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My “Diary” blog post is below…

Scarborough were the first team I ever saw play “live”. I’m therefore sad to see that they’ve fallen upon dire straits…

read the following article…

Scarborough’s fight to survive

then sign the petition…

The Petition

(or just sign the petition)

Went to the good food show on saturday… it was really… ummm… Good!

on Wednesday I went to the ridiculously named “Love Actuary” presentation given by PwC and decided that I don’t really want to be an actuary. Fortunate, then, that they rejected me and have said that my application was good so I should apply to be in Assurance or Tax. I’m favouring the former and am doing some research before making any choices.

Thursday swung by like a pendulous car and before I knew it I was playing Badminton and losing (as usual). More rubbish people should definitely turn up.

Afterwards I went down to the pub for Lorraines birthday party…

Friday brought with it some more swinging… this time in the guise of salsa.

Another beginners lesson, and some definite improvement… it’s quite good fun.

The real centre point of the week was the ultra-busy Saturday

First there was getting to stockport station (we managed to get some really cheap tickets, btw, simply by checking the prices regularly) and onto the train to Brum.

As previously mooted, we were there for the Good Food Show!

Lots of us were there, including Pete, Wayne, Rosy etc… and we started out in the food section towards the back for a hearty lunch of “Sausage Sandwich”. Delicious.

We went round the stalls and picked up a few items, Jelly Beans, Lemonade, Cheese, nice crisps, Olives spring to mind, but there were more.

We finished off watching a Gordon Ramsey presentation in one of the theatres.

The show was very busy, but a lot of fun, so I suspect we’ll be there next year!

Speaking of annual events, we next made our way to the overtly western Cheltenham for the latest installment of Mike + Pams parties (officially now a tradition)

Loads of people were there that we knew and we stayed until 3am, where upon some taxi shannanigans took place and we retired to the premier travel lodge.

Another event I’ll definitely be attending next year.

slovenly Sunday appeared from nowhere and breakfast was (bizarrely) in a champagne bar whilst I read reports of liverpools 1-0 victory over man city, Englands patheticness at rugby and studiously avoided those remarking on the first test.

Mahinda gave us a trip home and I relaxed at home by playing a large poker session, (first in ages!) making $45 to $50 in the process.

I watched the end of the first test too. It didn’t take long.

Monday arrived and marked the start of a brand spanking new week. I was busy as a bee, so much so that my first cup of tea did not arrive until gone 4.

Lots of things sorted out, though, so that’s ok.

I’m now arranging the first ever (of this type) Manchester mathematics annual conference. Which should/could be fun/stressful.

I played footie too. It was a good game.

Smiling ponderously just behind the moon, Tuesday appeared with a flourish - which brings me (you) right up to date.

feel free to comment. (but not on any spelling mistakes or with grammatical corrections)

Monday

Played football, it was a good game too…

I can’t remember the order in which events happened so I’m just going to go through some events from last week!

- I saw the new bond film. It was pretty decent though it is very long and has a long unnecessary bit in it (which I won’t give away). (3/5).

- On the same night we tried to go to Salsa, but - because they’re rather slow at updating their website and signs - we were half an hour late - that’s when we decided to go to the cinema instead…

- I applied to PwC - finally getting my application finished!

- I did lots of marking! very very dull - finally finished on Monday night.

- Sarah cooked Sunday tea, and it was very nice.

- Went to two parties on saturday, a house warming in Newton (Jay & Donna) and then a housewarming rather closer to home (Jenny’s)

- Liverpool drew 0-0 away to Middlesborough. Of greater importance is the ashes, starting today.

- Went to Varsity last night for some relatively cheap pub fare - surprisingly good.

- Played in a live Omaha tournament on Friday. I rather unluckily bubbled. (Luck is a relative term, though, PF in Omaha!)

There are lots of things coming up too so stay tuned and I’ll probably blog about them a week or so after they happen.

No, not the football team who can’t play anywhere outside of L4 (actually scratch that, they lost three nil to Everton too) but where I went on Saturday… a complete surprise!

Anyway…

Wednesday

Some days get mentioned twice in my blog, but usually one of those will be a “Today” reference. Anyway, Wednesday Sarah and I went out for a curry date in East Didsbury.

We went to Sangam 2, after looking at all the other places and disregarding them for one reason or another (going there recently or my reluctance for a third chinese in a week being the main ones). It was lovely.

Thursday

Could’ve gone to the beer fest but stayed in and worked instead.

Friday

Went to the beer fest! had several ok’ish beers, none of them rocked my world.

Afterwards it was Sam’s party, where Justin kindly made me a compilation of stuff - looks pretty decent! I left sometime after 1am.

Saturday

Sarah promised an afternoon date but wouldn’t tell me where we were going… After leading me to the train station (which was a surprise in itself) and me sticking my fingers in my ears to drown out the railway announcements we arrived in Liverpool at around 2pm.

It was a very windy and wet day, so Sarah eschewed plans to take the ferry (we’ll be back next summer, though) and we went on the Beatles tour - which was pretty decent!

