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I have no plans whatsoever. This pleases me greatly.

Work. So fuck bank holiday weekends.

I am going on holiday to Poole tomorrow. I expect to get snarled in traffic outside Southampton as usual.

I woke up about an hour ago, so I've started already, it's awesome.

There'll probably be quite a lot of work involved as I've got a fairly big backlog of stuff to get cleared before I go to Barbados

- Drinking wine
- Avoiding the rain
- Fixing a couple of PCs
- Cat-sitting
- Gaming

Usual stuff really.

I may well go to the Edenbridge and Oxted Show. Dancing diggers! Cider! Vintage farm machinery! Ferret roadshow! Cider! Goat milking competition! Grand Cow Parade! Cider!

tonight - gym (or a run) followed by gaming whilst the missus has friends downstairs to watch Big Brother.

saturday - Chester Zoo!

sunday - get this week's Peoww update done (takes fucking HOURS) followed by some gaming and hopefully start s2 of Dexter.

monday - trip to Southport to see Hellboy 2 and have mexican meal.

Say hi to my parents as you go past.

I'll be working for about 4 hours on Monday, but that's about it. We need to get the tent out as we're going camping in the first week of September, but that's about it.

I'm attending the big multi-period re-enactment jamboree at Detling.

Most excellently, I get to spend the next two weeks playing XBLAH games (BC:R, Galaga Legions, Joint Strike, Braid, Geo Wars 2) and a bunch of my usual shmups, playing some bass, imbibing copious amounts of alcohol, listening to grind and trotting around the house in the buff.

The Buckinghamshire Maize Maze on Saturday.
Probably some London based shoppage on Sun, haven't been to Forbidden Planet or Cybercandy in a while.
Forza 2, enduro race or two on Mon.

tonight-might be drinking with a mate, cheap as possible aswell, I quite fancy wine and pizza.
saturday-if im lucky i might be going to the newcastle match, if im not lucky Ill probably play some dark sector.
sunday-brother in laws band the minoaturs are playing a gig in shields so Ill be going to that.
monday-resting in a pool of vimto

Putting bras and stockings* on mainly.

The wife's had an operation see and can't use her left arm for 6 weeks.

* Of the surgical variety unfortunately.

Nothing.

Moving flat next weekend, so tomorrow I'm planning to go through all my stuff and throw as much crap away as I can. I've got literally about 100 beer bottles to lug down to the bottle bank as well. Then on Sunday I'm off down to Clapham for Get Loaded in the Park, and I fully intend to. Monday will probably be spent curled up in bed, watching Top Gear repeats and dreading going back to work.

Oh, I'm also going to be making in-roads on my Really Pointless Challenge.

You will. + there is a variable speed limit on the M27 due to road widening which has made the traffic extra batshit crazy.

Chinny top tip:

Come off at junction 11 of the M3 and head on the A3090 to Romsey. Follow that road all the way you can rejoin at junction 2 of the M27 missing out the roadworks. It looks far further but if there is traffic it isn't. I use that shortcut at least once a week. In fact I'll be using it in a few hours time.

If you are feeling really smart you can cut down from junction 2 of the M27 along the A31 which runs alongside it all the way up to junction 1.

From then on you just have to endure the traffic unless you cut across the New Forest.

Staying in Sheffield tomorrow night. Monday may well be a trip to Southport.

One day this weekend the big cooling towers by the M1 are being blown up. Might be worth going to see.

Juno + XBLA + Angels seasons two and three

I remember as a kid watching some cooling towers and a big chimney getting blown up near here. It was ace, the cooling towers just sort of went wobbly and folded, looking a bit like a plastic cup that suddenly got very hot.

My garden needs some work this weekend.

literally, snap.

btw - is there still any kind of fairground there?

There is, I drove past Pleasureland the other week and it seems to have been reopened.

Mine too, but the weather forecast isn't great, is it?

cool, that'll be good then.

although I only really like fairs that have Kung Fu Master and Bomb Jack machines at 10p a play. ie - fairs in the 80s. but the missus'll be up for all that.

cheers for letting me know.

Mine too and the weather looks fine here, but bollocks to it. I might just about mow the lawns though.

I need to weed the decking, mow both front and back lawns and trim the back hedges. The nice elderly neighbour next door does our front hedge on his side for us, bless him.

depends on the weather, the reports are not good down this way, but the bbc website reckons we should have showers today, and it's been sunny for the most part. I hope it stays that way for the next 75 hours or so

Malc

So they are... Might be up for that.

3am Sat night/Sun morn.

Well... I suppose I do need to clean the rats out and do some dusting on Sunday and should probably get around to washing the car on Monday.

That's right, the party never stops at Zio Manor!

Do you shove a stick up their arse?

I've got so much work on I dunno what I'm going to do this weekend.

3 videos, all need heavy amounts of editing doing. I'm just going to end up spending hours slaving over a hot Macbook and swearing at Color.

Work, and trying to find somewhere to live with as few other people as possible for as little as possible.

It's not going very well.

Off to Great Yarmouth with Mrs A and her extended family.

Taking surfboards and hoping....

I only found out it was a bank holiday on monday 5 minutes before I left work. As a student I don't think I ever took heed of the bank holidays; they changed nothing. I would still need to do work on those days as well. Anyay, this weekend I will do exactly what I did last weekend: Nothing! Mainly because I don't know anyone and don't have a clue what there is to do around here and I don't fancy just randomly walking about. Also, my computer isn't even set up properly so I can't play any games or anything

Exciting weekend hi-jinks!

We've all got GX4000s now.

At least tell me someone's around over the weekend for someone online multiplayer on CD32 Live? I'm dying to play some co-op Oscar.

Can't do much, really. My girlfriend is away house-sitting in rural Ireland, so that reduces the possibilities somewhat. And already I've had an uneventful day of not doing much, due to having a cold (which does feel like a borderline mild flu, to be honest) preventing me from doing anything constructive. Seem to go from being congested, to the unpleasant shivering/sweating temperature fluctuation thing ever half an hour. Worse, my sense of balance feels very fucked up, so attempting to play Mario Kart earlier made me feel like = Ah well, at least the previous pre-illness week has been eventful enough for me in terms of getting out places.

Be aware they are closing that section of the M1 for part of Sunday apparently. So might be worth planning ahead if you want to travel out of town.

I keep forgetting it's the bank holiday weekend to be honest!

Are they mine and Sam's PC's you are planning on fixing? If so are you bringing the wine with you?

Oh, and Tilly

Aww - she looks like mine.

Naughty (because she is):

I'll be doing much the same as the last 2 weeks:

Being a daddy = little sleep, cuddling, nappy changes and baths. Not to mention looking after the baby ZOMGLOL!!1

In between the above I'll be kicking myppies arse all over the XBLA high score tables and being a completely overwhelmed spod in Oblivion

Craster - she's gorgeous!

Zardoz, when do we get to see baby Z?