Give me heart and give me soul...

Well I’ve been asked to blog, so here we go...

I finished my last exam around 11.30 yesterday, finally signaling the end of my A levels and time at Thurston. To celebrate, me Olly and Claire went for a meal at the Norton Dog. Not before saving Lauren's arse from the rampage of her dad by jumping her car, because the muppet left her lights on during the morning exams. So after earning some 'man points' we made our way for a fantastic meal at the Dog. The rest of the afternoon was just left for relaxing, watching a film and not too much else. In the evening I made my way to cadets for the first time in about 2 months, thankfully it was a lazy night, staff versus cadets cricket match and BBQ. We headed down the pub after only for one however. After my exam I was up for getting very very drunk, but when it came to it I just couldn't be arsed. I'm going to have to have a decent party to celebrate get drunk and just play around like we normally do :-)

Today has been great, even though I was working my arse of for about 9 hours and with my dad here all day. It was nice to be able to work with my hands and not my mind for a change, to be outside being active and not cooped up in my room revising. I'm becoming quite the D.I.Y'er, as I said to my mum, 'If university falls through I can always go into building!'

Like pictures you stole...

It appears to be a day for bizarre and ridiculous news stories. I've not seen the news on TV or heard it on the radio but so far have come across two stories that should be read and then sniggered at. The first was an article on UCAS turning digital, you can't believe the idiocy of some. Read here. The second article, also from the BBC news website made me laugh for a different reason. Last night there was a 300 strong riot in a small town in North Wales. Funny one because what would cause a riot in Wales?! And secondly its the same town in which my grandparents live so I know it well. The last place you would expect a violent uprising. Read Here.

Anyway back to revising...


N.B - 27/6/2006

Here's a slightly more detailed report about the Welsh 'Riot', apparently it was a gang clash! In Wales? The story just becomes evermore unbelievable. They must get so bored in Wales. Read Here.

Hey, This is it...

This post is calling out for the sympathy vote. The sun is shining the weather is fantastic and has been for the past few weeks, but somehow, for some inconsiderable reason I have picked up some sort of virus! I feel terrible, my head is all 'bunged' up and dull. My throat is on fire, and because of this I barely slept last night so I'm shattered now. I'm guessing its the exam stress and the extra brain activity lately that has lead my immune system to falter.
Well my last two exams are Monday, and everything will be right again. Just 1 hour and 50 minutes then my summer will officially begin and I can get drunk every night, stay awake till the early hours and wake up in the afternoon. Bring it on, bring on unadulterated dossing, time wasting and total relaxation!

Run past the heather and down to the old road...

"Oh" Was the only word I used as we headed of the road across the grass and into the barley field. "Erm... sorry guys, my fault." It was amazing how smooth the transition from tarmac to grass to field was, and not even a scratch. The inside of the car faired slightly worse but well before we were anywhere near the field, thanks to Marc and an inability to keep his hand to himself.

SHOTGUN RULES:

Amendment IV: Eviction
If the vehicle is forced to stop for a serious infraction of the Shotgunner, the Shotgunner must relinquish his/her seat, if the driver so wishes. Serious infractions have been known to include spilling alcoholic beverages, spilling any beverage, being annoying, breaking parts of the car, and in extreme cases, just being ugly.

After getting home the evening was good, even if a bit drowsy. We had a couple of drinks each, stuck a film on and 50% of us (Marc and Claire) were asleep within 10 minutes.

Before its time to choose...

We went to the beach Friday for Sarah's birthday. Its was a great afternoon, with enough drinking, swimming and female nudity to keep me entertained :-)
There are plenty more beach parties to come this summer I think.

Here's some pictures:

The wait...

Kat leave your breasts alone, that's for later!

He is always eating, Spoon dressed for the occasion,
Joel dressed for...?

"Argh the sun!" "Ew my beer!"

Smile! You as well Elliot!

"I don't like it! I don't like it!..."

"Kiss me!?" "Touch me!?" "Dom! Behind you, shes got her top of!"

Mmm... dripping...!

"Is it the right way up??"

Fill my little world right up...

I have to apologies for the lack of blogging. I still need to finish of the Embarce weekend post and I need to tell you how great the beach was on Friday and upload many pictures. At the moment however revising is taking total precedence.
I'll update as soon as I can.
Look at my pictures or something if your bored --------------------->

The stars exploded, Man you should have seen it... cont.

...Here's the long over due write up of the Embrace gig.

