Two news stories have ocme out this week about where i am/will be living. My internship in Kirsty Williams' office comes to an end today, but yesterday we found out that people in the county of Powys, where Brecon is located, has been found to be the happiest place in all of the UK :)

The top 5 places, that are happiest in the UK are

1. Powys
2. Manchester
3. West Lothian
4. Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and Monklands
5. Macclesfield

Whilst the bottom 5 places are

1. Edinburgh
2. Cynon Valley and Rhondda
3. Amber Valley and north east Derbyshire
4. Clydesdale; Cumnock and Doon Valley; Kyle and Carrick
5. Swansea

So as my internship is coming to an end, i will be returning home to Barnsley, where it has been announced today that it is one of the towns with the highest levels of people who are clincially obese



Currently 10.8% of the people in Barnsley are obese, the same as in Wrexham, the full list can be seen below;

Shetland - 15.5%
Torfaen - 13.9%
Blaenau Gwent - 12.5%
Neath - 11.9%
Caerphilly - 11.1%
Rhondda - 11.1
Barnsley - 10.8%
Wrexham - 10.8%

So 5 places in Wales, are in the top 6 and yet despite this people in Powys are the happiest in the country

so, I’ve been in Barnsley for the last week or so, as last week it was my mothers 50th birthday :)

I came back on Monday, on the train, which took longer than normal as there are, or at that point were, no trains between Lincoln and Sheffield (due to a problem with the track at Kiviton, caused by the floods). So i got the train to don caster, and then on to meadowhall, which actually turned out to be quicker than it usually is. got picked up from the station, by my mum and my brother David, and then headed off to see my niece Katie. She's nearly one now, her birthday is at the end of august, but more about her later

Tuesday, was my mum's birthday. Me and my 2 brothers clubbed together to buy my mum a diamond necklace. For the day itself we (Me, my mum and David) went out to wetherspoons, in the town center where we met up with Gaynor, Katie and Bex, and slowly but surely made our way through the wetherspoons coupon book. Me and my brother had the 2 steaks + a bottle of wine deal, which cost £14.99 :) We stayed there for most of the afternoon, although we did move form upstairs to downstairs for some unknown reason. Didn’t do to much when i got home, as i was shattered, and ended up going to bed around 10

Wednesday, we (Me and my mum) were meant to be going out with Katie, Gaynor and Bex, but Gaynor was feeling a little under the weather (she blamed it on the wine) so Katie and Bex came round to my parents house for a bit, while Gaynor recovered

On Thursday, we went to Cannon Hall. Now for those who don’t know Cannon Hall is a country house museum set in 70 acres of historic parkland, and is about 10-15 mins from junction 37 of the M1, which is near where we live.

 

One of the great things they have there is the farm where you can go around and feed and stroke the animals. We first had lunch on the grounds, before going into the park. Going round the farm was pretty funny as Katie is beginning to talk, she can say daddy and a few other words, and whilst at the farm she was almost saying "What’s That" :)

After we went round and stroked all the animals, we went down in to the house it self, for a bit of a look around, and then headed down to feed the ducks.

Friday, my mum had a BBQ in the evening to celbrate her B'day, which she is going to celebrate until september. And at the weekend, i did bugger all, just layed aroud the house, and went to vist my grandparents

this weekend ive spent at home in Barnsley with my family. It was my niece's christening on sunday so we all came together for the weekend. 

cant really remeber what i did during the day on thursday, i was probably lying around the house, watching tv. randmonly went to debenhams in the evening with natasha and emily, before going to the pub with natasha.

i woke up early on friday, before 9, got washed and dressed and packed before heading into the city centre to do a few jobs, get my train tickets and buy some lunch. headed home, checked i had everything then headed to the train station. it takes about an hour and twenty minuets to get to sheffield, and after a 10 min wait in the station Meadowhall is only a few mins away. my dad picked me up from the station there, after having a meeting in sheffield an we headed home. My brother was comming to barnsley on saturday, so in the evening it was just the 4 of us, me and my parents as well as my gran who had been staying with my parents for the last week. Have i got news for you was good this week, Chris Tarrent being one of the better guest hosts they've had over the last few weeks, esp as he was willing and able to make fun of himself, as well as everyone else.

woke up quite early on saturday, and again didnt really do much throughout the day. David (my borther) and Sarah (his friend) arrived a little brefore 12 and together we all watched the incredibly boring FA cup final, as well as all the build up towards it. my mum brought katie around for an hour or so during the match, it was amazing to see how much she'd changed in the few weeks since id seen her last (at easter). we spent the evening catching up before having an early night.

