Picture from last night's gig

The Cat Empire. They sound as if they are my kind of band, but not really. They had a couple of songs that I know which were good but the rest were not really my thing. Plus I had to miss the second half of the football. Boo!

Quizzy rascal

Saturday night we were roped into taking part in a charity quiz. It was a great night and we ended up coming second. Our table did win 4 prizes on the raffle though. I won 2 bottles of Biddenden cider so left quite happy.

Some photos from Sonisphere

It's been a little over a week since we all went to Sonisphere and I think I'm still recovering. Excellent fun with great music, friends and beer. Lots of beer.

As a venue I couldn't fault it. 50k  people rather than Reading's 100k plus made all the difference. I didn't need to queue for the toilet our for a beer once.

Pre beer festival beers

A friend who's wedding we went to a couple of weeks ago had a spare beer barrel and a keg of cider left ovet so dropped it round mine before we headed off to a beer festival at my rugby club.

Pretty cheap night as half of the bar men were other players so got loads of free beer on top of the free beer before.

Really?

People will buy anything.

It's going to be a late one

It's 8pm and we still haven't finished. I have, but the team hasn't so I have to hang around just in case.

It'll be all over tomorrow. Thankfully.

Game 2

Won 1
Tsuro, for some reason I've won every game of this I've played (1 game was joint 1st). This game was pretty much luck as we were both down to about 3 cards in the end

Game 1

Won 0.

April kicked my ass at ticket to ride. It's the map German edition, I accidentally ordered that on eBay. Oops!

It's got a few extra rules (which we didn't use) but was good fun.

When will it end?

Thursday at noon. I've been doing longer hours at work recently, the whole team has. We've got a deadline for a Lloyd's capital return and there's been loads of work to get done so 12 hour + days have become a bit of the norm.

I don't mind getting in early and staying in late when there's work to do but some of the team are there just to show face.

Bloody neighbour's cat

That bloody cat came in again this morning (4am), so I've blocked off the cat flap again.  I'm pretty sure that's the one that's ruined the carpets. Fucker!

Microchip cat flap entry system will get ordered today.