Claire arrived at mine just as I was about to leave, so she followed me to the deep, dark depths of Suffolk, to the little know village of Thelneatham. We met JJ, Marc and Iain and after sorting out the evenings food we all piled into Claire's car (minus JJ) and the 4 of us were on our way to High Lodge with Jimmy Eat World blaring from the speakers. JJ had to go to Bury and pick up Emma who inconsiderably was working until 6.00. After leaving the car in the gorilla, we made our way to the main area and found ourselves a picnic spot. Not before having a slight 'dip' issue. After opening up the various rucksacks, and cool bags we seemed to have packed ourselves a pretty robust picnic, shown by the jealous eyes peering from neighbouring rugs. JJ and Emma turned up about half an hour later, but the warm welcome ended quickly once we discovered Emma hadn't brought the cakes that we had entrusted her with supplying. Fortunately there was plenty of wine to be drunk and food to be eaten so her failing was quickly forgotten. The first band came on, but for the life of me I can't remember who they were. However they were very good, surprisingly good. After enjoying the amazing evening sun and getting trough some more food and wine Morning Runner were up. They were as good as I'd hoped, just a shame that the lead singer speaks like a twelve year old and looks like Lee Graham. (Does any one remember him?) By the time they had finished and Embrace had come on me and Marc had drunk about a bottle and a half of wine each, so we were thoroughly enjoying ourselves. The dancing and jumping increased as Embrace 'classics' played and after another bottle between me and Marc we off to the front to really get into the spirit, closely followed by Emma and JJ, thankfully really because I

dropped my camera in my drunken state and miraculously JJ found it just before some fat bastards size nine rendered it fucked! After the gig as we staggered back to the car parked we I think literally fell into Alex, Jenny and Lois.

We were very surprised to see them and I don't really think Alex wanted to publicise the fact that he knew us, well Marc anyway. JJ took Emma and Iain back while Claire was lumbered with me and Marc, during the evening we had drunk 3 litres of wine between us, just to give you a feel for the car ride home, it was lots of shouting and 'oi oing' and avoiding getting punched by butch boyfriends.

After getting back to JJ's, Iain disappeared home and the rest of us settled down with a stubby to watch the film, but everyone was unconscious pretty quickly. I was woken up in the morning by Claire as she darted out of bed and out of the door after she realised what the time was.

Eventually crawling out of bed, I was woken up by a cup of coffee, and sitting in the garden enjoyed pancakes and pineapple juice.

A great weekend!

I don't care for sound...

I want to curl up and die! I've spent at least 6 hours today trying to get my head around physics paper 4. I just sat a past paper and after marking it I came out with another big fat U! Whats made it worse is I spoke to the guys at Thorpe today who really needed me to work this week but I had to say 'no I have to revise'. Whats the fucking point I might as well have worked, my grade won't change!

The stars exploded, Man you should have seen it...

It’s Sunday and as promised I’m going to tell you about the fantastic weekend I’ve just had. I’ll start Friday afternoon, the weather was fantastic and after a lot of doing nothing I decided to take the dog out, I gave Em a call just to see if she fancied the walk and amazingly she answered her mobile and almost as bizarre as that she said she yes! What’s the world coming too! So after wiping up the mess the dog made (Christ know how she managed it) I was on the road in the gorgeous sun to hook up with Emma somewhere on a foot path that neither of us really understood where it went. Luckily Using our navigational expertise we had both managed to meet up. After some food and small water fight we decided to go down to the river. In my 18 years of living here I had never walked all the way down this footpath and was amazed at this little bridge over the river. Lily’s one side and clear cool flowing water the other, oak trees creating a gorgeous shade with the peace only broken by the dog jumping in and out of the water. After about an hour of lying in the sun it was decided we should go our separate ways and do something productive with the rest of the day, and treat my 'horrific' sunburn.

Later in the afternoon Claire turned up after doing what ever she had been doing so that we could buy the food and anything else we needed for the gig Saturday. Once the daft foreign cow at the checkout was happy with looking at all of the pictures me and Claire had on our various ID cards we were out of Tesco’s and on our way back to mine. After shoving the food into appropriately shaped holes in the fridge we were on our way to Walsham, with Em to meet Marc. Claire had to go ringing so marc took us the rest of the way to Stow. Fridays are great because the wall was empty, and once JJ arrived we had even numbers (again). We finished about 9.30 and were home in less than 15 minutes after doing a 120 down the A14. Claire arrived at mine after she finished ringing and found me and Emma sat at the dining room table drinking coffee while marc was half way through his first pint. After JJ turned up and I put wax 'everywhere!' We all cracked open a beer and moved upstairs. The plan had been to watch the 6th sense but after half an hour and a universal lack of concentration we reverted to loud music cards and drinking. Sleep was attained eventually at about 4.00am after Emma passed out from exhaustion and fell out of the bed reeking havoc and destruction to glassware and chips!

The morning was a very slow one, JJ and Emma left before 8.00 and Marc was gone before 9.00 give me and Claire a chance to catch a few more zees. Claire eventually left about midday leaving me with a chance to do yet again, nothing! (noticing a pattern here?) After several trips out in the car, probably over the limit, I packed up the food for the coming evening...

Find the feeling...

