Oh dear...

Me, Chris, Jessica and Leanne...



The true sign of a good snakky session...inappropriate embraces

Lunt - these proof enough that I am not an imposter?...

Shane and me. We'd had a few drinks by this stage you know...

And the award for most drunk goes too...

Me and Leanne showing off her and Jessica's medals. I wasn't planning on giving it back easily...

Who the devil are you?...

Me and some random Disco Stu character...

Textbook v's...

We moved on to the Dogs Bollix to listen and sing along to a couple of guys playing guitar.

Then on to a bar where my arm wasn't stamped so I've no idea what it was called. More beers/shooters/cocktails here and by about 3 it was time to stumble in to a taxi and go home.

Chris, Si and my ever so funny self...

Snakky beneath the St George...

There was only one proper way to celebrate the girls' achievements - Snakebite Sunday.

We started with champagne and soon moved on to the good stuff. Several vats later, the 4 of us were joined by Shane (Leanne's brother) and Chris (Leanne's cousin).

Shane being the legend that he is brought more ingredients with him and the snakky b's continued to flow.

Here's me excitedly tucking in my next glass...

Mad swimmers...

It was an early start on Sunday as Leanne and her friend Jessica were competing in the King of the Bays ocean race. Leanne finished the 1k race in around 17 minutes and Jessica did the 2.8k in 54 minutes. Unbelievable times if you ask me, especially as it was pretty choppy out there...

A chimp...

Zoo time...

We were turfed out at 10am the next day, and the only option we had when feeling that ropey was to go and look chimps.

Si and our beast of a car...

The leftovers...

Game on

What an action packed weekend. Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start...

I met up with Si after work on Friday and we headed off to Hamilton in our hire car. We were expecting a little corolla but ended up with a pretty sporty Mitsubishi Lancer.

I'm not sure what the old couple running the hostel thought as we walked in through the door with a couple of carrier bags of booze as our only luggage. But here was our challenge, and a pretty daunting one to boot.



With virtually all bottles drained we headed in to town. We were out for what must have been about 6 hours but it felt like about 10 minutes. Probably due to the nastiest shooter I've had - the ingredients were Bacardi 151, Jagermeister, Aftershock and Tequila.

Don't really have much else to tell I'm afraid, other than the collection of teen disco stamps on my arms indicated we went to Axces, Bahama Club, Outback and Monkeyfeather.

Cocktails and Dreams...

My CV took a turn for the diverse last night - I did my first shift behind a bar. Despite not having the first clue what I was doing I managed to muddle through. Thrown right in at the deep end too with my 2nd order being 2 kilkenny's, 4 murphys red, 4 murphys and a Celtic. If you hadn't guessed already it's an Irish bar.

The Jim Beam promo girls swanning around also made it an enjoyable experience.

All that vodka and redbull so close at hand....ahhhh the temptation.

Still, only a couple of hours till me and Si hit the bars of Hamilton. Expect a messy tale and some equally messy pictures by the end of the weekend...

The birthday boy does it in style...

Got sent this picture from the Heyes birthday celebrations...I think he's on his arse, at the bottom of the stairs.

Good work Heyesie

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Happy Birthday Heyesie...

Again I'm missing out on the celebrations, which will no doubt look something a little like this...

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Happy Birthday Dad!

Sorry that I'm not there to celebrate it with you. The best I could do was a "hilarious" card and to put this family picture up on the net. Enjoy the day...

Happy Easter

When Jesus gave up the fags for 40 days and 40 nights then stuffed himself to bursting on chocolate eggs he probably didn't know we'd still be celebrating it a couple of thousand of years later.

Have a great few days off work everyone...

(Sorry for this post Mum. To make things worse I've only got meat in the fridge for dinner)

Relax people...

I bought booze in yesterday, so I'll be able to spend Friday night watching the rugby (yawn) with a few bottles of Becks (yippee).

In other news, Si had his head shaved the other day after about 4 months of growing it. Fortunately I managed to get this picture on my phone of his sumo do before it disappeared....

It's the weekend...

Well, I've finished reading the 72nd best book in the world. I enjoyed it. Not sure why though, it's about an awkward, socially inept character who's good at maths. Hmmm.

Anyway, Easter is upon us. 4 days off work but some strange licensing laws over here are trying to dictate it to be a dry weekend. On Friday and Sunday Pubs/clubs are shut and NOWHERE sells alcohol apparently. Which also means everywhere shuts at midnight on Thursday and Saturday.

Disgrace.

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Dan Lane, one of the Staffordshire University gang, has done what social services would have recommended he shouldn't had they seen him hunched over a littlewoods catalogue with a pair of scissors that time...he's become a father.

Here is a picture of young Joshua who weighed in at 9lb 9. Congratulations to the Lane family!...