[00:00:00] The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap [00:00:09] So that was the first big [00:00:10] Weekend of the summer [00:00:13] Starts Thursday as usual [00:00:14] With the canteen quiz and again [00:00:16] No-one wins the big cash prize [00:00:19] Later I do my sound Bloke routine [00:00:20] By approaching Gina's [00:00:21] New boyfriend to say [00:00:22] That he shouldn't feel that [00:00:23] There's any animosity between us [00:00:25] Then I even go and make peace [00:00:26] With her Shouldn't have bothered [00:00:34] Then on Friday night we [00:00:35] Went through to the Arches [00:00:46] There was only one car going [00:00:47] So some of us had to get the train [00:00:49] We got through quite late [00:00:50] Then we went to a pub to take the gear [00:00:53] There was no problems getting in [00:00:54] We saw some others waiting down [00:00:55] The front of the queue so [00:00:56] We skipped in [00:00:57] It was a good night - everyone [00:00:59] Was nutted and I ended up [00:01:00] Dancing with some blonde girl [00:01:02] I thought she had been [00:01:03] Quite pretty until last night when [00:01:04] Matthew informed me that she had [00:01:05] In fact been a pig [00:01:13] When the club finished [00:01:14] We wandered the streets [00:01:15] For a while until we got to [00:01:16] This 24-hour cafe [00:01:18] I didn't like the look of it [00:01:19] So we left and got a taxi [00:01:20] Back to Morag's flat [00:01:22] I couldn't sleep so [00:01:24] I sat about drinking someone else's [00:01:25] Strawberry tonic wine and tried [00:01:26] To keep everyone else up [00:01:43] Then at ten o'clock in the morning [00:01:44] We went downstairs to [00:01:45] Buy some drink [00:01:46] We had intended [00:01:47] To watch the football in the afternoon [00:01:48] But we'd passed out by then [00:01:49] And slept right through it [00:01:51] Awaking to find that England [00:01:52] Had won two-nil [00:01:55] Then we went to get the train [00:01:56] Home and had a few in the [00:01:57] Station bar [00:01:58] We had some stuff left from [00:01:59] The previous night's supplies [00:02:00] So when we got home we decided [00:02:02] To go down to John's indie disco [00:02:05] Same story as Friday [00:02:06] Lots of hugging [00:02:06] Lots of dancing etc etc [00:02:09] I couldn't sleep again [00:02:09] So went to the park [00:02:10] To look at the toon [00:02:12] Taking a detour through [00:02:13] The playpark [00:02:14] To get in we had to climb over [00:02:15] A ten foot steel fence which resulted [00:02:17] In severe bruising of our hands [00:02:18] Legs and groins [00:02:20] But we had a good laugh on the stuff [00:02:21] Especially the tube-slide [00:02:22] Which probably doubles up [00:02:23] As a urinal for drunk teens [00:02:26] Then we walked through the woods [00:02:27] To have a look at the toon [00:02:28] Big disappointment [00:02:29] But the mist on the lake was cool [00:02:35] Sunday afternoon we go up to [00:02:36] John's with a lot of beer in time to [00:02:38] Watch the Simpsons - it was a [00:02:39] Really good episode about love [00:02:41] Always ending in tragedy except [00:02:42] Of course for Marge and Homer [00:02:44] It was quite moving at the end [00:02:45] And to tell you the truth my eyes [00:02:46] Were a bit damp [00:02:55] Then we watched these young girls [00:02:56] In swimsuits have a water [00:02:57] Fight in the street [00:03:01] We went up to the pub about ten [00:03:02] It was busy for a Sunday night [00:03:04] Lots of people we know [00:03:05] Including my first ever girlfriend [00:03:07] Who I still find very attractive [00:03:08] Quite frankly [00:03:09] But I didn't really speak to her [00:03:11] She's probably still a b**ch anyway [00:03:14] Her friend Gillian was there [00:03:16] I had a chat with her [00:03:17] She was still quite pleasant [00:03:19] At the same time I watched Malcolm [00:03:20] Make some terrible attempt to try [00:03:23] And chat up a girl we know called Jo [00:03:26] He made some remark about her [00:03:28] Skirt that was barely there the