On Saturday night I was in Royal Leamington Spa (woo look... I spelt it right. Go me!). The plan was to run a network cable in Steve's flat so that he could use the Internet in his study without the crazy lengths of telephone extension. He's also quite like to be able to watch things on his TV and X-Box without having to burn them to DVD first.
Problem one was the the cable clips we had were too small for Cat5 - bit of a bugger. When we started there wasn't really enough time to drive to B&Q to buy some more... the closest being in Coventry. Shhhhh, Joe... I don't want to know about all the local places in t Leamington where such things could be bought!
We gave up and went out for some beers, a meal and then into a club instead.
After a road trip to Coventry the cabling got done in the afternoon. Wikky. It's cool when you can put in one cable and everything just works so much better! Well I think so anyway!
Then in the evening it was time for the TEC BBQ I'd agreed to host at my house. It was loads of fun to be honest! Woo yeah. To make things interesting we, erm I, decided to steal nextdoor's bonfire thing. Heh. No we didn't ask. We also didn't ask if we could burn the large amounts of wood in their backgarden. I'm sure that they won't mind too much!
At one stage... well many :-) somebody got over excited... here would be the aftermath where more ash ended up outside the fire than in! Whoops!
You must have been really boring if you didn't attend. Well boring... or too far away.
i am from china and i ran into your blog by accident.the photo of bonfire is very beautiful.i think you have a good time there,right?:)
Posted by: bonnenuit on May 2, 2005 12:57 PMI'd like to point out that it even though i'm in the piccy it wasn't me who got carried away. I was trying to cook food (whilst wearing my asbestos underwear :o\
Posted by: Rob on May 2, 2005 1:39 PMAre there pictures of the aftermath of the bonfire?
Was a fun night.
Posted by: Jeremy on May 2, 2005 2:32 PMI was mildly disappointed at the aftermath to be honest. Not much to see. A hell of a lot less rubbish nextdoor... and some little piles of ashes that fell out of the thing. You'd hardly tell there had been anything there.
The bottle is show what melted and no longer looks like a bottle.
Glad you enjoyed yourself!
Posted by: Ed on May 2, 2005 2:36 PMpiccy of the bottle, piccy of the bottle!
Posted by: Adam on May 2, 2005 2:40 PM//names four DIY places in Leamington to which he could have directed Ed with ease.
Coventry??? Fool.
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 8:59 AMWasn't my fault!
Posted by: Ed on May 3, 2005 10:13 AMSurely your overriding instinct for the most efficient path should have led you to yell.com before embarking on a road trip to the concrete Hell that is Cov.
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 5:51 PMYou'd have thought so!
I'm not exactly sure why we ended up there - probably something to do with being set on going to a B&Q I think... :-/
Posted by: Ed on May 3, 2005 5:53 PMAh, you had "B&Q cable clip only" cat5 then. Been there, done that.
Posted by: Joe on May 3, 2005 6:58 PMI object to being accused of being boring for not being there. I was ill with cold-flu. The boringness of my personality is *entirely* co-incidental.
Posted by: Al on May 3, 2005 9:40 PMThere's always fun to be had in Leamington!
Posted by: Sarah Cooper on May 20, 2005 10:24 PM