Mr Zang: May 2006

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Matthew's stag - Newquay May 06

MJB stag - Newquay May 06
Originally uploaded by kieran_saunders.

The weekend started with a phone call from Donna telling everyone that Matthew the stag, had a very bad case of Delhi belly, and might not be able to attend his own event.

I arranged to meet Rupert at Bristol parkway and give him a lift down to the campsite in Newquay for the weekend of “Run to the Sun” or if you had a bit of gaffer tape “RTTS 06”.

We all met in a pub in newquay for a pint to start the weekend off as we mean to continue, and then all drove up to the camp site to see what all the fuss was about.
Friday night was great, a few beers in the “luxury caravan” and off for a night in the town. We were having such a good time that we forgot to have dinner and ended up eating a pasty for tea… not the best way to start a night of beer. So a night ranging from a live folk band to a tent full of pilled up northerners pasted in a flash.

Queue next morning and a hangover from hell, with only 4 hours sleep (sleeping in the kiddy bed did not help)… after bullying Martin and Tim that they really, really wanted to go surfing, we drove down to the beach and slipped on our wet suits. After a ten minute jog and a bit of yoga we all had a practice on our board doing a bit of board boarding in the sea. After ½ an hour or so out we crawled, knackered and cold. We then got told how to “pop up” this looks really easy, do a push up, turn side ways and lead up on to your feet, easy my ass, and that was on the land. Anyway we all managed to get up, even if it was for 5 seconds.

Matthew turned up half way through the lesson, shame that he could not do it as I am sure that he would be very good at it!.

So after the lesson it was back to the site for another round of Stella before going into town for dinner. We finally managed to find some grub in a beer garden of a pub.
Another night of Rock / Cheese and trance came to a halt at 4:30. I was very happy that we were not camping as Luke said that he got back to his tent and found that the music started up again at 6am !!!

A great weekend, we might have to do another one when Matthew is on better form!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Blowing the Cake

Blowing the Cake
Originally uploaded by kieran_saunders.

Eleanor Birthday party in her mums garden.
Message from Eleanor to all who came.

"Thanks everyone for coming to my party yesterday - especially those of you who travelled from as far away as Stroud, Bicester, Frome, Worthing and even Portland! It was wonderful to see you all and I hope you had as good time as I did and I apologise if I didn't get to speak to you for very long - it seemed so manic but I think I managed to at least say 'hello' and 'goodbye' to everyone.

Thanks also to all the gifts that people bought me it was very kind and please forgive me if I don't thank you individually - I hope I did on the day and for those of you who were kind enough to give me vouchers/cash I will be sure to keep you posted as to what contribution they have made to my travel plans.

I had a fantastic day and ate more scones and cake that I care to admit. There was still plenty left over so both mine and Kieran's workplaces will be tucking in today as well.

Finally just want to say a big thanks to my poor long-suffering parents who let all the kids trash the house and all the grown-ups trash the garden! The bathroom is nearly finished in my place and the kitchen is begin ripped out soon so I promise that once it is in a fit state again you can have a raucous party at my place to make up for it!

Have a great Monday everyone and keep an eye on www.mrszang.blogspot.com for the party pix which I will upload at some point this week."