Man am I feeling the effects of last night. We headed into Manchester to catch Giddy Motors at the Star and Garter, and to have a ‘few’ pints.

The gig was great - we caught the last few songs by the support band (don’t remember their name though), whose vocalist had some kind of Michael Jackson thing going on with a weird hat and just one glove. Whatever, they were pretty good and seemed stoked that a few people had come out to see them.

Giddy Motors played to a crowd of about 30 so it was a really low key gig, but they put on a really good show regardless and played a bunch of tracks off their new album and a few I didn’t recognise. I took a few pictures which became progressively worse as the evil effects of alcohol took their hold on me but some of them turned out OK.
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Jury service ended up being a no-go - basically they only pay around £50 maximum allowance per day, and so if you’re earning well over that and aren’t being paid while you’re away from work then they just discharge you. Which er, was me. I felt like a bit of a twat having to duck out from it (disappointed too) but I can’t really afford to lose all that much over the next two weeks. Ah well.

Today also seems to be the day for bad news. First my mum was really upset earlier, turns out one of her closest friends’ son (same age as me, into similar stuff) was killed on Saturday in a motorcycling accident. He’d just been offered a really good job, life was going great for him etc., and now he’s dead. So she’s upset because obviously her friend is totally distraught, and she’s also freaking because “it could have been me”. I don’t ride a motorbike, but it just goes to show that you never know what can happen.

Secondly a friend of mine from Uni has split up with his long time fiancée - they were due to be married at some point soon, seemed like a fantastic couple and looked really happy together. Seems that wasn’t totally the case, and so they’ve split up just a few days ago and he’s understandably gutted about it.

Bleh. Makes my problems regarding money and other ‘regular’ day to day shit seem pretty damn insignificant really. It could all be a hell of a lot worse.

Woke up to seriously shitty weather this morning and a desire to get out on my bike, so after checking up with Dan to see what it was like in Sheffield and then finding out it was sunny I headed over there for a few hours.
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After weeks and weeks of saying we’d visit Jodrell Bank me and the wonderful Bec finally met up in deepest darkest Cheshire yesterday and made our way over there. First though was the task of finding a pub to grab a couple of pints and something to eat, which turned out to be incredibly difficult seeing as there are almost no pubs to be found and the ones that we did find weren’t open until 12. So after driving round for about 30 mins and getting ourselves lost we settled for a cup of char outside in the sun, killing some time until a pub we’d been recommended (and scoped out) earlier opened its doors.
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