Tuesday 27 June 2006

wot was i doin?!

onest i have no idea wot i was spozed to b doin....im sure it wasnt that important, but meh!

im gettin memory loss a lote the past few days...just to note i went out on the saturday nite too after work an got home at 7am...then i was in work in the afternoon, dear me!

urrr neway....*wanders off*

Sunday 25 June 2006

urrrr.....subject?!

rite well incase anyone was interested i didnt find my health costs form, but i blagged it anyway hehe, i think im gonna have to give in and pay for the checkup anyway...coz they got me to sign some form sayin if i was lying they wud skin me alive...or maybe it was just take me to court, meh!

went climbing on the tuesday instead...it wasnt as good as it shud have been, short climbs and bits of the rock face were coming off in my hands

worked on the uni open day on thursday, was kewl, worked with some sound ppl and most of the visitors seemed pretty friendly...altho some nob 'ed really pee'd me off at the end of the day i think he was a local lad and he walked past us all sittin by the enquiry center n was sayin to his mates "fuckin student, pricks" or sumthin....ohhhh he needed a good kickin!

worked for uni yesterday too, did data entry and played on msn most of the morning ...then i worked at squares all nite, then me, tom, dan and aj went to a few bars an i got in at 5.30 this mornin....good nite!

Monday 19 June 2006

the past week

Got home tuesday nite, didn't do sod all that nite

Wednesday, errrrr, hmmmm, i think i did something!..no...no, it's gone!

Thursday, aha!..now i did do some stuff on thursday!...went to the best man's house thursday nite me, him and the groom had a few bevvies in the pub, then went back to best man's and drank some more an played poker, i had a rite shit few rounds heh

Friday, the big day!
Sister got married, it didn't hit me till i was sitting at the front of the room that it was my big sis actually tying the knot, was a bit weird!
saw some old faces and some people that i had no clue who they were...but meh!...my best mate lloydy came bk from london for the ocassion which was kewl, me an him were sat on a table with my auntie alison an uncle simon, both well funny and with my dad's old amte chris and his missus kate, both of who are well sound, so we had a right good laugh as we had our food.
my dad's speech was actually quite nice, got a bit glassy eyed during it if i'm honest!
Then the night do started....got plastered and stoned!, even shared a joint with the old man...."a truly momentous ocassion" as he said himself heheh
didn't have a penny on me but was pissed as a fart by the time i went home, lloydy came with me, the idea being we wud drink a bit more at mine and watch some dvds, but the silly sod passed out as soon as he sat down in the living room!

Saturday, didn't do much of anything, but i wasn't half as rough as i'd expected i wuld be, so that was good!
was a bit tired but that was about it....monged most of the day away.

Tonite i went to see Hard Candy with toolar an wilko, was a rather odd film, even by my standards!...shud have gone to watch something less intense, i've still got tons of snacks to eat now!

Goin climbing with the old man 2moro mornin hopefully, after i go to the dentists that is...hope i can find my free health care certificate thingy b4 i go, i dont wanna pay for the checkup, thieving bastards!

Tuesday 13 June 2006

the past weekend

Friday i did bugger all from what i recall, apart from in the nite i went for a quick burn about on my bmx lookin for stuff to jump off, i found a wobbly wall where the landing was a 5 foot wide ramp that ran perpendicular to the wall with a metal fence...
So there was no run-up and it was a bit dodgy to mount it, i had no speed coming off the edge and landed badly, foot slipped off the pedal and proceeded to hack my shin open in 4 places!
One of them is pretty deep and gaping but i couldnt be arsed sitting in A&E all nite so i just let nature take its course!
tonite i'm picking bits of the scabs off out of pure boredom

Saturday i was working from 11.30 am, bloody england match was on!...the bar was stupidly full so full we coudlnt even get thru the crowd of people to collect glasses...hence every so often the piles of glasses on the tables would go crashing to the floor...then some fools started lobbin beer everywhere, some bloke bought 2 bottles of stella off me (they cost 3quid each!) purely to pour over everyone....wot a mong!
Anyway the match was pretty damned boring from wot i saw of it, when they had all buggered off we started the clean up, it was a fookin rite state in there!...soooo many smashed glasses an beer all over the place. we got it done though, i had a break from half 5 till 8pm so went back home for a rest.
Saturday nite i walked in at 8 and my mate tom (who is now the asst. manager) tells me i'll be working upstairs bar on my own as there was a private party goin on, it was starting at 8.30 and i still had to set up the entire bar by myself....he then also tells me they are expecting about 80 people there, doh!
Turned out there was only about 30 people in the end and i took till 9pm to get the bar sorted anyhoo!...sat on me arse most of the nite, it was great
finished up at 1am then went to Firebug and sat in the beer garden with me boss an some of the others till about 4am, was kewl, and theres a fit barmaid workin there too!

