Rob D has come down from Sheffield for the week and is staying at our house. We go to Reading to watch The Meaning Of Life and have a McDonalds. No waitress service, no plates or cutlery, just a cheeseburger in a paper bag and skinny little chips they call "French Fries". And the tables and chairs are bolted to the floor.
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Laz, Perce and me have the day off of our crap jobs and, with Rob, go to The Farmers in Benson where we play pool and drink beer all afternoon. This is reminiscent of our O level study leave which is probably why we have crap jobs.
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Laz is twenty so him, me, Perce, Rob, Vinkie, Hammy and Bondie go for a meal at The Berwick. It's very nice but a bit bloody dear.
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Bones is over from Newbury for the weekend as is soon bragging to Rob how he has the best life of us all: He has his own caravan, an affair with a married woman and a £200 overdraft.
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I somehow am left in charge of Robs kids for ten miutes and Nicky chooses the moment to put a Smarties lid in her mouth. I tell her "open wide" and try to retrieve it and as my fingers go in she bites me. Why is this child always biting me?
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The Plough are selling promtional beer for 40p a pint so we spend the night there. We also get a free round off the new barman who is none other than our old mate Wellsie.
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I have started weight training again even though it's 85p.
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I hve lost three quid at work and I'm £30 overdrawn so I don't think I'll be able to afford a new car or a holiday in Spain next year.
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Mum and dad are touring the coastline of Southern England in a mini bus which is great as it gives me a week of solitude.
I am settling in for the England Denmark game when there is a knock at the door and Laz and Perce invite themselves in with arms full of cans. Then Rob (brother) turns up with no cans.
The game is abysmal and England lose 1-0.
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In Littlemore between the sewage farm and the funny farm there is Minstry Farm Country Club and Disco. The bouncer is reluctant to let us in but we say we've travelled in from Wallingford and he takes pity, (that we're from Wallingford.)
I have my eye on a couple of girls but lose my bottle. Bones gets turned down for a dance which cheers us all up.
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I'm in the Cross Keys with Rob and dad when a man asks old Joe if he has a pay phone. Joe wanders out the back and comes back with an Oxford Mail.
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Annie has had her transfer request granted. Although she is a sweet lady and we are now another person short, at least it means we can swear now.
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Gail's boyfriend Richard has been done for drink driving so I have bought hi green vauxhall viva for £100.
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