After another hellish motorway journey, here I am back in blog land for a quick hello before food and bed.
For some reason I seem to have a headache, but can't imagine why.
It was great to see Paddy and Brads for the first time. They are a fantastic couple and very very nice people.
Got to Birmingham and located the hotel. Walked up the cannals at one point skipping over that most rare of sites, The legendary white Dog Turd, and found the bar. Them found Abi. Then walked right by Abi as her hair has got longer and she had some very blue contacts in. Found Abi again. Started drinking. Paddy and Brad turned up, then Juzzy and Row the boat then Virgin blog then we all drunk some more.
Some of paddys "real world" friends turned up, said Hi, then sat at another table as there was not much room around ours. Found out later that they thought we had all met on the internet via a swingers site and wanted to give us some space! We should have all got our keys out and thrown them into the middle of the table just to freak them out. Christ knows what they thought we were up to when various groupings of us popped outside for a cigarette!
Then on to a club called Snobs, which I decided should have stood for "Should Not Order Bottled Spirits" due to the watering down of said liquids, and due to the young nature of most of the outher punters, I felt like a baby sitter. You could see them looking at me and Shipscook and thinking either "Drug squad" or "Blimey someones dads have come to get them"
Oh well we had fun.
Dancing was done (NOT by me no matter how many times Row pointed her cleavage at me and Mrs F threatened me) Drinks where bought and paddy and brads danced and sung like young lovers.
More drinks were had, photos were taken (I know who the blogger is that Abi kissed but as she got tounge back she seemed to be a bit suprised) and silly games where played. Most amusing.
Saturday saw hangovers thankfully leaving off, another walk down the canal to meet up for lunch and Paddy presenting me with a little plastic pirate hat, plastic flintlock pistol with realistic firing sound and a plastic eye patch. Love that man!
Met up with the wonderous Sixpence and Morelearning (and yes, Sixpences cleavage can now be seen from space! Check google earth!) and Sketchweasel showed up (hurrah) and yes, I did notice your tattoo. Well I'm a bloke and my eyes where open!
And why was Row shaking so much? Hmmmmm?
Me? I was as sober as a judge.
That night we went to see a load of people and kids dancing around on a stage (well it was for a good cause) and paddy and brads star turns.
It was fucking hillarious! Especially "Summer Lovin" from grease with all the girls dressed as the boys and paddy and brad and some other "chaps" dressed as the girls. God I hope someone got it on video.
So, That is a very quick rundown of the weekend. I had the only camera that was not in a phone, so I have all the piccies. But you will have to wait till tomorrow night as I cannot load them up here.
That should give you time to get the money in.
Now off to do some malicious tagging!
(by the way - I behaved impecably all weekend. I did not go into a late night food place and say loudly "Help me out here fella, I have no idea what any of this shit is!")
It was a pleasure to meet you all.
