spent some time sunbathing, some time floating round on a lilo, some time playing catch with a beach ball (and Courts – I wasn’t just throwing it to myself!) and plenty of time just enjoying the great weather.

Saturday was pretty much a carbon copy of Friday evening to be honest! Well, I did get up and go for a walk on my own first thing in the morning but then the rest of the day was spent mostly by the pool in the sun! Ideal! I have to admit I am a little red but fingers crossed for the red bits going brown rather than their usual trick of Red to Pink to Peeling to back to being white ☹!

Today has been the South Hams Motor Club autocross which was cool. Me & Dad went to marshal as always and had the idiot boy in tow (and trust me, he really is an idiot!) It was quite a long day but the weather was lovely again (and again I was wearing jeans and regretting it – ended up rolling them up!) Took lots of photos and enjoyed being out in the sun again.

I have to say I really do love the summer. The nice weather makes me so much happier and I can’t help but smile & want to be outside. I hope it stays nice for the rest of the summer.

Busy old weekend

I have had a crammed but good weekend! Friday I had an early finish from work to give me time to prep some things for Saturday, get to the post office & generally kick back. Saturday was BUSY!

There was a memorial service at Teign School for Mr Ramps then I had to draw 2 nearly-naked bodies! Yes that is what I said! One guy (in Calvin Kleins) and one woman (in a bikini) on flip chart sized paper. I then had to make a penis & a pair of boobs!! All the reasons for this will become clear shortly!
At 4pm I made my way down to the Double Locks to meet up with Gem & Chris from work for their ‘Hag Do’. This would be their joint Hen/Stag do! This would also be the reason behind me drawing random partly dressed people & body parts – pin the body part on the person! After a few drinks I felt like I had caught up with the rest of the group who mostly had been drinking for some time at bowling already. The atmosphere was great, the weather held out, we played rounders and chatted and laughed and ate before I got picked up at 8ish to disappear off to the Plymouth Rally.

Now I was slightly worse for wear by the time me & Dad arrived at Launceston Rugby club but I was in good spirits until we found that we had been given two measly PCs…the first one not until 1 in the morning. NOT happy. We had rang the guy organising the marshals and told him that yes, we were coming, we were going to be a bit late (9pm) but we would DEFNINATELY be there and wanted to be kept busy as I was giving up a night out, Dad was having to work the next morning and we were driving some distance just to marshal. So to be given just two PCs really took the proverbial. But as we were there already we decided to just go with it. As it was so long til our first control and we were in the rugby club and I was already drunk I decided best to carry on as I had started and had another pint! We spent some time chatting with Alan & his family before heading out to our first control and catching some sleep before course opening car…yea, bad idea. Drink + Stop Drinking + Sleep = Feeling Rough! I made it through the first control OK though and then we relocated to our second control. Hmm, closest I have ever come to throwing up whilst reading a map in the car! I felt beyond awful at the second control but I made it, I wasn’t sick and we were finished! Dad dropped me home and I was tucked up in bed by 5am with the remnants of my hangover while Dad went on to work. Can’t say that I was overly impressed with the general running of the rally, not from a marshals perspective and from what I have heard from competitors it was nearly as good on their side!

I have spent today snoozing on and off, wrote in my journal and played on the laptop so an ideal Sunday really.

John’s gone…

Well this is weird…last night, in true Wednesday tradition John & I went out for the evening however we didn’t go to the cinema. We went to the Waterfront for pizza and a couple of drinks which was really nice – the place looks weird after the refurb but the food was good & the service was quick as always. After stuffing ourselves silly we headed back to my house to watch The Last King of Scotland on DVD and to play on the net. I have to admit I felt like I was glossing over the fact that this was his “leaving dinner” as I am going to miss him so much. I know it is just really selfish and that he is only going to Scotland not the other side of the world but since he got home form uni we have seen each other almost every week and I have got so used to having him just down the road. I am really really going to miss him. I really do wish him well and I hope that he settles in ok and finds his feet quickly. He is my best friend and I want him to be happy with the decisions he makes and will support him no matter what. As I did say to him it is much better to go and make an informed decision as to whether it is right or wrong for you than to not go on the off-chance it is the wrong choice and then spend forever wondering if maybe you were wrong.