we needed to leave the house by 9.50am on sunday, so on saturday we worked out shower slots (i know it sounds silly, but with 6 of us needing to be ready at the same time, with only one shower in the house; a little bit of planning was needed). as it turns out we were all ready by 9.30. the church is in a couple of villages away from where we live in barnsley, but it only takes about 10-15 mins to get there. we were pretty much the first people there, form out family at least, apart form my grand parents, Uncle Chris and my cousin Sarah and her husband Gareth. the service started at 10.30, and james arrived with gaynor, rebbecca and katie by 10.20 ish. the service lasted about an hour, and after taking a few photos in the church we headed over to the recpetion in barnsley

the reception ended after 5, by which point most people had left anyway. my mum had taken katie back to out house, so that Gaynor could have a night out without having to worry about taking care of katie. so slowly a few we headed up into barnsley town centre, to wetherspoons.  me, david and sarah played on the itbox for a little bit, won a few £s on deal or no deal and stayed for a bit of food before heading over to another pub in barnsley where the others were.
we stayed out till 11.30, by which point both James and Gaynor were very drunk, and wed made our way to funnygals, and randomly watched a cher tribute act that had been on stars in their eyes. 

i was surprised on monday that when i woke up i didn't feel to hungover, despite drinking quite a bit throughout sunday. woke up just after 8, by the sounds of katie screaming :) my dad was taking gran back to brecon, and left a little after 9. i got lift from sarah and david, who took me down to meadowhall, before gonig to chester. satyed in meadowhall for a bit, had mcdonalds, before heading into sheffield to get the train back to lincoln.

so im in lincoln now, getting ready to start back at uni next week - i have a couple of hours on wednesday, but that's mostly induction stuff. So last week;

well did nothing for most of the week, trying to put off packing. on thursday went out to lunch with helen, vicky, griff,Dan, and chaz at LLoyds. it was pretty empty, when we got there, and food was delivered very quickly so i was very imppressed. we drank quite a bit, i had a glass of wine, a blue wkd, then split a bottle of rose with vicky. we sat and chatted a while, until it was only me and helen left in lloyds, as the others went back to college. we watched it chuck it down outside, and sat and listened to my mp3 player for a while. we left the pub around 5.30, and headed down to the bus station. helen got her bus home, while waited and waited for the 14 to turn up, gave up eventually and got the 24 to dodworth.

Friday
spent the day packing my stuff up steadily. packed up my computer in the evening while watching the charlotte church show, then packed the last of my stuff up during jonathon ross's show, before going to bed.

saturday
we left the house just before 9.30, and i was shattered, i suppose thats what i get for not being up before 10 for 4 mounths. we got to lincoln around 10.45, i heard Rupert evert say Fuck on the radio twice, which was kinda of funny - didnt really realise that he swore till the 2nd time. we got to the house, checked a few things out, my parents gave Julian the first check and we began to unpack the cars.

For the next few weeks i'll b staying in the living room, as they ahvent finished building my room yet, although they have put the staircase up to it :)so the house, well its better than i though it would be, weve got a brand new kitchen, with a massive fridge freezer, new bathroom, with shower and bath - although at the moment theres a problem with the boiler so the water doesnt heat up that much :(

so my parents took my out for lunch :), then up to morrisons so we could get some food and essentials in. we got back to the house, finsiehd unpacking, then pmy parents headed back home. i started to unpack & sprt out my stuff - did the important things first got the tele plugged in, then freeview and finally the ps2. slowly sorted out my stuff over the next few hours, had a sandwhich for tea, and once Julian, Babarra and Lucy left, got changed into my PJ's and climbed into bed. Watched parkinson, with elton john, as well as Matt Lucas and David Walliams on it, then went to bed.

Sunday
cant rember when i woke up, although do remember being woken up by Katie when she got back from her night out.got up, eventually got dressed, and slowly but surly finished unpacking, had some lunch then wondered down to the city centre, so i could get some paracetemol from boots.had another lazy evening, had stew and mashed potatoes for my tea, then eventually curled up into bed to & wathced spooks.

Monday
well woke up at 8.10 this morning feeling good, better than i have for the last few days. listened to the radio for a bit, before going for a shower. played on the ps2 for a bit before heading off into the city centre to do a few bits and bobs.

So at the weekend i recovered from friday night, and spent most of sunday watching the all star cup on itv. on monday went to see my grandparent in the afternoon.

tuesday did nothing at all, i think...yup nothing at all

So wednesday morning - long before i was up my neice - Katie louise was born :P !!!!!!!!! she was born at 7.04 am, weighing 6pounds ish (not 100% sure but probably + or - a pound or 2) so we went to see her on wednesday night for 40 mins or so, before you all ask yes there is a pic of me with her. we left there at 7.15 ish to let gaynor get some rest, came home so i could pick up a coat, then my dad took me into town so i could meet Helen.