The weathers fantastic at the moment isn't it!? Shame that they make us sit exams and revise through it all! Being England and a world full of bread landing butter side down, the day I have my last exam will be the start of Britain’s first monsoon. (due to all this global warming malarkey)
Well anyway, yesterday I took full advantage of the good weather and rewarded myself for sitting through my first exam paper. Claire was in school sorting out her textiles exhibition and the way things were going I had to sit around for about two hours while she got herself sorted. It wasn't much of a waste though, I carried on with some revision and finally caught up with the elusive Mr Saggers. After shooting over to Claire’s grandparents and running over their lawn with the mower we were on our way to Thetford forest for a picnic in the trees. It was really nice, just pulled up in a quiet lay by and walled into the trees plonked ourselves down amongst the twigs and leaves and tucked in. Claire ingeniously brought strawberries which went down very well in the hot summer sun, just a shame there was not Champaign, oh well can't quite have everything.
Today’s been a slow one, Claire slept over after climbing last night. We both woke up late after not leaving the bar till gone kicking-out time. It's amazing how much a group of friends can talk, the random tangents and topics, but always talking and joking. Well back to today, I can't really think of anything particularly constructive I did, I tidied my room, taking about 2 hours to do a 30 minute job, and I think that’s about it. I sat in the garden for about an hour pretending to revise before I left for cadets, which was a shambles and waste of time but hey I’m not going back till the 26th!!
I should catch some Zee’s really, I’m shattered from doing nothing and I’ve got a fairly alcohol weekend starting tomorrow night! I’ll let you know how everything goes on Sunday if I’m not too hung-over!

What it all comes down to...

Its ten minutes past midnight so sadly no longer the 6th of the 6th 2006. (06.06.06) Today has be relatively productive; relative to a poke in the eye with a blunt stick I here the jokers of you cry, but no. I have revised properly for at least part of the day, leaving me with a small but positive feeling about tomorrow’s exam. I've also, and if your reading this I hope you noticed, been playing with my blogs appearance. Even if I say it myself I like my new title, the picture and coding all cut and cropped by myself. *beam*.

Spell it out for me...

Well today is quite a positive one, well so far anyway. I'm just having a revision break right now, while eating the leftovers from the chinese from last night, like a real student! I went for a run this morning, for the first time in what must be coming up to a year. It felt good even though my legs appeared to fill with lactic acid within about 20 seconds I think I'll do it every morning now and get some early nights. They say rest and exercise helps the mind. Lets put it to the test. I've got nothing to lose. Right back on with revision.

You're working now - forced to the race...

It’s happened again... I have this very large inability to revise. I was up, fed, showered and clothed by 10.00 this morning. I set my printer to work preparing about 500 pages of past papers and that’s about as far as my revision got today. My Uncle and Sue (not aunt even though they are married) stayed here last night so I spent a good hour chatting to them while sitting in the garden about my 'troubled' brother and my future (ironically). They left for home and I returned upstairs to refill my printer with a further 250 pieces of paper to finish the enormous task it appears I had set it. After some 'pottering', that is now the slang term for putting of my education, I decided that the sun was too nice to waste and I headed out with the dog, not before grabbing a copy of Chemistry 1 to read on the way. And I read it, a whole chapter on buffers and pH's. Amazing! I got in printed the last couple of pages and made myself some lunch. Sat on my bed and not done much else, I’ve eaten nearly a whole packet of chocolate digestives though and I must be a fair way through the 7 albums of The Leverllers I set in my play list at 10 this morning. Does any of that count towards an A level?

Shit out! right I’m going to make a coffee and continue making notes.

Victim of opportunity...

I've just read Kiwi Queens latest post and I think I'll do one on a similar theme. Today certainly is a glorious sunny day, a day that makes you feel happy, energetic and motivated. Unfortunately I just want to be outside today, not stuck in, revising. So far this half term I have done a total of NO revision, most days I've sat my books on my bed with very good intention, but just not got round to opening them. I've got reams of excuses to explain my failure, some are justified I think?

We went climbing again last night, to make up for the wasted trip Tuesday, which in the end wasn't a total failure with a trip to Lidl, hand break turns and a 'life the universe and everything in between' chat with Emma and her dad.
So anyway; Claire, after I cooked her dinner, drove me to her house, picking Emma up on the way. We met JJ there and after calling in at Marc's were on our way to Stow. Thankfully the wall was open this time and fairly empty which was a bonus. For a change there was an even number of us so we all got a good climb in. We hit the bar after about 3 hours on the wall, but sadly that was the only drink for the night, because we couldn't persuade Em to stay out with us guys for a 'proper' drink. Oh well, we'll make up for it on another night.

Feel my head explode from a night of gin, Another night out late...

Well last night was the year 13 Leavers party, and what a send of!! It was a great night, everyone was well lubricated with alcohol so obscenities, stumbling, randomness and lesbian action was rife! Claire got of with soo many girls, even Sadie, how unfair! I only got Barney! The music, food and company was all great and really made for a superb night out! I'm gonna miss all you guys!


All the pictures I took at the party are on view on my MSNspace (which I hate) but if anyone wants any originals of the pictures send me an email or poke me with a stick and I'll send them to you. Leavers Party Pictures

Click here for Scotts pictures of the Leavers Party