So…Good Luck John! xXx

Bank Holiday Weekend

Was meant to be going to the gymkhana with Dad Sunday but when I got up it was hammering down at home and I decided that I could probably put up with being cold & wet all day and I could probably put up with James who was going but I didn’t think I could put up with being cold, wet AND being with James all day! So in the end I stayed home. Worked out well since me, Mum & Courts went to the 7 Stars for lunch (even if they did forget me originally but they remembered me in the end!) It rained ALL day on Sunday so I felt I had made the right decision until Dad & James got home and said it hadn’t rained where they had been! Oh well, I had a good day anyway.

Yesterday the weather perked up and Simon & Tim came to visit. It was weird seeing Simon again after all this time but it was really cool & relaxed. Simon & Tim both rode Sputnik & Courts rode Megan.

So that was my lazy Bank Holiday weekend. I haven’t got a lot planned for this week, going out with John on Wednesday but that’s the sum of it. Next weekend is busy though.

Just a quiet week...

Had a quiet week really, work, messing up with field with the foal, playing on the net...nothing exiting in anyway!

Went to the cinema last night with John to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. It is obviously one of the most hyped films of this year and, although not as good as the first two in my opinion, I liked it!

Gonna have a lazy Bank Holiday weekend now, got no plans other than a gymkhana tomorrow with Dad so will just see what comes up!

Had a brilliant weekend a’visiting!

This weekend has been brilliant!

John and I drove up to Clare’s straight after I finished work on Friday (well I drove, John left his car at my house) We arrived at Clare’s with perfect timing as she drove in and parked just after we got out of the car.

Friday night consisted of a trip to Waitrose to buy Pizza & Pudding (all of which was yummy!) then chatting, eating, drinking, laughing, more chatting – good night was had by all basically!

Saturday John and I were both awake by just gone 8am for some reason but as we were both sleeping on air beds in the living room we chatted for a bit then turned on the TV before Clare eventually surfaced and we went into Salisbury town for some site seeing, photo taking , DVD renting, general mooching and CAKE! We took John to the chocolate shop (http://www.chocolatesandpatisserie.com/) for brunch type thing! Clare and I, having learnt our lesson last time, had homemade lemonade (with a scoop of lemon sorbet) then Clare had scones with clotted cream & jam and I had a small (but WAY rich) chocolate ganache tart. John however was drawn by the sight of the Black Forest Gateaux…foolish foolish boy! It was slab like, totally gorgeous but slab like! Needless to say he didn’t eat it all and then felt ill! After cake we went around to the cathedral for some photo moments (which lead to much hilarity involving a giant Vice Versas and then me & Clare on a bench – don’t ask!) We decided to make our way back to Clare’s flat, via Blockbuster to get some DVDs (since I forgot to take Last King Of Scotland up!) since the weather wasn’t great – quite cold and very windy – and looked like it was going to get worse. We certainly made the right decision since just as we were leaving the town it started to rain and as we came round the corner to Clare’s it tipped down! Nice! It was fine though, we got dried off, put food in the oven (yummy nibbly things) and settled down to watch The History Boys (one of mine & John’s top 5 films for last year) I must admit I did doze through some of it but never mind eh?!

We had to make another trip to Waitrose for dinner related foodstuffs (pasta followed by hot chocolate brownie goo cake!) then, after dinner and a few drinks we played Cranium – me & John against Clare & Dave. There was more drinking accompanying the playing and much laughter and unfortunately (very unfortunately in fact for Dave!) some drinking and laughter at the same time resulting in drink being projected with much force out of the mouth & nose of the person concerned and all over the table, the Cranium board and Dave!! (Ok, the person spitting on Clare’s boyfriend was me but in my defence Clare had been told NUMEROUS times NOT to talk when I was drinking!) Anyways…after a swift change by Dave and a wipe up by John we continued the game with John & I emerging victorious although to be honest I think the scoring was a bit off since we just wanted the game to last longer!

The night then got messy, sorry messier when we decided to take photos…outside…at 12.30 at night! Yup, Clare’s neighbours now hate her! We were rolling around on the floor, making friends with the brass ducks and jumping off rocks all causing much hilarity. Photo evidence on MySpace/Facebook!

