Archive for year 2005

It’s nearly the weekend already and I still haven’t caught up with last weekend…

Friday night was good, went out in Clapham with Sian and some of her friends to celebrate Juliet’s birthday – started in Eco and then went on to a Fine Line – far too many glasses of red wine – but it was a great night.

Slept as much as possible on Saturday but then went out for our annual trip to Up The Creek in Greenwich for Sara’s birthday – a couple of beers to celebrate in the Wetherspoons first and then on to the comedy. Don’t think I’d seen any of the 3 performers before so it was really quite good – slightly spoilt by the worst and most annoying heckler in world but fortunately the crowd turned on her and told her sit down and shut up. Comedy finished about 11.30 and unfortunately I couldn’t hang around for the usual cheesy disco… I had party to go to…

Finally made it to Chris’ at midnight, after a tube, a taxi and a bit of a walk but it was well worth it – as usual Chris hosted us in some style with gallons of beer – lots of food – good music and entertainment and bottles of Jack Daniels that were bigger than my head. Think I messed things up a bit for Chris by opening his front door to a bunch of randoms who claimed to know him. Once we got them back out of the house it was back to trying to bottle torpedo Reefs and managing to stick things to Chris’ double height ceiling. I can tell you its quite scary standing at the top of 15 feet high drunken people pyramid. Thanks to Sigrid and Anita for teaching me how to open a beer bottle with a lighter and I now know three words in Danish (dunno how to spell them though) – “Skol” = cheers; “Tak for hiltz” = thanks for last time and err… I seem to have forgotten the third!

Matt and I got a dodgy cab back at 4 in the morning having had one beer too many but were entertained by the cab driver who not only claimed to be a close personal friend of Louie Walsh and had given him the idea for it but was also a world class level pool player… one had to wonder why he was driving a cab round the east end of London at 4 in the morning given his high-flying lifestyle.

Photos from the party can be found at Chris’ website – Leaving London Party Photos.

The weekend wasn’t over there either, another lie in to try and cure my hangover had no effect but it wasn’t long before I was back in Greenwich – this time to meet up with Simon, Derek and Johnny. Had a few drinks in the Hardy (my favourite pub in Greenwich) before heading back to the Comedy Club for their “£5 Sunday Special” – and it was “special”. The first act spent most of the time beat-boxing but at least his was funny. The next guy was an amateur and just pretended to be nervous while telling crude jokes – rubbish. Next up was Elvis’ hermaphrodite twin – I kid you not!!! This sounds much better than it was but it was a random man dressed as a woman but wearing a Elvis mask and dancing to a tape of his own voice, at then end he stripped off to another dress and ran around the stage like a loon. Not a single laugh in 5 minutes and every mouth in the place was agasp and aghast. Weird. Last up was a Canadian guy who was pretty funny but most of his act was based on picking on people in the audience – funny but not great. The night was made by the compeer who was brilliant throughout and turns out to be the W.G.Grace chap from the cricket adverts (pic below).

W.G. Grace – Bring it on!!

A very good weekend but I’m shattered this week and I’ve come down with the cold… boo! Gonna try and have a much quieter weekend this time round to recover and prepare for Derek’s stag!

I’m sure everyone else is bored of sailing photos already but Linus has posted some up for your viewing pleasure.

Went out last night for Sian’s birthday – lovely duck pancakes at Tai Pan – only slightly spoiled by my clumsiness – I managed to knock a full glass of red wine across the table – oops!

Added photos from this weekend’s sailing extravagansa, Linus and Chris should be posting photos sometime soon too!

I didn’t witness this happen but I did stumble across it during my lunch break and managed to get a couple of pics on the camera phone which I’ll upload later:
  - BBC News – Three injured in City car chase.

It would appear that some mentalist stole a car and then got pursued by the police, lost control and rammed a bunch of pedestrians and a bus.

I just happened across it while getting some lunch but most bystanders seemed relieved when they heard it was just some joy-rider and not some car-weilding terrorist. I even heard one lady “Oh thank god, I thought it was something serious”. Funny how people’s perceptions have changed recently…

Went for a a joint birthday dinner on Thursday, Jill, Matt and Linus’ shared birthdays were celebrated in style at the Gaucho Grill in Canary Wharf. The best steaks all round as usual. Sian, Sinead, Sigrid, Charlie, Mark joined in the fun too.

Beath and Slade came down at the weekend, we had hoped to see the Gimmes but they cancelled but Beath and Slade came down anyway for a bit of break and a tour of London. Didn’t get to spend as much time with them as I would have liked but they managed to squeeze quite a lot into their trip. Had a quiet night in on Friday watching Napoleon Dynamite (strange but hilarious cult comedy) and on Saturday we headed into Covent Garden to meet up with Phil to help him celebrate his birthday.

Also managed to squeeze in a surprisingly easy MOT for Sian’s car and giving Jill a hand to move her furniture around her carpet fitters.

Matt and I had a bit of an adventure on Sunday, a four hundred and forty mile round trip to Anfield in Liverpool to see Man Utd Vs Liverpool! Left at 7 in the morning and got back at 9.30 at night but it was more than worth it. Big thanks to Matt for scoring the tickets from a mate at work! The game was great despite the fact it was a nil-nil draw and it cost us way more to get there and back than the actual tickets.

See the photos for more (they’re not very exciting)…

Been off ill this week, lots of disgusting green stuff coming out of the wrong places, supposed to have been a very, very busy and important week at work too. Always happens that way I guess, but I know if I’d gone in then all I’d have achieved would be to make everyone else in the team ill. If I can’t summon the energy to get off the couch then I don’t stand much chance of giving my big presentation.

Had hoped to just chill out, get lots of sleep but thanks to the builders in my sleep I’ve been woken everyday at 7.30 with the sound of their stupidly annoying beeping cranes which beeps constantly like an alarm clock for 12 hours until 7PM. ARGH! I think I’d rather be at work!