Wednesday night - went out with helen, to celebrate the birth of Katie. went to assembly first - £1.50 for a bottle of WKD, then on to Yates where i had doubl vodka red bull, into lloyds where i had a couple of bottles - 1 i bought then 1 helen bought. after there we went to livingstones where i had another bottle, before we went back to lloyds for cocktails - got 2 pitchers 1 was mai tai, the other was Woo Woo - between the 5 of for £12. after there went to funny girls. Say my brother in there, almost gave me a heartattack, as he gave me money. didnt win in the free cocktail again :( although i think i did better than on friday night :) we left there just after 1, went to the kebab shop and garlic bread with cheese, ate it outside then headed back to helens where we chatted for a bit.

Thursday finally stopped trying to sleep around 12, when Julia came down. we chatted about pen gramm for a bit, before jules put on the tele and we watched random crap for a bit before watching my sweet sixteen for some reason. my dad picked me up just after4, got home around 4.20 and didnt do much for the rest of the evening, as i was shattered.

Today - erm pretty much did nothin. woke up around 10.30, watched thunderbirds, did my laundry wondered down to co-op to get James a congratulations card came back and laid in bed all afternoon

last week i did practically nothing, bar friday night where we went out round barnsley.

started off in the courthouse, at 7.30, terri offered to buy a round of drinks in :) skip turned up after a bit, and then julia and griffin + loz and al. we sat outside for a while, drank quite a bit and talked about random things whilst we waited for miggy. got bored of waitin after a while, so we went up to Lloyds - fucking hell that place is huge. went to the upstairs bar, which was empty, then down into the garden, where i took some very random photos of terri (one of her kissing miggy)

It started to rain - shocking i know, so we went and sat upstairs. tried to buy cheeky V but they had no port left :( Terri bought pimms which was rather strange to me as she just appeared with it from no-where. around 10 skip went off to meet up with some of his work mates, and lozz and Al went home, so the rest of us went of to funny girls. should point out by this bit of the evening i was very drunk.

So in funny girls, we ended up dancing for ages, griff and jules won cocktails from the drag queens - as they were the best dances (the drag queens stood at the front, and u had to follow them - which was quite funny). we ran into skippy just as we were leaving he was with....someone. we tried to go to assembly, but it was closed :( so went in oxygen for a bit. saw mels mum. i stayed in there for a bit, then went outside from fresh air. txted bev to apologise for not hearing my phone ring earlier.

the others came out of Oxygen about 1.30, jules headed home, whilst we went to get food, and wait for my taxi - which was late. So from what i rember it was a good evening, although i woke up with one massive hangover on saturday :(

so this weekend was nice. got up at 10.20 on friday, finished packing my stuff, got dressed then went down to boots to buy my lunch. got back to the flat just after 12.30, made sure i had everythin then left for the train station. got to meadowhall a few mins late - damm the transport system! anyway met my mum the headed off home. got back to mine, then my mum and dad went shopping whilst i stayed and chatted to david whilst watchin the fottie.

so my parents got back after an hour, my mum had bought a new phone so ive not got her old phone wich was the model up from what i used to have. so we chatted and wacthed the football - ivory coast versus someone, i think it was holland although i had to be told that it was Ivory Coast as the letters on the score board CIV.

James turned up after a while, asked me why i was back at home - told him for a party, so for about half an hour there was all of us in the house, which was kind of weird and strange but really nice, especially as we all haddnt been at home together since christmas. james left when the 1st half ended and mum started to get supper ready for us - fajitas!!! + nachos, and we share 3 bottles of white wine between the 4 of us. nothin much happened for the rest of the evening, watched BB, saw grace get evicted and laughed when the crowd began singing;

She's going home
She's going home
She's going!
Grace is Going Home!!!!

after the eviction watched the second half of the west wing, then went to bed

Saturday
woke up around 10.30, watched some of the rugby, as it was on the main tele down stairs. said goodbye to my parents - they were going to a party where we used to live then later said goodbye to david, he was going to manchester to see the Foo Fighters. so had the house to my self for a bit, got washed and dressed, had some lunch and waited for paul to get to mine.

walked down to co-op to buy alcohol, i got malibu and coke, met up with helen, by chance she walked in just as we were paying. paul got ID and i didnt which made me laugh, waited for helen to pick out what she wanted then we went down to skips. got there at 3.10, spent five mins tryin to work out if we were at the right place then went inside and over the next few hours chatted with dan and jonny and slowly worked my way through the malibu. got to around 6ish, and Burky turned up, me and helen had to look twice as he now looks like my brother James.

we chatted, crude jokes were told one somethin like - helen was talking about how sleeping at her mothers where she woke up to find the cat laying on top of her, before she moved it off to which i replied didnt u enjoy waking up with a pussy on top of u lol.

we looked at skips photos, laughed and joked at how most of them were of the landscape, and how eventually we found ones with him and people. we joked for a bit longer, until people began to leave, first dan, then johnny and paul, until there was only me, helen skips next door neighbour and skips family. we chatted for a few hours, and discussed everything from natalie dating skippy, to natalie dating....well anyone really and how she treats people.

me and helen left skips around 11.50 as there was non alcohol left, got back to mine just after 12.10 and watched some telly for a bit, something about Angela Landsbury as helen wanted to watch it then went to bed after 1.

