The ache...

Oh the ache. That would from the lack of exercise. I played badminton with JR and am feeling the pain! Usually I’d say he kicked my arse but this time I’ll add that I did make him sweat, run and definitely deserved some Hi-fives for some of my shots! I'll only comment on game 4, when I stole an 11-8 victory from 8-8. It saves me writing about the first 2 games when he only just beat me and the third where he showed me that I was the still a Padawan! Or we could blame the fact that I got his place, in Portslade at 5.30am.

That was 10am Saturday morning after, the Friday before getting the hookup from Flip Flop Benny to watch TOTP (Top Of The Pops) being filmed with Plus and Mojo. Snoop and Pharrell filmed Let's Get Blown, Natalie Imbruglia filmed Shiver and G4 filmed something I don’t care about. Post filming and a few sprizters at Pop Bar, I was dragged to Trap after our iPLUS fuelled dancing tube ride! (Affectionately known as iPLUS after we spent an evening ripping CDs and uploading over a day of hard earned music to Plus's iPod!)

After a night filled with dancing and showing a few young bucks a couple moves on the dance floor, I thought I could only hear the distant sounds of Kebabs with garlic mayo calling softly en-route to Victoria Station, but it was actually the sound of screaming guys running to catch the 4am just about pull out without dropping any garlic mayo! That was the journey to Portslade, bar annoying fact – Dale - the 5am inspector asking for the £12.80 rip off ticket, luckily no fine!

Saturday afternoon was a right off, it was spent dozing on JRs couch after healthy bowl of Corn Flakes and fresh bananas for old time sake and watching the rugby. Saturday evening was movie night; my reliable cinema buddy/best mate Fox, JR, Mary and Sue - Fox’s mate went to see Ocean’s 12 – No, I didn’t fall asleep, but that could be down to the rather stylish cinematography or the slick-ish plot or the amazing vision the stylist had while dressing Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brad and the others. Either way, being the visual creature that I am, I was struck.