JULY............................

Paula & Dan’s Wedding
Manchester

Trip with one’s ex is always a tad risqué, but how about a whole weekend and a wedding? Luckily twas  a wedding of awesomeness.

Headed up to Manchester for the first time ever to see Paula and Dan’s wedding, adamant that a certain someone was going to miss the train because of drunk midnight calls to my sister, but we made the train. We arrived at the venue in the party cab to check in before heading onto the church. What is it with me and cab drivers that don’t know the way – stupid cab man went the longest way ever but we were there in good time for this one, no having to dash in just before the bride.

Oh I forgot to mention I did manage to rock my awesome big pink hat for this one, much to the old lady behind me dis-belief.

Anyway fast forward to wedding speeches – no ordinary wedding speeches but a quiz. A QUIZ, yes a quiz and guess what, my table rocked it and won that quiz and won amazing medals. Can you tell we were a bit smug! Music soon followed by the amazing Crown Top Kings, rockabilly tastic, followed by the DJ, whose rock collection i think we exhausted by the end of the night.

A truly fun wedding, new friends made, ROCK.

Fiona’s birthday camping
The Falcon Pub, Bedford, Milton Keynes

Only Fiona could suggest camping in a beer garden... she suggested... we followed.

This was a truly fantasmagorical weekend with a whole fuck ton of laughter. I think the following videos demonstrate the level we were at this weekend. We ate well, drank well (well i was shit faced crying to Dolly P songs), listened to Hanson and enjoyed a weekend of pure lovely friendshipness, fills me with belly love thinking about it. xxxx

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5 months.....

I haven't updated for 5 months now, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of starting this thing in the first place, but here goes a blow by blow of the past 147 days.


The Month of May
Imogen & David's Wedding
Flaxton, York

So I made my second visit to the uni folk up north in order to celebrate Imogen and David's nuptials. After my almost missing the mega bus up there, we were lumped with the most dense taxi driver in the world. We were all ready in our finery, in a lovely air conditioned cab, but then got stuck in a fuck load of traffic, the woman didn’t know where she was dropping us off, my good old Nokia maps to the rescue and I directed her to the venue! But by the time we had eventually got there the coach bringing us to the church had already left…duh duh duh. So, now fighting back the tears about the fact that we might miss the one most singular important day of our beloved Imogen’s life, BEN came to the rescue. Yes Ben, fresh faced young Ben who worked behind the bar, the best thing about fresh faced young Ben was that he had a car, he could drive that car, and best of all, he could drive it fast!

Approximately 3 minutes later we dashed into the church and took our pews just before the beautiful bride turned up. Imogen waltzed down the aisle like an actual princess (the dress was also called ‘the Princess’ so it’s a fact) with her Wild Thornberries Dad proud as punch.

Ceremony over, we got a massive old school bus back to the reception venue. The food, wine, champagne, toast, speeches were all awesome, but the highlight of the meal was the biggest fucking cheese board I have EVER seen in my life. It was a CHEESE TABLE! Michelle took full advantage of the cheese table, did me proud. In good old Imogen style there was the cheesiest wedding band known to man which pleased us greatly because by that time we were smashed and well up for a good dance.

All in all, a truly beautiful wedding and it was so nice to be around all the uni girls again – next time, they come to London to visit me!

The Number One House in Tulse Hill - FACT

NUMBER ONE HOUSE IN TULSE HILL

Tulse Hill, SE27

I moved into possibly one of the best houses in the world with probably the best house mates in the world, we have named our house The Number One House in Tulse Hill because it is (but not at pub quizzes, because then we’re the third best!) This picture is our first official house photo. Also did I mention, WE HAVE A SUMMER HOUSE!

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