Sunday
woke up and got out of bed around 10.30 watched the simpsons, i think or mayb charmed, then went online to look at various videos on youtube including the video of Tara and Giles (Amber Benson & Anthony Head) doing songs from rocky horror;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc427odDnw8&search=anthony%20stewart%20head

helen left around 1, and i put on xmen, then watched the west wing. my parents got back around 3.30, watched a few more episdoes of the west wing, then watched Commander in chief and the simpsons, before we had a BBQ and a few more bottles of wine. watched deal or no deal, after we watched holiday DVDs from my parents holidays with friends from where we used to live. had a relativly early night, after watching some of Austin Powers 2: The Spy who Shagged Me

Monday

woke up just before 11, as my alarm didnt go off, watched some more of Austin powers 2 packed my bag and got washed and dressed, watched some charmed and had my lunch. my dad was giving me a lift down to meadowhall, got there about half one, well before my train so put my back in one of the lockers then went for a wonder around m'hall for a bit. got a train to sheffield, went to whsmith to get a paper and a drink then sat in the wating area for a bit. saw rachel Knox from 6th form. got my train, and got back to lincoln just after 4.

So easter hollidays were fun, but felt really short. first tuesday night was fun at chigago rock. Got very drunk. thought i was going to stop drinkin, then people offered to buy me drinks, and i felt it would be rude to refuse. me and helen had a drunken chat about things i cant remeber now. i discovered the wonders of Garlic bread and cheese, as well as making mashed potatoes woth helen and vicki for chaz.

Wednesday night, still a little hungover went out agin, although it was only me and helen. went to the courthose for a bit then the room. ran in to grace, tara and laura from 6th form and had a drink with them before going to chaz's house

Spent the rest of the holiday revisin, watchin the tv and lazyin about doing nothin. also stared reading Tom Clancy's book 'Executive Orders'. Mum and dad brought me back on saturday 22nd April. went to morrisons to stock up my cupboards and then went to have lunch at tootsies. saturday afternoon i unpacked and did a little work on an essay.

Sunday and monday i finished writtin my essay, and revised for my IR exam on tuesday. the exam was ok, since we already knew what the questions were. the invidualtor made most of us laugh when he said
"if at any point you need to go to the white house raise your hand and someone will take you. The white house is what i call the toilet"

Anyway wednesday handed in my essay, and revised for my exam on thursday. that went fine as well apart from in the middle this girl who was sat near the back of the sports hall got up to go to the toilet and she was wearing high heeled shoes and all you could hear was clunk clunk for about a min when she was walking out of the hall, and then for another min when she came back in. after the exam got given free stuff by the SU!!! - A book of vouchers for the Guardian, as well as a stimulant drink, like red bull, and some over leafletts.

Fridays exam was fine, american Politics, so it was basically everythin i did last year at A-level.

Saturday was weird, as i didnt have to do any work as soon as i got up. Slept in tll about 11, watched some tv for a bit and spent the afternon doing very little unitll 5.30pm, when i went to help deliver leafletts for the lib dem election campaign, which basically meant i walked around parts of lincoln i didnt know about, stuffing letters in people letter boxes. we finished about 8.00, and went to a pub for a couple of hours. played darts - i lost, then came back to my room had some garlc bread and watched "Patriot Games" on DVD.

This wekk im not doing alot, apart from revising and delivering leafletts on tuesday. Im going out on wednesday night for a friends birthday and thursday night im going to the election count.

joke time

Tony blair is going for a run around London and runs in to a prostitute;
Blair - Good mornig
Prostitute - Good Morning PM. all the way for £50
Blair - Im sorry haven't got time, besides I've only got £5 on me
Prostitute - Well your can't get much for £5, PM

Tony carries on with his run. The next morning he runs in to the prostitute again, in the same place;
Blair - Good mornig
Prostitute - Good Morning PM. all the way for £49.99
Blair - Im sorry haven't got time, besides I've still only got £5 on me
Prostitute - Well your still can't get much for £5 PM

Tony carries on with his run. for the next 2 weeks he runs in to her at the same time in the same place. One morning Cherie decides she want to join Tony on the run, and they set off together hand in hand. After a while they get to where Tony sees the prostitute every morning.
Blair - Good morning! Vote Labour!
Prostitute - Good morning.
The Prostitute see that Blair is not alone,
Prostitut- See i told you, you couldnt get a lot for £5!!!

