I went to Conor's this afternoon and gave Nade a bottle of champagne from my mum for her birthday. "You're only 21 once"
This mindless act of generosity then got me an invite to the afterparty, at Andy's (Nade's boyfriend) that night.

The weather was amazing this afternoon so me, Con, Andy, and Pat (Con's little 7 year old cousin) played football in the front garden. Pat is a little prodigy, he's amazing at football for a 7 year old. When i was that age i was like a girl at football, but he was flickin it over mine and Andy's heads, putting it through our legs, it was incredible.

The weather was still good that night so me and Con(and the spatula from last night) got a lift to Springbank and met up with Dan, Clarke, Rosie and Caferine. Chilled there on the swings for a bit and then walked into the village and got a crate of Kronenburg that we then drank round the back of Iceland. Dan threw the spatula up in the air and it crashed down, making loads of noise so some neighbours came out and shouted, so we decided to move. We went into the next car park and there was a shopping trolley. We still had about a quarter of the crate left, and half a bottle of cider, so we put that in the trolley and started pushing eachother about in the trolley. Caf and Rosie had a plan to stay out longtime but it backfired so they had to get picked up at like 10.30, so it was me, Dan, Con and Clarke for the 3rd night in a row, about to paint the town red.

Wielding spatula and trolley we started walking towards Andy's for this afterparty, and Con did his traditional thing when he saw a gascgoine halman for sale signe. Ripped it out of the ground and put it into the trolley. But it didnt stop there.

With the streets deserted, we were walking round a seriously nice area (tons of footballers live nearby) with a shopping trolley full of beer, a plant pot, two for sale signs, a solar light, a number 2, and several builder's signs. Whenever a car came past we scuttled into the shadows and doorways and everything was fine.

A man walking his dog thought it was really funny, "To be young" he said. Another such man didnt. He must've driven past us in his Bentley or something because this guy chased after us and asked where we were from. Where we got the stuff, so we just made up we'd found it. There was nothing else he could do so he told us to "make yourself scarce, get away from here or i'll get the security patrol on you"

Normally we would've ignored this warning as we only had one main road to cross before we got to Andy's, but none of us wanted ASBOs or anything so we ditched the trolley full of stuff in a dark corner, grabbed the alcohol and spatula and walked on.

We got to Andy's and all was good. Andy was amazed by the spatula story from the previous night, so he rang up and made a ransom call.
"You'll get your precious pizza flipper back for two donner kebabs and a chicken burger... in three minutes" They laughed, and hung up. We can never go back there again..

Nade's birthday had to end with fireworks before everyone left. We had four rockets, and despite my pleas they wouldn't aim them at a massive tree in a distant garden three doors down. It was all done nice and proper and a huge success, until rocket#3. "I dedicate this to you Nade," and that was it. Something was certain to go wrong. There was a moment when the sparks started flying out of the bottom of the rocket, and everyone realised what was going to happen. "Oh... SH!!" BOOM and sparks flew everywhere, over the house, over the fence, at next door, so we decided to stop. Aparently the neighbours were moody and would report us so we had no choice.

We went inside and the elders started reminising about the time that Bowdon Bonfire went wrong about 5-6 years ago, and they had all been in attendance. I'd never heard about this before so it was a wicked story, but a girl lost an eye so its not brilliant really..

We left in a taxi with Sam and Gemma, and got in at about 1. Action-packed to say the least.

More nights like that please!

Im spending today finishing off my Geography coursework thats been outstanding for close to a year. Im not going to the Enemy at HMV afterall. Too tired.

Laters!!