Calling all readers, calling all readers...
Carrie in her wedding dress. It seems like only yesterday that we were running round Meadow Green playground playing tag and hide and seek...
Carrie and Mark with Marks parents.
I wish them the very best for the future. Actually the day was brilliant, me and John left Wythall at 10:00am and got to Weston for about 12:00 mid-day. The service was at 1:00pm and we had the meal afterwards. We were sat on a table with 3 couples (who I reckon thought that me and john were an "item" which I had to correct.) Alex and Kate were sat to my immediate left and they were probably the best couple in the hotel... We were in hysterics at some of the stories. Kate was half-drunk, and Alex sort of sounds like Eddie Izzard when he speaks... Fantastic!
After the meal we had some time to relax before bidding everyone farewell and heading back to Wythall. On the way I stopped at a service station because my eyes were sagging. I ordered my first ever Double Espresso... Boy do those things perk you up! It was like drinking bitumen... Only the after taste resembles coffee, it really is quite strange. But it worked, and we were back on my way. I was home for 8:00pm and was in work for 8:30... Doh! It was a good night actually, with a good band on. Quite a frantic day really.
Now on to much more serious matters. Mr Turbitt has set me a challenge, and it is one that I think I can safely take up. Earlier on this evening, Monday 27th September 2005, Mr Turbitt said the following:
"I bet you wont be able to find another living person with the name, Adam Turbitt"
Right then... I, Mr Gareth Evans, being of sound body and mind hereforth declare that I will not reast until I have made contact with, and spoken to, another Adam Turbitt. There we are... On with the show. I will use the internet, phone book, and any other weapon of choice to track down an alternative Mr Adam Turbitt.
Thats all from me now... I'm off to bed. TTFN readers.
Ah readers, I appologise for my slight break in my blogging but I have been busy playing a free online game called Runescape. It is a badly animated point and click game. Annoying, yet strangely addictive. However, enough of that, let us move on to the main blog:
On Tuesday it was the open day at Woodrush. I was up in the art studio co-ordinating the "have-a-go" table. It was the only real activity that the kids could try out. It was good doing little worshop sessions throughout the evening with potential pupils. I really felt like an ambassedor for the school. Part way through the evening I heard the unmistakeable chatter of Jason, Lank, and Daniel. They had come along to have a wonder round to meet some of the teachers that taught us all. Lovely... Except that they turned up looking like a bunch of escaped convicts!
The day after was interesting with all the staff remarking on what weird friends I have...
In Religious Studies Ms Shahid let the kiddies watch "The Nutty Professor" as a thankyou for their help the previous week in setting up the display in the classroom. I had forgoten how much swearing their is in it!
Anyway, today I electrocuted 2 pupils...
... Yes readers, you read that right. In science everyone was doing an experiment involving electrodes and conductive liquids. 2 pupils were messing around with them so I cranked the power packs from 2 volts up to 10 volts and just waited... Sure enough, they ended up touching electrodes without knowing I had given them a bit more kick.... Rather funny to watch and then even funnier when the teacher accidentally did it to another kiddie... Ha ha. Fantastic!
Well I went up the Swan tonight as per usual. We were all sat outside for a while but decided to move indoors when everyone started to feel the cold. We were then joined by a couple of morons who wanted to have a karaoke session so they started singing really loud, in a weird american accent. Trust me, the word "Wankers" doesn't even come close to describing them. Unfortunately Julia found them hilarious and was encouraging them by laughing along to their antics... Lovely... Not. I was glad to leave the place.
In lanks car on the way home I figured out how to take better quality videos on my phone, which was a bonus. I took a few "interesting" vids and have them stored on my PC. Ha ha!
Right, well I am off to bed now, readers. TTFN
Here we are again folks. This is the final few photos from Reading...
All American Rejects seen here along with some guy with curly ginger hair not paying attention stood right in front of me...
