[ti:The First Big Weekend]
[ar:Arab Strap]
[al:The Week Never Starts Round Here]
[00:09.17]So that was the first big
[00:10.15]Weekend of the summer
[00:10.73]
[00:13.92]Starts Thursday as usual
[00:14.84]With the canteen quiz and again
[00:16.50]No-one wins the big cash prize
[00:18.09]
[00:19.38]Later I do my sound Bloke routine
[00:20.85]By approaching Gina's
[00:21.97]New boyfriend to say
[00:22.85]That he shouldn't feel that
[00:23.83]There's any animosity between us
[00:24.98]
[00:25.57]Then I even go and make peace
[00:26.72]With her Shouldn't have bothered
[00:29.60]
[00:34.20]Then on Friday night we
[00:35.08]Went through to the Arches
[00:36.28]
[00:46.27]There was only one car going
[00:47.19]So some of us had to get the train
[00:48.44]
[00:49.32]We got through quite late
[00:50.08]
[00:50.91]Then we went to a pub to take the gear
[00:52.35]
[00:53.35]There was no problems getting in
[00:54.42]We saw some others waiting down
[00:55.40]The front of the queue so
[00:56.42]We skipped in
[00:56.86]
[00:57.74]It was a good night - everyone
[00:59.35]Was nutted and I ended up
[01:00.53]Dancing with some blonde girl
[01:01.45]
[01:02.68]I thought she had been
[01:03.50]Quite pretty until last night when
[01:04.76]Matthew informed me that she had
[01:05.83]In fact  been a pig
[01:06.87]
[01:13.92]When the club finished
[01:14.58]We wandered the streets
[01:15.52]For a while until we got to
[01:16.70]This 24-hour cafe
[01:17.68]
[01:18.68]I didn't like the look of it
[01:19.81]So we left and got a taxi
[01:20.88]Back to Morag's flat
[01:21.44]
[01:22.78]I couldn't sleep so
[01:23.45]
[01:24.29]I sat about drinking someone else's
[01:25.36]Strawberry tonic wine and tried
[01:26.69]To keep everyone else up
[01:27.79]
[01:43.61]Then at ten o'clock in the morning
[01:44.80]We went downstairs to
[01:45.56]Buy some drink
[01:46.29]
[01:46.83]We had intended
[01:47.35]To watch the football in the afternoon
[01:48.77]But we'd passed out by then
[01:49.83]And slept right through it
[01:50.98]
[01:51.50]Awaking to find that England
[01:52.44]Had won two-nil
[01:53.17]
[01:55.06]Then we went to get the train
[01:56.22]Home and had a few in the
[01:57.25]Station bar
[01:57.58]
[01:58.23]We had some stuff left from
[01:59.20]The previous night's supplies
[02:00.16]So when we got home we decided
[02:02.54]To go down to John's indie disco
[02:03.89]
[02:05.20]Same story as Friday
[02:06.09]Lots of hugging
[02:06.99]Lots of dancing etc  etc
[02:08.24]
[02:09.16]I couldn't sleep again
[02:09.83]So went to the park
[02:10.69]To look at the toon
[02:11.56]
[02:12.21]Taking a detour through
[02:13.07]The playpark
[02:13.57]
[02:14.36]To get in we had to climb over
[02:15.77]A ten foot steel fence  which resulted
[02:17.14]In severe bruising of our hands
[02:18.49]Legs and groins
[02:19.07]
[02:20.15]But we had a good laugh on the stuff
[02:21.40]
[02:21.92]Especially the tube-slide
[02:22.62]Which probably doubles up
[02:23.73]As a urinal for drunk teens
[02:25.03]
[02:26.57]Then we walked through the woods
[02:27.57]To have a look at the toon
[02:28.73]Big disappointment
[02:29.71]But the mist on the lake was cool
[02:30.88]
[02:35.50]Sunday afternoon we go up to
[02:36.70]John's with a lot of beer in time to
[02:38.25]Watch the Simpsons - it was a
[02:39.73]Really good episode about love
[02:41.02]Always ending in tragedy except
[02:42.28]Of course  for Marge and Homer
[02:43.30]
[02:44.28]It was quite moving at the end
[02:45.32]And to tell you the truth my eyes
[02:46.44]Were a bit damp
[02:46.98]
[02:55.20]Then we watched these young girls
[02:56.20]In swimsuits have a water
[02:57.35]Fight in the street
[02:58.25]
[03:01.24]We went up to the pub about ten
[03:02.55]It was busy for a Sunday night
[03:04.51]Lots of people we know
[03:05.39]Including my first ever girlfriend
[03:06.49]
[03:07.73]Who I still find very attractive
[03:08.88]Quite frankly
[03:09.38]But I didn't really speak to her
[03:10.52]
[03:11.49]She's probably still a bitch  anyway
[03:12.49]
[03:14.89]Her friend Gillian was there
[03:15.72]
[03:16.72]I had a chat with her
[03:17.60]She was still quite pleasant
[03:18.73]
[03:19.49]At the same time I watched Malcolm
[03:20.80]Make some terrible attempt to try
[03:23.85]And chat up a girl we know called Jo
[03:25.18]
[03:26.86]He made some remark about her
[03:28.00]Skirt that was barely there the
[03:29.23]Previous night or something
[03:30.00]
[03:33.05]I couldn't sleep again that night
[03:34.05]
[03:35.23]Thanks to some seriously disturbing
[03:36.49]Nightmares    Matthew says
[03:38.86]I should cut down on the cheese
[03:40.46]"Went out for the weekend
[03:41.55]It lasted for ever  high with
[03:44.03]Our friends it's officially summer "
[03:45.98]
[03:46.58]"Went out for the weekend
[03:47.98]It lasted for ever  high with
[03:50.42]Our friends it's officially summer "
[03:52.54]
[03:53.16]"Went out for the weekend
[03:54.61]It lasted for ever  high with
[03:56.91]Our friends it's officially summer "
[03:59.01]
[03:59.66]"Went out for the weekend
[04:01.24]It lasted for ever  high with
[04:03.67]Our friends it's officially summer "
[04:05.57]
[04:06.79]I got some sleep eventually
[04:07.99]On Monday afternoon
[04:08.69]
[04:09.52]It was a beautiful day
[04:10.52]And later that evening Malcolm
[04:11.87]Introduced me to the
[04:12.67]Power of Merrydown - ￡1 79 a litre
[04:14.92]8 2% - mmmm
[04:18.13]
[04:19.61]Judith and Laura came round later
[04:20.88]
[04:21.50]And we sat in my back garden and drank
[04:22.93]
[04:24.27]Then Matthew came round
[04:25.04]And we went up the town
[04:25.82]
[04:32.22]It's officially summer