27 - 29 October

Went back to Bristol for the weekend and took Emilie along for the ride. On Friday (after a beautiful leek soup from Rhi, and helped by the less than beautiful Carling at the Academy) we went to Ramshackle and danced like crazy people. The day after that we enjoyed ourselves immensely by waiting approximately seventeen hours for a fry-up.

Saturday evening we first went to Bea's for preliminary drinking and final adjustments to our costumes for Tim's Robot Party (and as usual all other costumes were eclipsed by Bea's (i'm not saying she's a fatty - she makes incredibly good costumes)). Main choice of robot fuel was Snakebite Black, but I discovered that to mix this with Rum and Coke makes for a malfunctioning robot. System Error - Abort, Retry or Fail? All of the above.

Check it out for yamselves

12 October

This was a truuuly excellent day, as many have been over the past few weeks. I haven't been out a huge amount: just one club (The Fez) and a bunch of pubs (The Turks being the best so far); been out for a really nice meal with my brother, at which we met each other's girlfriends for the first time; been to see the Guillemots (who were pants); saw a crazy band whose lead singer was trying a little too hard to be Johnny Depp in Carrots of the Pirabbean (but had an amazing drummer); had a BBQ with my house and a few other stragglers; played Monopoly and several games of Cranium (still have yet to play Tony Blair); and have been trying to learn the piano; mostly though, I have been spending my time with Emilie (my aforementioned girlfriend), and it has been rather good indeed.