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And again, All American Rejects but this time the Ginger ninja has awoken from his drug induced meditation.
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Biffy Clyro: Bum waggling Scottish rockers who have their bass stupidly low. So low in fact that my chest started to hurt whilst listening to them!
And there we have it. that was the last of the pictures. Now on to blogging normaly again: Firstly, I have a new phone! It is a Sony Ericsson K750i and it is brilliant. I have changed from pay-as-you-go to a monthly subscription with O2 Online. Very nice. It came with the cable and software to connect it to my PC, and with a free Akono HBH-600 Bluetooth headset. This all looks rather niffty and performs well.
Yesterday, Me, Adam, Carl and John went for a curry at The Bilash in Knowle. I had something that came with hot battered bananas... Interesting.
We then went back to Adams house to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I had never seen it before but it was very interesting. I then came home and went to sleep. Lovely!
Right... I am off now to try and win an iPod mini with a packet of crisps... I doubt I will win but it's a bit of fun non-the-less. TTFN readers
And here we go again readers with the second of the Reading Galleries. Due to Blogger having a limit on how many photos can be uploaded to a single post there will in fact be a gallery number 3! You lucky, lucky people!
Right, allow me to introduce some bands (and some rather bad photography)
Believe it or not, this is Queens of the Stone Age. In case you were wondering, the sticker on that bloke's cap says: "Bollocks To Poverty" but it is stuck on upside down.
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This is Million Dead playing inside the Lock up tent. I can't explain the purple stuff at the top of the picture. Perhaps I have succesfully photographed pure music!
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Ah yes. Now we get to the big boys. See that little red dot in the middle of the photo? That's Dave Grohl, that is,
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And again! This photo was taken after I muscled my was forward slightly along with Mr Turbitt.
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A photo of Mr Grohl playing drums. The picture is of one of the big screens at the side of the main stage so that the people at the back can see...
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Here we have a photograph of Mr Brian Warner, commonly known as Marilyn Manson. Again, the photo is taken of the big screen......
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..... Because this is the actual view we had of him. He's there in the middle. Look. Can you see him?
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And finally readers, possibly one of my better photos. This sunset happened on the Sunday evening. Lovely! Well that's it for now. Be on the look out for Gallery 3 featuring All American Regects and Biffy Clyro!
Here it is folks. Sorry I haven't updated for a week but what with the new term starting I have been pretty busy. But enough of that. I present to you the first of 2 galleries of the 2005 Reading Festival.
This gallery is of the campsite and the people who I am proud to call my friends...
Right... On with the show!
Here we see Mr John Robinson (Photographus Maximus) in the age old tradition of "shoe swigging" where by one attempts to consume a quantity of alchohol from a form of traditional footwear.
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Mr Robinson again, this time actually in the process of filling the shoe with his favorite beverage, Jack Daniels and coke. This type of behaviour has never before been witnessed first -hand in the wild.
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Dwelling next door to Mr Robinson was Mr Adam Turbitt. (Sensiblius Sensiblius) In this early morning photo the subject appears to be confused and dosile, probably due to lack of sleep. Do not let this facade fool you, however, as Mr Turbitt will often strike without warning and is particularly quick over short distances.
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Ah, now we come to one of my favorite photos. A view of the campsite. Points of interest include my own dwelling, on the right, and the face of Miss Gemma Tonks (Lovelius Carlsbergia) peering out of her shared dwelling.
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Here is a lovely view of some other dwellings dotted around the field. As you can see, territory is scarce and the different tribes will often fight for supremecy over a claim to a particular area of land.
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Here, I am (on the right) joined my Mr John Robinson and Mr Adam Turbitt as we came across the second rarest species at the festival. Mr Luke Turbitt (Totalius Insanium) a close relation to Mr Adam Turbitt, but with a much more colourful plumage, as seen here.
