The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap

So that was the first big

Weekend of the summer

Starts Thursday as usual

With the canteen quiz and again

No-one wins the big cash prize

Later I do my sound Bloke routine

By approaching Gina's

New boyfriend to say

That he shouldn't feel that

There's any animosity between us

Then I even go and make peace

With her Shouldn't have bothered

Then on Friday night we

Went through to the Arches

There was only one car going

So some of us had to get the train

We got through quite late

Then we went to a pub to take the gear

There was no problems getting in

We saw some others waiting down

The front of the queue so

We skipped in

It was a good night - everyone

Was nutted and I ended up

Dancing with some blonde girl

I thought she had been

Quite pretty until last night when

Matthew informed me that she had

In fact been a pig

When the club finished

We wandered the streets

For a while until we got to

This 24-hour cafe

I didn't like the look of it

So we left and got a taxi

Back to Morag's flat

I couldn't sleep so

I sat about drinking someone else's

Strawberry tonic wine and tried

To keep everyone else up

Then at ten o'clock in the morning

We went downstairs to

Buy some drink

We had intended

To watch the football in the afternoon

But we'd passed out by then

And slept right through it

Awaking to find that England

Had won two-nil

Then we went to get the train

Home and had a few in the

Station bar

We had some stuff left from

The previous night's supplies

So when we got home we decided

To go down to John's indie disco

Same story as Friday

Lots of hugging

Lots of dancing etc etc

I couldn't sleep again

So went to the park

To look at the toon

Taking a detour through

The playpark

To get in we had to climb over

A ten foot steel fence which resulted

In severe bruising of our hands

Legs and groins

But we had a good laugh on the stuff

Especially the tube-slide

Which probably doubles up

As a urinal for drunk teens

Then we walked through the woods

To have a look at the toon

Big disappointment

But the mist on the lake was cool

Sunday afternoon we go up to

John's with a lot of beer in time to

Watch the Simpsons - it was a

Really good episode about love

Always ending in tragedy except

Of course for Marge and Homer

It was quite moving at the end

And to tell you the truth my eyes

Were a bit damp

Then we watched these young girls

In swimsuits have a water

Fight in the street

We went up to the pub about ten

It was busy for a Sunday night

Lots of people we know

Including my first ever girlfriend

Who I still find very attractive

Quite frankly

But I didn't really speak to her

She's probably still a b**ch anyway

Her friend Gillian was there

I had a chat with her

She was still quite pleasant

At the same time I watched Malcolm

Make some terrible attempt to try

And chat up a girl we know called Jo

He made some remark about her

Skirt that was barely there the

Previous night or something

I couldn't sleep again that night

Thanks to some seriously disturbing

Nightmares Matthew says

I should cut down on the cheese

"Went out for the weekend

It lasted for ever high with

Our friends it's officially summer "

"Went out for the weekend

It lasted for ever high with

Our friends it's officially summer "

"Went out for the weekend

It lasted for ever high with

Our friends it's officially summer "

"Went out for the weekend

It lasted for ever high with

Our friends it's officially summer "

I got some sleep eventually

On Monday afternoon

It was a beautiful day

And later that evening Malcolm

Introduced me to the

Power of Merrydown - £1 79 a litre

8 2% - mmmm

Judith and Laura came round later

And we sat in my back garden and drank

Then Matthew came round

And we went up the town

It's officially summer