Did bugger all on sunday that i can recall, apart from watching Welcome to Collinwood, not a bad film, altho the old man in it pissed me off, his voice was so annoying and i expected geroge clooney to be in it more since the parts he was in were pretty funny.

Today i got up early (well 9am is early for me!) and went to the training for working the university open day next week....i wore jeans, it was raining in the morning so it seemed like a good call...it wasnt at all, i cooked!
sat on me arse rest of the day, did have a staff meeting but that got cancelled, thinkin about goin home 2moro morning instead of waiting til wednesday, dont seem much point stayin about and ill have more chance to get some climbing done with me dad

peace and yazoo!

gaz

Friday 9 June 2006

last nite...

had a good laugh last nite, went out for rach and lisa's birthdays.

ended up in mosh, bottles of carlsberg for a quid!..cant go wrong!
It was so cheap i decided to start a beer fight, i got attacked tho and drenched in VK blue and carlsberg, pesky people!
luckily the hand dryers downstairs in mosh are fookin roasting so i dried myself off under one of them
after mosh we decided to climb a crane, so me and dan slid under the fence of this buliding site walked thru to the crane then realised there was a car parked there and an open door over the other side of the yard, so we scarpered!
then we all tried climbing random things on the way home...we failed most of the time hehe

thass bout it for now

peace out!

Sunday 4 June 2006

Cornwall

Right I'm gonna write a big post about all the stuff I can remember doin in Cornwall over the last week, a diary for Rob and any others who wanted to know wot we all got up to

Friday:
Got picked up from my door by Sandy 'P' (Sandeep) at about 11am and got the others from the front of the union and so began the loooong journey to Cornwall.
Met Joe in a service station somewhere and he took over the driving, arrived in a car park (a.k.a. the motorway into Cornwall) where we made friends with a car full of drunken lads...Rachel decided it wud b a good idea to throw water over one of them as he ran to go for a piss on the side of the road, the crazy bint!
Went to the tescos in Penzance to stock up on the essentials (beer!) and headed towards Sennen Cove, it was about 11pm or something by the time we got close to the campsite, it was misty as fook and it took us a bit of doublebacking an stuff till we found the place. Pitched the tents, drank a beer or two and headed to bed.

Saturday:
Woke up and it was rather misty still, bit chilly on the willy. Went to Tescos in Penzance again to get food for the week and then we took Sandy 'P's kite on the beach since there was plenty of wind!
After a few hours we sat about on the beach and Sandy 'P' and Pete decided to dig a hole using the frizbees, James decided it would be a good idea to put his leg in said hole...it wasn't!...We all began to shovel the sand back into the hole around his leg and stamp it down, he couldn't get his leg out and the tide was creeping in slowly!!
James began to get a bit worried at this point and started to hurriedly scoop the sand out by hand...the tide edged closer still!...by now we were all wetting ourselves with laughter, Pete and Sandy took pity and helped get rid of some of the sand as I stood there laughing my rocks off...it was too late! the tide came in and filled drenched James' legs, by now i was crying with laughter and Tom had fallen over he was laughing so much, after another attack by the tide James finally got out of the hole, oh lordy it was funny!
Walked down the beach into Sennen to the pub in the evening, sat about havin a few bevvies then walked back along the beach in the pitch dark, it was...interesting!
Not everyone had a torch and the group kind of scattered, so it was a bit precarious, couldn't see how close the tide had come in and there was rockpools and stuff dotted about so a few of us got a bit wet!...managed to cut my hand open on a rock too, didnt realise I'd done it 'till my fingers started to stick together as we got closer to the campsite then shone a torch onto my hand and realised it was covered in blood!

Sunday:
First day off climbing and the weather had perked up a bit, slightly windy but the sun was blazing.
Went to a crag a few minutes down the coast, had some nice climbs, seconded Laura up a route and started getting a lil bit burnt (I knew I should have got sun tan lotion!)
Caught my finger on the rope when I was abseiling down the cliff face got a nice bit of skin tearing on my middle finger...my left hand wasn't having a good day!, ho hum!
In the night James met some 14yr olds and being a damned youth worker he befriended them, then they wouldn't leave us alone for the rest of the night!
Me, Pete and Laura went for a walk down the lane to get away from them, on the way back Joe was driving down to pick Dan and Ruth up from the train station so we went along for the ride. Got back and the kids had buggered off, went to bed.

