Wow, 3 weeks since i last blogged, i’m starting to think about canning this old girl!

The weekend of the 20th didnt really contain much, did some xmas shopping, wrapping paper and the usual crap and spent it packing for my journey home on Wednesday. The journey was a nightmare, with the frozen ground providing no end of problems for trains etc meaning i nearly missed the last train home and would have had to sleep in a station – fun fun.

Xmas eve i went bowling with the family and cousins etc which was fun, i even won the first game by a point which annoyed my dad and brother no end given i am totally round armed! For Xmas we had the usual Xmas dinner, presents etc although a little belated as my mum was working until 12. I got the usual socks, smellies, books etc plus a new iphone alarm clock w/ dock as my current one is ultra low tech!

For Boxing day we went round to my aunties for a buffet and a few drinks, which was fun given the ice on the paths was ridiculously thick! Nearly fell over about 50 times, so suprised i didnt break my neck!

From the 27th-30th we were up in the Lake district, however we couldnt really go on any long walks as the ice and snow had made all the paths too dangerous to walk on, so we had a wander around Cartmel and spent the rest relaxing and driving to Kendal etc where i bought a bottle of Balvennie 15 year single malt, yum yum!

The night of the 30th, on a spur of the moment, myself and Matt booked hotel rooms in the Midland hotel and met up with Joe Joe for a night out in Manchester for old times sakes; the rooms are normally £300 apparently but we picked them up on laterooms.co.uk for just £70 which was awesome. We met up with Emma in town after a nandos and proceeded to do the usual Printworks circuit of Lloyds, Norweigan Blue and Opus before Emma made her way home and we made our way to the strip club which was closed. On walking to Deansgate locks we met a guy who said he knew a strip club that was free in and round the corner, so we followed his advice and what a night it turned out to be! Place called Silks Gentlemans Lounge, pretty nice inside (no laminate for starters!) and the girls were unbelievable. Needless to say we had 4-5 bottles of beer and a few of the local produce before stumbling back to the hotel for 5am.

NYE rolled around and in my hungover state i made it home to pack for Raj to pick me up for our journey to a house party in Cheltenham at my old housemates Shauns. Raj turned up in his new Alfa Romeo GT which made the journey down to Cheltenham via Locky in B’ham a breeze. We picked up a Maccy D’s before setting about drinking the earth dry until about 3am, where we crashed – only to be woken up by a naked Locky and Signorelli, i still have nightmares! Waking up on a floor as Raj and Soph had taken up the bed, i sobered up enough to go to Nandos and then the cinema watching Avatar before me and Raj headed back to the home land of Reading where from now on until work on Monday im doing washing, cleaning and general house shit, not fun.

Anyway, its Sunday so that means Nandos, the boys and back to back NFL on the 37″ baby. God i love this decade!

Sam.