Life in the Bus Lane

Despite the weather forecast promising yet another wet evening for the annual Sulian Approach Golf tournament, we had a dry windy evening. Six intrepid players headed out, making up a two threes, one of “old” players, and one of the youngsters (I still count as a youngster).

I peaked early, and by the third hole was reduced to 4s and 5s, with Ian on 3s and 4s. After retiring to the 19th hole where Alex had to buy the drinks thanks to his 9 on one hole, the winners were announced. I’d managed to come 3rd, and Ian came 1st after two years of 2nd place.

Pics courtesy of Alex.

I’m currently sat watching Punk’s Not Dead, and the only person that they’ve seen fit to subtitle is Wattie from The Exploited, and it’s not as if he’s particularly difficult to understand. They musy have a particular problem understanding the Scots over in the US.

Update: They’ve subtitled his brother as well.

Partly inspired by Andy resurrecting a load of old photos last week, I finally got around to sticking some old photo sets up onto flickr.

Northumberfest, 2004
Cyclocross race, 2004
Afan, 2003

In the last week I’ve picked up the Rambo Trilogy, Planet of the Apes box set, Omen Pentology, and Black Adder - The Complete Collection, all for silly prices in the HMV sale.

I also ordered my ticket to see Spiers & Boden at Widcombe Social Club, it’ll be strange going to a gig in the dingy dump where I played skittles for 14 years.

"Go-live" is off again.

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We took four children bowling tonight, ostensibly to celebrate Ethan and Lucien’s birthdays. The bowling wasn’t too bad, although I didn’t win, but the subsequent meal was chaos. At least they were other peoples children and I could come home on my own to some peace and quiet.

A lateish ride tonight. Despite aiming to leave at 6, Al wasn’t actually ready until 7. We did a quick trip round the Uni and Sham Castle in the evening sunshine, it could only have been improved if I’d remembered to stick a couple of cold beers into my bag for a mid-ride stop. Back home by 8:30 in time for a late dinner and the forgotten cans of beer.

Same again tomorrow probably.

After another few hours work I’ve now collected all 160 gold bricks in Lego Star Wars. Technically I’ve still only done 88.5% of the game, but there’s nothing left to gain, only those last few percentage points.

Time for Lego Indiana Jones?

After a quick trip out to the local Nissan dealer this afternoon, I now have both keys for my X-Trail, they’d got things mixed up and sent the wrong one out. I’ve also just fitted a proper set of mats to try and keep the rather impractical cream carpets clean. Hopefully that’ll be the last of the car-related faffage for the moment.

I spent a fair amount of time this weekend working my way through more of Lego Star Wars, I’ve just got the last two sections of Return of the Jedi to finish on free play, then most of the Bounty Hunter Challenges to complete. I’d nearly finished the last-but-one section and was down to the last cannister, when the PS3 decided to freeze meaning a reboot and a wasted 30-minutes of playing. I’ll try again one evening this week, then it’ll be time for Indiana Jones.