Is it with regret that after a whole weekend with my cameras at the ready, I failed to catch the rarest species at the festival on film. That species being Miss Jo Hindmarsh. (shortius but sweetius) There is little photographic footage of this species as the sight of a camera causes her to dive back into her dwelling. One thing is fact though: Without her, or indeed the others, the whole weekend just wouldn't have been as good...
Well readers. On Tuesday I got to Kate's house at 08:45 to find that Kate, Naomi, James, Kirstie, Rebecca, and Connie were nearly ready (note: Kirstie and Rebecca are Kate's younger sisters and are at Woodrush, as is Connie, who is a friend of Rebbecas.) After some dallying about I set off with Naomi and Kirstie in my car with Kate and the others following me. We had to stop off at the post office because Naomi had to post a package but there was a queue (the first of many) which made us a little late. I got some petrol and checked my tires and then went off to Jennys house. I got there at about 09:30. She dived in my car and we set off to Alton Towers.
We headed through Birmingham towards Litchfield and Uttoxeter. The journey was uneventful except for a stretch of road just south of Abbots Bromley. A car coming the other way started flashing his lights at me. I slowed down because I thought he had spotted something wrong with my car, but that wasn't the problem. As we went round the next bend we saw mayhem. A Renault Clio was in the middle of the road with the windshield smashed in and the passenger side wing was badly dented. On the floor was thre remains of a motorbike, and the rider was lying face down on the verge with, and I'm not exaggerating, limbs twisted all over the place. His helmet was intact but it was obvious that his arms and legs were broken, if not shattered. There were no police or ambulances on the scene so I reckoned that the accident must have happened no more than 5 minutes before we passed...
... Nasty
We got to Alton Towers for 11:00... Correction... We got to the queue for Alton Towers for 11:00. After waiting to park, catching the monorail, and getting the wristbands it was closer to 12:00 noon. Since I couldn't decide what to get Kate for her birthday, I paid for her ticket (ain't I sweet? no? oh, ok then...)
Everyone went in to HEX first, which is basically like The Haunting at Drayton Manor with a virtually identical ride at the end. Afterwards Jenny, Kate, and Rebbeca went on Ripsaw. I chose not to as I was concerned that my breakfast would make a forced reappearance. After Ripsaw there was some confusion about whether or not to have lunch. Women, being women, decided to argue about it which upset Kate a bit. We sat down to lunch but Kate walked off. I decided to try and cheer her up so I went after her. After lunch it was decided that the group split up so that everyone got a chance to do what they wanted. Me, Jenny, Kirstie and Connie went on Nemesis. We then met up with the others to do Duel which is like a haunted house version of the Golden Nugget ride at Drayton Manor. I got a massive score, proving for once and for all that I am a true geek, but at least I am a geek with good aim! We then went to do the Log Flume. Me, James, Kate, and Jenny got in to one bath (yes, you sit in a bath) following the rest. Now why we didn't sit boy-girl-boy-girl I don't know. But we ended up with Jenny at the back with Kate sat between her legs and I was in the middle with James sat between my legs... Lovely... Not! On the way round Kate jumped out of her skin when a section of track ran through a dark tunnel and a giant rubber duck jumped out of the wall with a loud psychotic quacking sound... Freaky!
We then went round to the Rapids where me and Naomi got the brunt of the soaking... We decided to ride it again... Where me and Naomi got the brunt of the soaking.
Afterwards we wanted to ride the Runaway Mine Train but the rides were closing as it was 18:30. Naomi, Kate, and Jenny decided to try and jump over the gate to try and join the last of the queue but were spotted and told off by a man with a megaphone. Cheaters never prosper.
We then went round some of the little stalls before setting off to get back on the monorail to the carpark... Which we had to queue for... Yes, you even have to queue to leave! On the way back I went via the motorway. I dropped everyone off and then went up to the White Swan where I was joined by Jenny, Nikky, and Julia.
Altogether an enjoyable day.
Well thats enough from me. The Reading photos should be posted on Saturday.
TTFN readers.
