These holes are too tight!

Hello readers and I appologise for yet another delay in the whole grand-order of things that is my blog. The reason for the delay is the fact that nowadays I find it hard to access my computer as my mother does insist in spending all day chatting to people on it...

But enough ranting, let's blog...

Ok, Wednesday. Well not a lot happened actually, and in the evening I went down to fathers as usual...

So I guess that would bring us on to Thursday. I will skip work and get straight to the evening because I went with Donna to "The Sunflower Lounge" in Birmingham to see a couple of live bands...

Donna very kindly picked me up at about 9:30pm in her lovely little VW Beetle. We set off and made a slight detour to pick up another friend of hers, before driving (quite rapidly) in to Birmingham! After parking up we took a short walk to Where we were meant to be... I got the first round in and we headed downstairs to where the stage is. We met up with Niccola and Spike who were already there (as per the plan.)

The evening was a good one. The drinks weren't too expensive and the end result of it all is lost somewhere in the back of my mind, obscured by an alchohol-induced, mild-amnesia. After the gig, Donna dropped me home and I went to bed...

... Friday morning was hell. You know what I mean. When you've drank quite a bit, and then have to face the world again less that 6 hours after passing out... I went to work and perked up quite a bit during the day, thank god. I did the usual teaching/tidying/tormenting and was out of work for about 3:30pm. I came home and played a bit of Oblivion for a bit before getting ready to go out. This time I was going to Reflex on Broad Street with Donna and some of her friends...

... Donna very kindly picked me up in her lovely little VW Beetle. We set off and made a slight detour to pick up some friends of hers... (I'm having De Ja Vu!)... From the Drawbridge pub. After collecting them we shot in to town and met up with some other people. Now after Thursdays antics I was going to play it safe... Just a couple of pints and a dance, nothing more...

... That plan was enforced to the letter by the fact that even if I wanted to get absolutely Rat-faced, I couldn't because of the moronic, dim-witted, stupid, fat, bloated, saggy-arsed troll behind the bar! She was useless! Honestly, I've met diseases with more charm and personality than the thing waddling up and down, trying to serve drinks!

Anyway, enough of her, the vile creature! I had a few pints and a dance-or-two and at christ-knows-what-time-AM we decided to go, since the birthday-boy was smashed beyond reason (on a mixture of alcohol and "other substances" shall we say) and everyone looked like that they were going to fall asleep. We said goodbye and made our way back to the car. After Donna dropped me home, I went straight to bed!

Ah... saturday...


... What the hell did I do saturday?


... Oh yeah! I got up and had brekkie, and early on in the afternoon I went, with mother, over to Selena's. My nan and grandad were already there and Kieron was sat in the lounge playing Command & Conquer 3. I have downloaded the demo on xbox live and it looks good, but I always prefer playing RTS games with a mouse...

Ah well.

After leaving at around 4:30pm I phoned around to see if anyone was up for going out somewhere. It turns out that everyone was up for a bit of bowling, so Adam, Carl, Marcus, and Jenny got to my house for early-evening. I waited until everyone had arrived before going to pick John up. When I had him in the car, I phoned the others to let them know to start out and I would meet them in Hollywood bowl.

We arrived for 9:20pm and had a lane booked for 9:40. This was handy as I had managed to beat the others to Rubery by about 5 minutes... So this gave us time to queue up and get served. The lady who served us looked like a waxwork of Anne Robinson that had been left by the fire a bit too long, and was moving at about the average speed of any waxwork model...

Anyway, after getting the bowling shoes (Marcuses were still warm from the previous occupier!)
I inputted the names on the score computer... In doing this I accidentally started typing on the wrong panel and altered the screen of the people who were on the next lane...

... Oops. I managed to correct everything though and we got started. Being Saturday it was very busy and that meant that the first problem we encountered was the fact that we couldn't find the right size balls...

... I will give you a second to get the laughter out of your system...

... Ok? Right, well the balls were either the wrong weight, or were designed for people with little fingers...

... Again, I will give you second to get the laughter out of your system...

... So our first game didn't go spectacularly well, and I think I ended up coming 4th, with Jenny or Adam coming 1st. Our second game was better though. Half way through I managed to find some 12lbs, large-drill bowling balls which improved our game, somewhat. At the end of the second game I came in 3rd, with Jenny winning, I think. After we had got our own shoes back on I drove home, with Carl behind me. When we got back to my house Jenny and Marcus went because of getting up early on the sunday, but Adam, Carl, and John came in for a bit to watch Red-Dwarf and Top Gear. We decided that on the Sunday we would go to the Tolkien weekend at Sarehole Mill, the place where J.R.R Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, grew up. Sarehole Mill is less than 10 miles away from where I live, so we have been going every year, for the past 3 or 4 years. The plan was to get to Johns house for 11:30am and I would drive to the Mill... After this was finalised, everyone left and I had a quick go on Oblivion...

... Until I looked outside and thought "Why is it light outside?" The answer was simple, I had lost track of time and it was 5:00am! I hurryied up to get some sleep before having to go to Johns house for 11:30am....

... 11:30am...

... 11:30 am...

... I awoke at prescisely 1145am and immediately went in to that kind of panic-rush that people sometimes do if they are late for something...You know the one I mean, it's where you aimlessly charge around trying to catch-up with yourself, whilst constantly saying "bollocks.bollocks.bollocks.bollocks.bollocks.bollocks.bollocks" over and over to yourself in your head.


Anyway, I got to Johns for 11:55am (No, really, I did! As soon as I woke-up I just threw on some clothes, grabbed my wallet, phone, and keys and dashed out the house, still half asleep!)
We set out and was parked up by 12:15pm after I had missed the entrance to the carpark which I did the year before as well.

Our little fellowship spent some time walking around the tents, gawping at the fat women dressed as elves, and admirig the guy chainsawing a log in to a sculpture of something. After I had spotted a couple of Woodrush kiddies we went round the mill itself...

I have visual media for you readers!

sarehole Mill... It's lovely on the inside, don't you know! Anyway readers, I Swear you wouldn't believe just how much there is to do in and around the mill... Look! I have videos to prove it...








See? Riveting stuff!

Well anyway, after we had finished with the mill, we decided to have a quick pint in the Drawbridge pub. Whilst there the Drawbridge itself was raised... Now I have lived in Wythall all my life and I have NEVER seen it in operation...



So there we go! After our swift pint we decided, randomley, to have a barbeque at Carls house! we shot over to Carls and got started. After piling the coals, and adding copius amounts of lighter gel (or barbecue jizz as we somehow named it!) we got the thing burning in no time at all... We ate the equivalent of a childrens petting zoo! Sausages, bacon, then burgers, chicken, and more sausages just semed to keep coming. It was great. We had a spell of fun on Carls Wii before leaving at about 9:00pm so that I could call in on my nan like I always do on a Sunday before coming home to bed...

Now what I will do here, dear reader, is end this blog so that when I (Hopefully) blog next Sunday, I will be bloging as full week and everything will be back to normal...

TTFN