being home was cool even though it was only for the night. although i did get stuck on the train for an hour because some idiot drove into one of the railway bridges in penistone. Im sorry but if u cant miss a bridge you shouldnt be allowed to drive. anyway the delay meant it took longer to get from Sheffield to Dodworth then it did to go from Lincoln to sheffield. worst bit was we were about 100 meters out of Barnsley station when the train stopped and they told us, and why they couldnt have told us when we were in the station so we could have made alternative arrangements is beond me. Anyway rant over.

had my final day in uni, this semester, this morning. barley anyone turned up for power and ideology, the lecture theatre sits mayb 150-200 people and there were about 20 all together. but thank-fully that ended early so me emily and tom went up to get our pre-released IR papers before going to the lecture. finshed at 12 and me emily went to celebrate the end of the semester by going to lunch at tootsies - lunch special 6oz cheese burger fries and salad for £4.95. I swear to god if u never ever want to eat burgers from a fast food place, go there as the burgers are amazing.

this afternoon, though about packing but instead layed in bed watching tele, a couple of episodes of Angel from series 3 - the ones where Darla dies inorder to give birth to Connor, then the end of Deal or No Deal. Talked to terri for a bit before watchin tele.

Ok since my easter holiday dates seem to be different to everyone elses, as my holiday officaily starts on monday whilst most people have already ahd at least a week off, ive decided to CHANGE THE DATE WERE GOING ROUND TOWN

SO.....WEDNESDAY 12TH APRIL, 7.30pm starting in the Courthouse, and finshing - well wherever the wind takes us, if not probably Oxygen.

You know the drill by now, if you want to come leave a comment, and ill update the list every-so often(probably every couple of days)
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So swanwick this year was pretty cool, probably better than lat year context why...no big deprresing talks, just a lot of games and fun to be had. however the food was worse than last year, although there was no sturry. infact we didnt have rice at all. but we did have hard as bricks toast and something that looked like scrambled eggs but shure as hell didnt taste like it.

Friday
went to a lecture at 10 and dint understand a word youcef was talking about. wish id taken up his offer to leave and buy coffee. went back to the flat after the lecture, via boots so i gould buy some food for the train. finished packing and left at 12 to go to the station and get my train. journey wasnt to bad although there wasonly one carriage so the train was packed. got to sheffield, waited there for the train to dodworth instead of going on to meadowhall.
Got home, talked to helen and bev on msn for a bit and opened some birthday presents that arrived late.

left the house at 5.10 to walk to the chappel. fortunatly it had stopped raining, for the most part, so didnt get to wet. got to the chapel at 5.30, saw mel then emma and finally bev turned up to say high. Phil was late with the mini bus, he didnt get to the chapel until about 5.45, and we didnt leave to until 5.50. took us forever to get to swanwick, massive trafic jams all along the M1. got to the centre, sorted keys and stuff out, and went down to our rooms, we were at the other end of the corrider to where we were last year.

went to dinner at 7.30, fish and chips, which i thought were ok but other people didnt like, followed buy trifle i think. had our first meeting in the evening, the theme of the weekend was LIVESTRONG, the campaign led by Lance Armstrong with the yello wristbands. the band, 216state, who better than last years lot played for a bit, then we watched Wallice and Grommit the Curse of the Were Rabbit before going to bed.

Saturday
Its not natural to be up + dressed and to have eaten breakfast before 9.30 on a saturday, but somehow we managed it. breakfast included "scrambled eggs", which the bottom hald were covered in water. had 2 more meetings about livestrong, and saw a clip from dodgeball where lance armstrong cameos and talks about not giving up even though he had cancer. Emma won a game, where she had to roll a ball so that it was closest to a tub of fried eggs, and she won the whole tub.

Also everytime will, the leader who gave all the talks about livestrong , finshed a sentance, this really anoying girl called Becky, who was in the ban only beacuse she is dating the drummer, would go "Yeah thats right, or Yeah or Awesome" it just became so annoying + very funny when me mel jordan and joe took the mick out of her in the evenin. Lunch was jacket potatoes with different fillings, and desert was something, both were fine.

Didnt do any of the workshops, as i didnt want to , instead me mel and emma wondered down to the shop to try and buy a paper, but they didnt hvae any so we wondered back, after theyd bought magazines, and went and sat in the consorvatry and read until afternoon tea. afterwards walked around with anne taking pictures then went to play cards for a while.