Monday:
Today we went to a pretty crappy climbing spot, not only that, but it was the most awkward place to get to!
Shorts were definately not a good idea on this day, walking thru thcikets bushes down a slippy hill towards a cliff face.
Got burnt a little more today too...did a few climbs, Tom set up a nice top rope which got named 'The Puddle of Doom!' because there was a nice big pool of water at the bottom of it which I threatened to try to lower people into when I was belaying them
On the way back up from the crag Me, Tom, Sandeep and Joe decided to try a different route to the top to avoid them pesky thickets...it seemed like a good idea at the time but it turned out to be worse than the original route....thorns and nettles in abundance! I actually had some trousers in my bag but still hadnt put them on, so got a good pasting from the pesky plants!
Got back and I went to watch the sun set down on the beach, it was kewl, then I went for a stroll along the coastla path and climbed up the cliff, ended up getting a bit lost on the way back 'cause I took a weird route back to the tents that took me along some weird paths and into what looked like a cul-de-sak....either way i was gone about an hour and a half wandering around fields, was good!
Drank some beers with the crew then headed to bed.

Tuesday:
A day off from climbing, Joe went off to visit his parents and some of us went into Penzance to go sea fishing to catch mackerel (reputed for being stupidly easy to catch!)
While we waited for some of the others to turn up I went and got myself an ice cream, the woman tossed it up and it was all wonky n stuff an she had put her thumb thru the cone so i got it for nowt!...�1.30 saving, go me!
Got on the boat and me and Pete noticed some lil lad who was clearly shittin himself at the prospect of goin out to sea, oh how we did laugh at him!
Conincidentally it was only me and Pete who managed to catch ZERO fish!...not fair!...even James the veggie caught two!!
It didn't really matter though because the skipper let us take a load for out BBQ anyway On the way back to port the blasted seagulls started hovering about, most of tehm buggered off after a bit but one of them was flyin really low and close to the boat so I gotta fish and hand fed the seagull! ...Of course this opened the flood gates and all the others came back then, the lil buggers!
Bought 4 cheapo disposable BBQs from PoundStretcher (why?!) and went back to tescos to get some extra stuff to plonk on the BBQs then went back to the campsite.
Me, Pete, James and Sandy 'P' gutted the fish then we headed down to the beach...This is why you don't buy disposable BBQs that cost �1.50 each, they had sod all charcoal in them and only lasted about half hour! Still we managed to cook a fair few things and watched the sun go down over the sea then lit a fire and sat about drinkin for a bit.

Wednesday:
Went to a crag on the south coast (i think), had some really good spots for climbing. DID MY FIRST LEAD!!
There was a top rope set up on one of the faces which would prove to b a right bastard of a climb, depending on how you approached it, the left side was piss easy but the right hand side was solid!
Of course I tried the right hand side, had a bit of an over hang, the worst thing about it though was this weird dry green stuff all over the rock, as soon as you grabbed onto something or the rope moved you'd get caked in this stuff!
I got halfway up, scratched both me knees to bits in the process, there was sod all to hold onto up there so I just gave up...Tom manged to get up it after 3 or 4 attempts, nobody else bothered trying that route though hehe.
Can't remember what we did in the nigth but it probably involved drinking beer!

Thursday:
Another day of from climbing...
A load of us walked down the coast a few miles to Lands End, then walked back to our beach an played in the sea fora bit, it was bloody FREEZING!...My meat an 2 veg almost dissappeared into my body! Layed on the warm rocks to try an get warm, just sat about on the beach most of the day chillin.
Walked down to Sennen again to the pub and had a meal with Dan, Ruth, Laura, Sandeep, Rachel, Tom and Cathy. Took a bit more of a sensible route along the coastal path back to our beach on the way back. Met the others on the beach as they were cookin the remainder of the mackerel on a fire, sat about lookin at the stars an stuff then went back to the tents and slept.

Friday:
Went back to the first place we climbed today. Did another lead and a scary second with Tom. It was a bloody crazy route, had to climb down into this crack to get a pice of gear Tom had laid in it, it was wedged in because he'd took a few falls on it, it was pretty hairy to say the least! Seconded Laura up a climb, that was a bit of a dodgy climb too!
Went to St Ives on a night out, was ok, had live bands in all the bars we went to and in the "club" we went to...the clib was well funny, it was tiny for a start but they frisked us all and searched bags as we went in...a bit overkill if you ask me!
Got hammered, did some silly dancing and fell asleep on the minibus back

Saturday:
Had to get up early, which sucked major arse!
Left the campsite at about 11am and so began the looong drive back to Leics!
Got in another traffic jam
Took a de-tour to Taunton to drop Joe off at his new house, was gettin cooked alive by the sun!
Got back into Leics late...after 8.30pm I rekon, decided we would all meet up at the festival thingy that was happening at Bede Park, it was closed by the time we all made it over there after unpacking etc. so we sat on a bench like pikeys drinkin booze, walked Laura back to her place an sat on me arse listening to Guns n Roses while she packed stuff up to go home for the month. Walked back to mine with a quick stop off at Mario's for some chips n cheese

And that's it!

Peace