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Sorry been slack on the updates AGAIN!!!

Have I been a busy boy? Lets see:

• Celebrated a year with Sian with dinner at The Ivy near Covent Garden, think we were a bit overdressed but was nice to dress up for the first time in a while, haven’t had my suit on since the job interviews last year. The food was brilliant, had a haddock tart to start, shepherds pie for main, sticky toffee pudding for desert. The best shepherds pie I’ve ever tasted (sorry mum) but then again it did cost an arm and a leg. A nice treat and very casual but up-market place. Didn’t see any celebs (thank god) but did lots of people watching.
• Went to see Ali, Michael and the newly born Lottie in hospital, she’s HUGE with really long legs! Was great to see them and even better to hear that they’re now home after the mandatory 2 days in hospital. Never seen a baby that young before (2 days) but wow is all I can say – you should have seen the grin on my face when I got to hold her.
• More good news: Doug and Mairi got engaged, haven’t heard the details yet and emailed Doug to find out more but he’s completely un-contactable.
• Even more good news: Derek and Paula got engaged while away in Iceland, again I still haven’t heard the details yet as they’re not back in the UK yet but the celebrations for that will be drunken. Wonder if we can top Bratislava for the stag do?
• Speaking of weddings, been to the Wedding Crashers and also the Fantastic Four movie, both of which were good in places and not so good in others. Wedding crashers is the better of the two. Also finally got to see Pirates of Caribbean, which I’ve been dying to see for ages but found particularly underwhelming, I don’t know which was worse, Johnny Depp’s drunkenness or Keira Knightly’s stupid pouting!
• Expecting a bunch of visitors in the next couple of weeks
  • Beath, Slade and maybe Doug for the Gimmes concert
  • Nick is coming down for a weekend and given that I always seem to be away when he comes to London and he’s always away when I visit Scotland it’ll be good to catch up.
  • Ellen and Dave are down to come with me and Sian to my cousin Rhona’s wedding.

• Had a couple of pub visits, bit of pub crawl with Matt on Saturday to visit all our new locals and then went out to watch the Arsenal-Chelsea game on Sunday with Sian, Matt, Sinead, Jill, Sara and Keira, which ended in the most competitive game of Jenga ever (you had to be there I guess).
• Tim headed off to Nigeria for the foreseeable future and I didn’t manage to meet-up with him before he left, I am a bad friend but hope he’s “reaching for the stars” over there or at least teaching them the words and moves to S Club’s greatest hits.
• Still haven’t got the deposit back for the old flat and they’re avoiding my calls and refusing to return my emails which isn’t good.
• Stu is still doing well in Tokyo, amazingly he seems to have turned up in the Sun though (he’s hiding behind all the short people).
• Rory’s moved… to Doncaster.
• Sian got through her exams with flying colours but her flat purchase in East London fell through so if anyone knows of someone with a room to rent then please let me know, ta!
• Sian also sat next to Eugene from Big Brother on the train the other day, not sure if that counts as news but hey it amused me.