Evening meal was chicken in a creamy sauce with saute potatoes and veg which was fine, and again i dont remeber what dessert was apart from i ate it. it think it was apple and rubabr crumble but that may have been lunchs dessert. hadthe concert in the evening, it was much better than last year. NO busted songs!!! ended up having a swayin competetion with the people sat on the other side of the room, it was our church vs everyone else first wed all be swaying in a row then they stood up so we stood up then they climbed on chairs, before a couple of people including mel and chelsey and phil and sue climbed on to the respective partners shoulders and swayed which meant we won!!
Left after the concert, had pot noodles and chips before playing poker for a bit.

Sunday
woke up just before 8, got dressed and went out in to the hall, Irene talled me that phil and sue werent there as sue had been taking in to hospital late in the evening. shes all right and was released later in the day. packed the minibus up after breakfast and it started snowing!!!. had 2 more livestrong meetings, after watchin videos from other youth confrences. finished the confrence b4 12.45, we had to run across the grass to a cameraman who was filming bits for a video. Lunch was roast beef, after we had somesort of soup. dessert was fruit salad and ice cream.

We left the centre after 2, and got back to the chapel about 3.30, i was home by 4. Phil dropped me off at the driveway to my house so i didnt have to walk. it was really weird staying at home sunday night, and not having to cook for my self.

Monday
Yesterday morning was weird, waking up in my own bed and thinking should i be going off to 6th form. left for sheffield train station at 9.45, got there at 10.20 so went and got a paper then sat in the waiting area for my train. got back to lincoln at 12.04, and whilst the train was going by the uni, saw one of my flat mates waiting fot the train to go buy! didnt do much in the evening, justa bit of work for today then had an early night.

Tuesday
waking up this morning was difficult. kept wanting to bo back to bed. had a presentation earlier that went fine. looking forward to the OC tonight and another early night.

So Saturday night was cool, got quite drunk, but not too bad so i wasnt to hungover on sunday morning. went to helens around 7. gave her, her present which was a framed Star Wars Revenge of the Sith film cell + a picture of Yoda. She got me a Bill Bailey double DVD set which is very very funnny.

went to courthouse met up with glyn bev and miggy, played on the IT box for a bit b4 going off to the room. played pool for a bit. i think i won by default, someone got the black in early, but i lost quite a few times. went to yates' via Macdonalds. had some sour apple shots, b4 heading in to oxygen. left their about 11.30ish, went back to helens for abit and watched Mock the week. Got back to mine around 1

Sunday. woke up quite hungover, but not as bad as when we went out in october. Had roast beef + Yorkshire puddings + all the trimings which was lovely. left Sheffield at 4, got into Lincoln about half 5. did a bit of work, and then had a very early night, as i felt shattered.

Monday was ok, only in uni for an hour and a half, and tuesday i was in for a couple of hours. watched the Daily show with John stewart on More4, then the OC on E4.

Wednesday. erm had room + flat inspected and passed, apart form that did very little.

Today. boring lecture at 9. think i nearly fell asleep. Subject Committee meeting this afternoon, which is the first one ive been to that went ok - i was told i made some good points, so YAY for me. Got back form UNI at 4, and since then been watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Freinds and The Brit Awards.

why do they make 9.00 lectures so boring? all they do is make you wish you'd stayed in bed.

Monday was ok, a couple of seminars, but was only in uni for about an hour so all was good.

tuesday was a hell of a lot of fun. got one of my marks back, for my power an ideology essay. got 66 out of 100, which is a 2:1!!!! was really happy all day, and got hapier in the evening when me + some of my flat mates and other people went to funzone, which is an indoor adventure playground with slides and places to jump and climb. had a really cool night there, although we did get lost on the way there and ended up walking all the way round the football ground. we played tig when we got in there, hiding and climbing to get away from people is hard work!

wednesday was ok, was acheing from all the had at playzone. had 1 lecture which was okish, was quite boring and didnt really listen, after being told the notes would be on the Virtual Campuss. spent most of the rest of the day housing hunting with Emily + Katie, who are my flat mates, as well as katies dad. had kebab and chips for lunch, and found out that kebab tastes better when your drunk, although it was still nice. had lib dem meeting in the evening where we, as usual discussed everything but the libdems, althugh we did mention/laugh at Mark Oaten and made several hundred inuendo jokes about him!

got home around 10.00 played on PS2 for abit and watched celeb big brother, and about 20 to 12, just as i was about to got to bed i got this message from helen;
"Ay up morgan thee will never guess who has just had sex in livingstones toilets.......Me lol a fell like a slut lol H"

woke this morning feeling terrible. so went back to bed for half an hour and woke up refreshed. put the computer on and went for a shower, read the news stories from bbc news, and found once again a Lib Dem was on the fron page for having homosexual relations. thats 2 in 4 days! i think we should have charlse back as all he ever did was get very drunk and not tell people. i mean whats the priblem with that.....apart from lying. im betting sometime soon, as in within the next week or so Ming Camplee will get in on the act and anounce hes gay as well.
my lecture this morning was so dull...nearly fell asleep. and the seminar fo it was just as bad.
ive spent the afternoon doing nothing productive, althuogh i have been tryin to complete this impossible level on star wars battlefront 2. i also watched last nights big brother on E4 and saw the legend that is Borris on Richard on Judy.

