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Things to do - apparently:-

For this weekend sort out what I'm wearing as a costume for the Stag Film. The character of vaguely dipsomaniac Welsh soccer fan should be serviced by a few football shirts some tinnies and pretending that I don't have a Welsh accent. Sorted.

I've aired out my sleeping bag, gonna pack a duvet and pillow, not as young as I was on Monday. Got a torch and we'll pick up food and beer on the way. This is a stag weekend after all as well as a film unit. Sharing a tent with Jon so no worries on having to acquire canvas at short notice.

Weather looks good so I'm looking forward to it.

For the wedding itself there are a few small matters to iron out - suit, tie, speech, transport but nothing that can;t be talked about in pubs for the next ten weeks and then panicked about properly at the last minute.

WD - 99

Weekends

Just spent a wonderful weekend in North Yorkshire - a part of the world I'm not really familiar with.

On the way to a Bed and Breakfast in Snape we stopped in Pickering and took the North York Moors Railway to Goathland. This is where Heartbeat was filmed and if ir wasn't I doubt anybody would go there which would probably please the locals no end. Excellent sausage and bacon cob (or whatever they are called in Yorkshire) on Pickering station.

On to Snape and a three course meal that ranks as high as any I have had in a while and fairly cheap too. The pub, which has rooms and does breakfast, is well worth a visit. Castle Arms Inn. Stopped off in Helmsley on the way back where there seen ed to be some sort of bike rally going on. The castle has seen better days as you will observe.

Wakefield for a very late lunch and then back to Leicester for comedy at the Firebug. Paul Sinha with what felt like a new show and Marcus Birdman with what felt like a hit and miss show,

Then on Monday the instructions arrive about next weekend. Well they did eventually - I've still got old school technology on the laptop. How to camp, where to camp who is camping. How the film is going to work - this being the famous Stag film for the wedding. Almost forgotten about the wedding. It's all starting to seem a bit more real and I'll spend tomorrow sorting out camping and filming gear.

Got a few days leave you see on account of getting older.

Anyway - Happy Birthday to me....

WD - 100

Pubs and Flowers

This is the sort of thing that should have happened last week.......

Pub

Some people are taller when you are sitting down

Spear of Destiny at the Musician last Wednesday. Got there as the second support band started and sat on posh red sofa with T lights on the table - and beer. Not very punk rock but none of us are getting any younger.

It was all very polite. We were only about ten feet from the stage but people appeared unwilling to stand in front of us. Not that Kirk and the boys do any somersaults or moon walking etc - so we weren't missing much anyway. A fine evening and set me up wonderfully for the two days of training scheduled at work....

WD - 102

D'Oh!

Today it works so it all goes a bit out of sync.

Like 'Lanark' only not nearly as good!

Errors

It;s really ticking me off. I finally start writing something and I'm getting a load of crap about html errors and meta tags,

Formalities

This is what I tried to post yesterday with pictures and links and everything. Oh! It would have been wonderful

I had a reminder the other week about the wedding as I got an invite. So that should have propelled me in to a frenzy of activity. No, didn't happen.

I've been to Hereford to watch Leicester City away, again. Finding some nice pubs in Ullingswick on the way there, for lunch and in Ledbury on the way back.

The weekend just gone it was all about clearing out the garage in readiness for a new roof. having said that i haven;t had a formal quote yet - so i haven;t formally started clearing out the garage. the lawn did get it's first decent cut of the year - well it's first cut and I have some lovely tulips and daffodils.

I guess the whole wedding thing will become more real in a couple of weeks when filming starts!

WD - 108