Sunday 30 May 2010

Best laid plans of Rats and Men...

Day 1 - 28th May 2010

Despite months of military style planning there was one thing I hadn't thought about – the Rat factor.

I got the train to Leeds expecting to be picked up by Mark in his shiny new BMW Z4, but no, he turns up in his girlfriends elderly Mazda, which is “very reliable” and “got us all round Belgium” but appears to have developed a “couple of problems” since he last drove it. The brakes have stopped working and the engine revs itself independently of the accelerator pedal. Somehow we limp to his place where he realises that he has left his house key at his girlfriends house. She kindly brings the key round and we get in. A few beers, a nice curry (which involved eating some stupidly hot chillies) and off to bed by 12:30 with a 04:30 start. Terrible nights sleep due to the epileptic otter which is now living in my gut.

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