It was, however, longer than we thought so we didn’t get a chance to visit the tate, though we had some slap up fare in bar HaHa! before heading back to the station.

A very fun day out!

Upon arriving back in manchester we went down to Felicini for giant profiteroles, which were ace. The Northen Grove lot then contacted us and we headed into town only to be greeted by the busiest pubs in chrisendom.

Eventually we found one we could squeeze into (Bar Fringe) and had a pint before heading home as we were completed naq’d!

Sunday

Went home and started to apply to PwC. Watched Liverpool play atrociously against Arsenal (0-3) and then cooked pizza for dinner.

Monday

I’ve come into work so I can print lots of things off!

I’m a bit bored of blogging, but we’ll see if I can keep it up for now.

Saturday

Played in a poker tournament in Sheffield. It was a deep stack\long blinds tourney, and pretty good fun. I lasted for around 6 hours before going out in 60th. Rosy came 63rd and Jon Thompson 102nd. I felt I could’ve done better, but did hit a bad run of luck at one point.

On our way there we met an incompetent bus driver who didn’t know where he was even after we’d pulled out the Sheffield A2Z.

Anyway… back home on the train and round to Sarahs.

Sunday

Rosys turn to cook sunday dinner, and he came up with swordfish. Which was nice.

Then onto a distinctly underwhelming fireworks display at wythenshawe park, It was ok, but we were showered in ashes and it was half an hour late, with no big ending either.

Monday

Work from home then first out in the student poker tourney as I tried some proper aggression for a change.

Tuesday

Had my demonstrating lesson then went to watch Borat at the cinema. It’s ok, funny in parts (unfunny in others), but it’s not the sort of thing I’d go to see at the cinema. I described it as something I’d watch on tv only when the adverts were on in whatever I was actually watching. Overall : Not recommended. (2/5)

Wednesday

Today.

A rare inbetween update from me!

Wednesday

Stayed in and watched an amazing Arsenal game, where they literally missed two open goals - amongst other wasteful behaviour… CSKA could even have won it towards the end.

Skipped Ceilidh as I needed a night in, for a change!

Thursday

A bit under the weather I still went off to play Badminton after a frustrating day at work. Lost all my games, but had fun.

Went round Sarah’s after.

Friday

Came in for the regular Jeff meeting and had lunch at “The Pub” (Fish n Chips, very nice). Initially we tried to sit outside, despite the bitter cold, but fortunately a table became available.

That’s it up to now. I’ve nowt planned for this evening, but will be in Sheffield over the weekend… which should be fun.

Tarra!

Monday

went to the pub quiz at the red lion… didn’t do very well!

Tuesday

Played football, a decent game.

Wednesday

Played a £1 rebuy at university… didn’t do that well, but it was fun.

Thursday

Went to the Finance fair at the GMEX. It was fairly interesting.

Friday

Stayed in!

Saturday

Up at 6am and down to Chelmsford via London. Arriving at 12.

Went to meet up with everyone at Allan’s place and watched some cricket before heading down to the go-karting place.

Go-karting was fun, I did rubbish but at least finished ahead of two of the other “Hattrick” crowd. I just couldn’t get used to the idea that to pass people you had to bump them out the way…!

Back to Allans and then out for a spot of dinner and the quizzer. Wayne, Brian, Nick and I ventured into town for a couple of hours, being refused entry to one place due to Brians trainers, we discovered a decent bar before heading back to Allans for Poker, beer and the first ten minutes of the empire strikes back.

The occasion was that Allan is moving to Australia next week… so good luck Allan!

Sunday

Watched a bit of footie (Liverpool had beaten villa 3-1 the day before) and then headed into town to try and find breakfast.

Ended up with an awful pasty…

Started the trip home shortly after mid-day…

arrived back around 6pm. Went straight over to Sarahs with Rosy for sunday dinner - which was fantastic!

Sarah had cooked Spanish Tapa’s - her favourite sort of food - and I have to say that it was better than the stuff you get in most tapa’s resturants - delicious.

Mahinda, Adrian and Emma were there too.

Monday

Sarah’s ex, Mark, came up to watch a mates band in Teasers - it’s the Manchester “In the City” festival at the moment so all sorts of places are hosting gigs.

Just before we went I made a nice array of pizzas, from scratch. tasty.

The band (the straglers) were ok, but suffered from a lack of drummer, and bassist, preferring to use a DAT - which I’ve never been a fan of.

They were definitely better than the following band, however.

By this point we were joined by the two band members and Mark’s scottish friend, Archie. We headed to the sports café and carried on drinking until midnightish. Sarah and I made a move home whilst the rest stayed out.

Mark finally collapsed on my sofa at 5am the following morning!

Tuesday

Went to see The Cooper Temple Clause at the Academy 2 with Rosy and Mahinda. They were pretty good, though I didn’t get as involved as usual due to the bruises sustained at the go-karting on saturday.

Enjoyable though.

It’s suddenly got very cold here!