Doing stupid things...

I seem to have a habit of doing stupid things whilst drunk, staying in a hotel room. A couple of years ago Jen sent me out for some Pringles, shouting out our room number and holding the same number in my hand. I returned 45 minutes later having lost the number, forgotten it, knocked on somebody else’s room, ended up in the cellar twice and pressing the ground floor number on the lift, confused as to why it wasn’t going anywhere whilst the only other guest told me, apologetically, that we were on the ground floor. This weekend’s foray into the world of drunkenness in a hotel was no exception.

All was going fine until 3 in the morning when what sounded like Jen’s mobile phone went off. I reacted by trying to get back to sleep whilst Jen leapt out of bed and started wafting the smoke detector with her pillow. Of course it was the fire alarm but I refused to get out of bed, still convinced it was Jen’s phone. At this point Jen must have realised that wafting a smoke alarm when there is, in fact, no fire wasn’t going to make it shut up, she tried to get me out of bed. I stubbornly refused sending Jen into a blind panic that I was going to die in the towering inferno. Now, either I was just being stubborn or I’d regained some semblance of sobriety but I put it down to a false alarm caused by a stag party, making me all the more determined to stay in bed. Fortunately the alarm stopped before any of Jen’s mates came to get me out of bed (Jen alerted them all that I would not budge) before causing myself any more embarrassment.

That aside it was a very good weekend, Mark seemed to enjoy his 30th and our planned trip to Cyprus in the summer has gained some momentum. If only that little arsehole Bradley Wright Phillips hadn’t ruined it at about 4.42pm on Saturday (along with Hull and Leicester scoring in the last minute to bring League One within touching distance) it would have been even better. I should be used to it by now…

"Life On Mars" Gene Hunt quote of the day...

I'm Gene Hunt, I should be breaking down doors not picking girly locks."

Another top weekend

All in all a very good weekend thank you very much. Got my Honeymoon reading sorted out (“Swag”, “The Switch”, “52 Pick Up” and “The Hunted” by the ever reliable Elmore Leonard) and then met my dad for a good few pints. My sister and Lyn were both there as well and it was a wonderfully relaxing 4 hours in the beer garden of The Tap and Spile. It was made even more fun when Matt called and told me Leeds had beaten Burnley 1-0, leaving us still in the drop zone but only on goal difference – I live in hope.

Amy invited her round her place for a few birthday drinks that turned into a lot of birthday drinks and resulted in a very silly and completely unnecessary trip to Flares. £4.00 to get in and we could only stand it for one pint so it turned out to be a very expensive pint. I must say all Amy’s friends seemed very nice and I enjoyed the evening.

Woke up with a bit of a sore head but a fry-up from my mum sorted that out, a few hours spent with my Gran who told me all about my Norwegian heritage (my family originally came from a place in Norway called Hell) and then went home via a brief stop off to see my dad once more. No piccies I’m afraid, Jen took the camera to her hen weekend and it sounds like she had a good time. Of course she came home with the usual array of plastic knobs, gadgets that are suspiciously willy-shaped and a cake that was breast shaped but it wouldn’t be a hen weekend without it. Why is it that stag weekend’s are more notorious again?

All this was topped off with a fine 5-1 win for the Magic All Stars on Monday evening, yours truly bagging two and setting up the other three (I’m top scorer now with 6, a goal a game, not that I’m blowing my own trumpet or anything) to put us within three points of that coveted third spot with four games left to play. We can do it!!!

Very relaxing weekend

It's been a while since I had a good bank holiday weekend because of my work involving football but, with the exception of Friday morning, I've had the whole weekend off. It's been very relaxing spending time with Jen and to top it all off, the weather's been very good too.

We decided to take advantage of the unusually good Bank Holiday weather and took a walk around the Ladybower Reservoir, just at the foot of the Snake Pass. It was so relaxing it was untrue, plenty of people around taking their dogs for a walk, off for a major ramble or cycling. The one thing that never ceases to amaze me when you take a walk in the countryside is that everybody you meet on the way says hello to you. Must be because everybody who's there is there for the same reason you are, to enjoy the scenery. Just one scary moment, when we heard a sound that could only be described as Prehystoric, just moments after seeing a giant bird land somewhere in the trees to the left of us. It ended up being a really scary Heron!

We spent the rest of Saturday in the garden, listening to Leeds climb out of the relegation zone with a hard fought win over Plymouth (unbeaten in 5 games, back to back wins for the first time this season, the second game running we've come from behind to win...I'm expecting to wake up any time soon). When it got too cold we embarked on a Sky Movies marathon including "Zathura" (follow up to "Jumanji" - crap), "Half Light" (supernatural thriller starring Demi Moore - average) and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (best of the lot so far).

Sunday we took another walk across the Rivelin Valley, it's just over the road from our house but we decided to walk a little further than usual. We normally just do the mile and a half to the Admiral Rodney but without the hard cash for a pint decided to trek a mile further to see what was there. The answer was more wonderful countryside and another relaxing walk with more gorgeous sunshine. We were a bit knackered after that so spent most of the rest of the day indoors catching up on a bit of TV and sorting out more wedding stuff. I think we're nearly there.

Today we're just heading over to the future in-laws to have roast beef and Yorkshire pud, hopefully rounding off a fine weekend with another Leeds win!

"Life on Mars" Gene Hunt Quote Of The Day...

"He's got more fingers in pies than a leper on a cookery course"