We eventually got to sleep at some God-Awful hour of the morning only to wake up at 8am AGAIN! Due to the pain I was in (knee due to rock jumping, side due to rolling on the floor & head due to vodka!) I decided the best course of action was to get up and have a shower…then lie on the sofa watching the Hollyoaks omnibus! I was joined on the sofa by John and eventually Clare where we discussed the need for hangover food. We gallantly made our way to Burger King (!) then on to the cathedral green type area where we sat in the sun, ate hangover food then lounged around for a bit enjoying being outside and warm! We tootled back to Clare’s to watch Sideways but it wasn’t really a great film in my book (not that either John or I saw a lot of it since we both went to sleep!) but Clare enjoyed it so that’s fine. John and I made our way home from Clare’s about half four and, except for the other idiots on the road, the drive home was fine.

I had a totally awesome time with Clare and John & me all together again. Its going to be really weird thinking of John so far away in a couple of weeks but I wish him well & I know we’ll be in touch – I’m going up to see him in August – so it’s not too bad. Its just that since he moved home from uni I have got used to him being just down the road & to us meeting up every week. I mean, who am I going to Orange Wednesday with now?! O well, I will just have to deal with it.

Looking forward to the weekend

I’ve had a relatively quiet couple of weeks since the Bank Holiday – been to the cinema to watch Spiderman 3 (really good!) been chatting to Chris Simmons (from school) and Graham Dance (from the rallying type peoples) on MSN then gone and got a cold-flu type thing which is nice. Spent all last weekend in bed trying to get rid of said cold-flu thing. Well I did go to Johns for dinner on Friday evening and then slept through Casino Royale on DVD! And Saturday afternoon I went into town for a drink with Gareth but it made me feel so drained. That’s been pretty much the story for this week actually – living on lemsip and getting through a staggering amount of tissues trying to clear my cold ready for this weekend…

ME & JOHN ARE GOING TO VISIT CLARE! Woo! Really looking forward to it!

Long weekend!

Had quite a cool week this week – work has sucked but what’s new but outside of work, all good.

I went out with Gareth on Tuesday night for a meal. We met in town and then walked up to Harry’s in Longbrook Street. Had a really nice meal but I think I probably pissed him off since I was a bit cranky and he really annoyed me when we first met up as his phone went off and he answered it (which on its own isn’t a major crime!) but he then proceeded to have a conversation with his mate about cars…nice. That’s great manners there! Anyway the evening improved and I think we had a good night.

Wednesday saw me and John at another Orange Wednesday cinema visit. This time it was to watch ‘The Lives of Others’ which is the film the beat Pan’s Labyrinth to the ‘Best Foreign Language Oscar’ spot. We went primarily to see what made it better than Pan’s and, truth be told, we’re still not really sure! It was a good film; based in East Berlin after the end of WW2 it follows one surveillance man and the couple he is tailing. It was a bit slow moving in places and not one I will be making an effort to watch again but still good. Not as good as Pan’s though! I went to the cinema again Thursday night but this time in Plymouth with Gareth to see Fracture, the new Anthony Hopkins movie. Another good film with a good cast and a nice twist at the end.

Thursday we had a new arrival in the Howard Family. No not another chav child (thank god!) but Maggie May, one of our horses, FINALLY had her foal! She was born at 2.12am under the full moon and she is beautiful! Currently without name although we are thinking along the lines of May Moon (it’s May, there was a full moon – see how we were thinking there?!) Think she’s gonna be an ideal way to waste time since we can just sit and watch her run around!

Friday didn’t really go to plan though…I was meant to be going away for a couple nights but that’s not happening now. Gareth has decided he just wants to be friends (story of my life) which, although I wish it was different, isn’t the end of the world I suppose. We haven’t known each other very long so life goes on and you can never have too many mates! Anyway it freed me up to go out and play with my friends! I went out Saturday with Carla and her mate Rachael which was cool, we laughed so much, it was like old times. I really enjoyed it. Yesterday and today have been a mix of cars, laziness and BBQs which has been cool – best way to spend a Bank Holiday!