Barbecues, Car Boot Sales and Maybugs

Lots went on this weekend. It was all a bit up in the air from the start, but it ended up being fun, and we had a laugh. It was supposed to be the big stag weekend, and it totally didn't happened because of the thick shroud of fog that encircled the island for 3 days solid. We had 9 people flying over and not one made it. So that was a bit pants.

Anyway, poor Nick, we had to make sure he didn't get down and it ended up being a great weekend considering. We had people around for drinks Friday night, and went to the White Hart. Got drunk and came home early though after a greasy Chinese takeaway. On Saturday morning I got up at the butt crack of dawn, yuck. I did the whole carboot thing with my Dad and it was completely manic. I started off feeling so, so tired and awful and people were ripping through my boxes of stuff before I could even unpack them. But I came away with £237 which aint bad. Got rid of a load of stuff.

On Sat night we had booked a restaurant for Nick's UK mates but ended up getting a bunch of local friends to come, girls and all and made up the numbers nicely. Da Nellos, which is super expensive so we all just had one course and lots of wine. Then we went drinking and ended up int Club 54 where folks I pole danced very badly for the first and hopefully last time in my life. I have about as much innate aliblity to poledance as a chicken. Nick was trying to get his legs over his head and has pulled the muscles in his arm.

Sunday, slept in PROPERLY for the first time for months. Got up, Nick hung the curtains, then pottered around the classic car show at Saumarez Park, before going to Isla's for one of her legendary barbecues. It rocked. We invented a new version of giant jenga, which involved making the tower in a wheelbarrow and after you moved the piece you had to either rotate the barrow or move it 2 foot. twas hideous. Bit of a drama on the way home, cos I drove and gave 2 girls a lift home. They were in the back of the car and a giant maybug crawled across the neck of one of them. Cue lots of shreiking, me having to do an emergency stop and everyone piling out onto a dark lane at night, still shreiking. It was horrible! Then I had to put the roof down and we searched for this bloody thing for about 10 minutes before we spotted it and then it was down to me, typically, to actually pick it up and remove it from the car. But we made it home in the end.

Monday, took the boat over to Herm with Isla, Chris & Sonia on board. Met up with Sue, Laurie, Matt & Sarah and had another BBQ on Shell Beach. I cooked the food. And got sunburnt on my face, neck and feet. Typical Herm! Nice though, first time this year we've taken the boat out. It was lovely. I feel so lucky to live here and be able to do that.

All in all, a good weekend. And I've got that lady coming round tonight to tell me about the job thing I was saying about last week. We'll see how that goes. No decision has been made.