Birthday Plans - Usuall thing if you want to come leave a comment
7.30 @ Courthouse Saturday 11th Febuary(which is my birthday!!!!!)
So far there is:
Me
Helen

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

So on New Years Eve helen came round to mine, and we started our star wras movie marathon - attempting to watch all 6 star wars movies back to back.

Id forgotten how much stuff is in the 1st film, most of its pointless, we dont see the pod race, or Jar-Jar-Binks.

when your watching all the movies you notice the slight problem with the 6 films. if Obi-Wan was at the birth of Luke and Leia, then how come he thinks Luke was their only hope????????????? Also why cant R2D2 fly in the orginal trilogy, hes meant to be more advanced. One good point is that the films do get better as they go on, as Jar-Jar's role, and lines, become less and less.

At 11.50 paused the 3rd film, and put on sky news to watch the fireworks in London, which were cool. Helen went outside and had her first cigeratte of the year, or DEATH STICK as shes calling them now. Anyway, finished the 3rd film & 4th films, but didnt start the 5th, as were to tired. BUt we had watched over 9hours of Star Wars.

Ok Tuesday night, helen, me, terri and Miggy are going out. we're meeting at the courthouse at 8.30ish(ill check this with helen, and if its wrong ill change it). if you want to come, meet us there

And One last thing - Memories of 2005 - leave a comment with your answers please

1. Happiest Memory of the Year
2. Least Happiest Memory of the Year
3. Drunken moment of the Year
4. House Party of the Year
5. Pub Party of the Year
6. Pub crawl of the Year
7. Best Movie of the Year
8. Worst Movie of the Year
9. Song of the Year
10. Worst Song of the Year
11. TV Show of the Year
12. Worst TV Show of the Year
13. Favourite new word or phrase
14. Something youll miss the most from the year
15. Most Embarassing moment of the year
16. Funniest Moment of the Year
17. Moment that made you cry
18. Ever-lasting memory of the Year

so wednesday was really cool, got very very drunk and went to like 7 pubs!

started off at courthouse with helen, we got there early, so obviously everyone else got there late. gave helen her xmas present, a signed hary potter script!!!!!!!, and she gave me the little britain season two scripts, so it was scripts all round.

stayed in courthouse for a bit, wainting for people to turn up. eventually terri mel and kayleigh turned up, we all had a drink and went to the room. we found glyn on our way there

room was cool had sour apple shots with helen and terri, tlaking about, not really sure. terri was already drunk by this point, althuogh she wont admit it. afterwards me mel helen and terri went to macdonalds, before helen terri and me went to retro, which was dead and soviet which was also dead, and full of people who were obviously under 18. i dont agree with underage drinking........now that im 18.

then it was off to yates's found mel outside, had more sour apple with helen, before sitting in a padded corner with a now very drunk terri, but she still wouldnt admit it. played on it box for a bit B4 heading off to assembly, were the walls are also padded. tried to get txt message on the big screen like last time, but they didnt put mine up.

left there, went in to oxygen, were everyone else was, and bev who appeared out of no-where. mels got me hooked on there ultimate cocktail thing that is rum, malibu(which i know is also rum) pineapple juice and lemonade. danced to some song i dont know the name off with every1 else, and sat on the floor for some reason, before the incrediblly drunk teri throw a drink at me for no reason. btw she still wouldnt admit to being drunk, but thought they should get me home soon cos i was drunk or summin.

went to hevane and hell for a bit probably like 20mins, but left as terri was tired. went to kebbbab shop, then joined the taxi q. got home, was very sleepy. woke up yetserday morning not feeling very well...very headachey and very tired.

going to genesis tonight, cant wate havent been there for ages it will be nice to c phil and sue

2moz is xmas eve which is really cool as all my family will be here, its first time in ages that all of us, as in my brothers, will be home for xmas, but b4 that i have to write a 1500 word essay, which wont take me to long. also am going to midnight mass with my mum

so havent updated in ages, dont really know why, just havent got round to it.

last weekend was nnice, finshed uni at 11.00 on friday which allowed m,e to get the 12.27 train to meadowhall and meet my mum, then on to home, via a quick stop at a travell agents so my mum could get some currency.

so got to my proper house, and spent the afternoon and evening chatting to my parents, seeing what changes theyve made to the house, like the brand new george forman grill whiuch they bought once id left. gave them there kind of thank you presents for helping me get everything sorted out at my room in lincoln, gave my dad some red wine and my mum some diabetic chocolate. had home cooked food in the evening, god it felt good not to have to cook!
had an early night, was just so unbelivably tired, and for the first time in ages i wasnt woken up by people going to their flats.

