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Well it's a week since my actual birthday, so no better time than to pull my finger out my arse and tell all you wonderful people what eventful things happened on that momentous weekend, that was my 18th!

Thursday I guess I got my first present, I was promoted to sergeant at cadets, which is good cause I don't have to leave, but its a shame I'm being promoted because of age over my ability. Oh well at least I still have an excuse not to get a proper job!

Friday was really nice, just a quiet pleasant evening, we (being mum, James and Claire) all trundled up to Aunty Margaret's and Uncle Malcolm's to have a Chinese with them and my cousins Pete and Les and there partners Nicki and Kev. Baby Jack was there as well, as he's not quite old enough to cook for himself. As I said it was just a very pleasant evening, the usual family jokes, chat and just a sensible amount of alcohol. Claire stayed over so she could wake me up on my birthday.
I also got my birthday cake from nan, and what a cake! I've never seen so much chocolate in a box!! It was bloody gorgeous, I'm sure there are laws about the amount of calories in one mouthful!!!

So Saturday, the 'Big Day'... It was pretty good, considering my so-called father turned up at 8.00am with my present from him and mum. I'm not going to complain though, it was an awesome digital camera, and I’m quite sure your going to see many, many pictures from it! After a bit of a lye in and getting up a slightly more sensible hour, I went downstairs to open my cards, presents form mum and the 18 Claire had got me! I got loads of cool stuff, including a wierdfish shirt from mum along with DVD's and not forgetting my camera. Claire got me loads of great things and some slightly more interesting. I loved the bottle of MooseHead she got shows how thoughtful she is! She also gave me two great pictures of the pair of us, a lava lamp (how cool is that!), she made me some things like a cushion to go in my room (when its done) and a naughty deed chequebook (should be fun). And of course my two most important presents, the Band of Brothers DVD boxset (drool!) and a car!!!(hehe)

After opening my great gifts we headed of to town to get all the bits for my party. After raiding Tescos and spending near £50 we were on our way back home... following a short spell at home we were of back into town to get an XD card for my camera! After lots of frantic searching we found one in Argos for just over £40. So I spent almost £100 including the cover I brought for my phone that turned out to be wrong. After getting home we had time to start making pizzas for the party and halfway through the first people arrived Andy and Will shortly followed bout everyone else. By 8.30 we had a houseful of people and a fridge full of beer, loud music, jokes, banter, drinking and flirting on all parts... Strange since there were only 3 girls to 9 guys. Everything was going great until a certain incident, but we’ll try not to dwell on that. Emma was so drunk, she ended up soaking my crotch with carling and I ended up liking cake of her fingers... very bizarre!

Everyone woke up early Sunday and I regrettably left Claire in bed. After everyone disappeared I cleaned up, amazingly in quite a short time considering the number of drinks spilt, probably due to the lack of carpets! Claire took me to canoeing and I joined everyone at lunch. It was a good crack, the sun shone, and I didn't have to do much, just show of and rescue Peter Brinkley several times!
Afterward Marc took me back to Walsham so I could see Claire, but I was tired and really i'll so went home and slept from 9 till 11.30 on Monday! It gave me a nice relaxing day at home at least, which I thoroughly needed.

Well there we go, I'll add some pics later...