Last Weekend

As I said before I did a post last Sunday night with what I had been up to over the weekend but it never appeared.

On the Friday I went to Sedgefield (Durham Night on Tour) I tried not to drink too much because I had to get up to go to Glasgow in the morning and really didn't want to be hungover on the bus. A few of the regulars were there, although quite a few couldn't make it. I got there and there was only me and Jim were there. It was also Jims leaving night.

Eventually a few more turned up and Katy, Simon & Mandy arrived. Who I normally talk to on nights out, well I guess I talk to everyone ;-)

Not gonna say too much but I spent most of the night people watching, strange what you pick up on when not drunk. I succeded in not being drunk!!

On the Saturday me, Jay and his dad (Alan) were going to watch Nigel Wright box in Glasgow. We went on the bus with the rest of the Barmy Army about 40 odd I think. It was a good laugh on the way there as some of them are nuts, everyone was passing mobile videos about the bus using bluetooth. People kept sending me them hadn't a clue who from, probably coz my phone name is 'Horny'.

Once we got there it was crap, there was only one bar and it was more of a restaurant than a bar. After 1 pint we decided we'd had enough and about 8 of us went for a taxi to take us to some pubs. The Taxi drivers took us to the Wheatsheaf in Renfrew, we spent an hour or so in there before deciding to find another bar. We wandered along some street and tried a working mans club but it was choca and could hardly get through the door. When we came back out we asked a couple of lasses where to go. They pointed us in the right direction.

We ended up in the Black Bull, when we went through the door it was quite busy and I think half of the people in the bar must of been fishing as they had their gear with them. We got talking to some locals at the bar and had a good laugh with them. One of the reasons we had ended up in there was because it said Karaoke, most of the lads I was with were either in a band or love singing (except me, fog horn comes to mind). The Karaoke didn't start until about 8 and we needed to be back at the arena for 7:30. After a couple of pints we headed back.

We got there about 7:15 and saw the end of some other fight, nothing special. Our seats were quite a long way away but high up so you could see everything. Once the fight time got nearer, Jay and Alan went down to the front right by the ring, as it was empty this early in the night. They waved at me to come down, so I followed them. I think about another 20 lads must of followed me down. As the fight was about to get under way some bloke asked me and Alan if we had tickets, we just said "yes" and ignored them (well we did, but not for front row seats).

There was a load of Scottish lads too our left shouting for the lad Nigel was fighting, so we took up the challenge and out sung them but we were so busy singing the fight started and most of us were looking at the the lads we were shouting at. I just turned my head and saw Nigel knock the other lad down, 2 minutes into the fight. That was it, the fight was over. I think I was one of the few of us to actually see it, everyone else was too busy shouting.

We went back to out seats and the same 8 of us who had gone to the pubs earlier decided to go back again rather than watch some of the other fights. We went back to the Black Bull and met up with the same lads who we saw earlier, I can only remember one of their names "PK".

The Karoake had started, so we moved to the other side of the bar. I think we sort of took the place over, I got talking to a couple next to me, they were a good laugh. I told them it should be a good night, I wasn't wrong. Jay got up and sang a couple of songs, as always he sang "Don't let the sun go down on me" you need to hear this, he is excellent. Most of the others got up and not one of them was bad. Edgey gave a strip show, which put a smile on some of the lasses faces.

We all ended up dancing, Edgey's girlfriend kept trying to get me up. I ended up getting some woman next to me up to dance instead. She was in her late 40's at a guess but seamed to put a smile on her face. One of her mates was laughing at her but I tried to get her up to dance as well but she was too boring :-(

Before we knew it the night was passing away, we had intended to go back to the arena for 10 to watch Amir Khan and Scott Harrison but we were having such a good time we didn't bother. We finally left the pub at midnight but we couldn't get a taxi. About 6 lasses had followed us out of the pub so we were stood talking to them while we tried to get a ride. In the end we deided to walk, somehow we managed to get their at about 12:30 the time the bus was going. It was probably about a 2 mile walk, although we took a shortcut through the shoppping centre.

It was an excellent night, I think I will start cutting this post short. I got back home just after 4:30am. I went more or less straight to sleep but was back up by 9. I ended up going over a friends.

It was one of the best weekends I'd had in a long time, we were invited back to Glasgow next month by the lads in the pub for PKs birthday.