On saturday did pretty much nothing during the day, got some a-level notes + txt books out of the garrage to bring back to uni, and then got ready for going out round town

surprise surprise i was the first one to the courthouse. i slapped helen for being late! had a great time, although couldnt help missing people like mel and terri. got incredibly drunk that night and the reason is, in 3words - alcholic straberry milkshake!, oh and probably the fact that i was having double spirits all night and was taught the trick of using a straw to down alcho-pop bottles. so the milkshake thing, had some of that at oxygen, then somehow me helen and miggy got julia to her house, then went for kebabs + pizzas. spent the night at helens as was just so drunk and couldnt be bothered to find or wait for a taxi.

wasnt to well in the morning, but not sure why. my mum picked me and miggy up from helens, went home had a shower then went for a try and sober up walk down to the co-op to put some money on my phone. had home cooked food for lunch - mums lasagne the best in the world, but wasnt well enough to try the wine.

My trian ride home was kind of hellish as they were doing some work on the track between gainsbough and lincoln, which meant several things
1.i would have to get off my train and on to a bloody coach, that thankfully was there wating for us
2.the idiots who put the trains on the screen at sheffield changed the name of destination from lincoln to gainsborugh so i spent the first few mins of the journey worrying that i was on the wrong train, but thankfully i wasnt.
got back to the flat around 8.00, unpacked the mass amount of food my mum had given me, it was like oh! do u want this bread and these pasta sauces.

Not really done much this week, had a lb dem meeting on monday, which entailed us meeting up and wondering round pubs in linocln, and just occasionly discussing the lib dems apart from that done nothing.

And Finally i have chosen not to be sad that im not going to see skip for 10 mounths, but rather happy that he is fullfilling a life-long dream. Here's hoping that we all full-fill our dreams one day.

so yesterday started the day by watching buffy the vampire slayer - season 6 Doublemeat Palace- in preparation for wednesday. didnt have breakfast as that would have required effort, so satayed in bed until mid-day. had lunch and watched some of Toy story. had forgotten how great that movie is.

in afternoon went down to the church to help out with their garden party, with terri, emma skip and eventually helen. terri had her face painted, so she looked madder than usual, and we ran the sweet stall, single handingly keeping it going until customers turned up.

decided to have a pool party whilst at the church for yesterday evening so after the party fuinished went up to co-op to buy some drink then headed off home to make my tea and get the pool ready for 7.30. so at 8.00 helen arrived, spectaculary late even by her standards.

so swam in the pool from 8.30 till near midnight, then got dry, ordered food, even though miggy john turned up with some pizza earlier. watched jack dee live at the apollo untill about 3.00 before going to sleep

woke up at 8.00 and slowly started the clear up. sat outside with helen, terri and skip for a while, and for some reason we were talking about vomit, but really dont know why.

now im going to go for another swim

So on friday morning had my SPU exam, think it went ok as there was only 1 question i couldnt do.

Friday evening went to gen where we had a saftey talk, complete with stupid answers from me and helen, before going to the pub with helen and skip. Saw Mr Ross, had a few drinks a played a few games of darts - lost to helen but beat skip!

Saturday met bev on a bus into town, where we were going to meet up with helen, emma, terri, mel and some people from college - derf joe and kaleigh. We were going to go upto lock park but since it were cold went to play bowling, but for some starnge reason had to wait for a bus to arthersly. Go on the bus there were 6 of us on the back seat, going round corners was cool although i kept getting squished.

Played a couple of games, i won the first out of the boys - including helen who went under the name albert ross - but was cheated out of the second game. Watched joe and derf then mel and terri on one of thoes dance machine things, had some food then went to get the bus back to barnsley, but missied it by a few seconds so waited for the next. Got on it and once agian 6 of us sat on the back, but this time mel was puching against me and terri so we pushed back - great fun.

Got to bus station waited around for our buses and saw a man being helped by paramedics - he was by the side of the level crossing. Terri thought that he was aming for the train but got hit by the barriers, i thought that he had jumped over the barriers on the other side but misssed the train and fell over the barriers. - ok its bot that funny now but yesterday it was.

Came home got bus back with bev and emma, waited till 7.00 then watched Dr Who - they were on different game shows it were brilliant and the daleks are back now cant wait for next weeks. watched tele for a few hours - have found the funniest show ever called "whose line is it anyway?"

Woke up this morning to a cold and miserable day.
quick pool update - todays colour is light greeny-blue