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2009-06-22T03:27:00.001-07:00

April 2008

2009-04-19T10:00:00.001-07:00

"Is someone having a bonfire?!"

"That's a pretty massive bonfire!"

"Jesus."

A roof collapsed.

Luckily, it was an abandoned warehouse, and nobody was hurt. It took around 20 fire engines to calm it down, and everyone in the surrounding, heavily-populated area of Narborough Road was evacuated from their homes till 6am. According to the Leicester Mercury: Paul Crumbie, manager of Equity Shoes, which recently went bust, said: “Luckily, we had moved all the expensive and valuable machinery from the side of the building where the fire was.” Insurance, anyone?

To lighten the mood, here's Jason with selotape on his face.

Day out to Foxton Locks with the fam.

2nd March 2009

2009-03-02T09:51:00.001-08:00

A couple of photos I should have had on my last blog. Dom, Owen and Emily make a snowman and snowlady:

Coffee with Isabelle, Naomi, John, Lucy and Neo.

Celebrating Richard's birthday.

We take our new French guitar repairer, Pierre, out to welcome him to the Sheehans clan.

My beautiful, lovely Josh.

Taking Pierre out again.

We thought Joe was leaving, so I was really nice to him for four weeks. It then turns out that he's got a different job in Sheehans. Well done Joe, but I'm now going to resume being horrible to you and arguing about cashing up.

And finally:

I hereby swear to start blogging more frequently...

2009-02-16T06:32:00.000-08:00

Hi, Stevie!

The last few weeks in a few pictures from my phone, as I still don't have a camera to my name. My other news (apart from the news that we dressed up Jason as Gaz yesterday, it's been snowing and snowing and snowing recently, Isabelle is getting fatter and bigger by the day and myself and Josh made models of ourselves from a Wallace and Gromit modelling kit with half of its contents missing) is that Josh and I joined a gym, we're vising his Dad in Spain next month, I'm going to Birmingham and Leeds to visit Laura and Lauren next month and... yep, that's about as much as I can think of. Basically, at the moment all I do is work, work out, go to the pub quiz on a Monday and go to my Russian classes on a Wednesday. I've stopped drinking in the week and am eating shit loads of healthy food. That's about it!

SUMMER

2008-11-04T14:06:00.000-08:00

I've been a massive slacker with updating my blog, so over the next couple of days I shall slowly upload the majority of the pictures from the summer. These are of Italy, and of the new niece, Isabelle.

May 2008

2008-06-03T03:43:00.000-07:00

Mission: Cheer Natalie Up. We head to Mosh.

The Twin was out.

Max wowed us with the most amazing non-stop 20 minute dance routine I have ever had the privelidge of witnessing.

If only I'd have filmed it...

Orange Tree. Nat's still smiling.

We celebrated Big Brother Day with Iwan. Not in celebration of the godforsaken t.v. show, he was about to become a big brother.

Robyn's birthday at La Tasca.

Sophbeck. These guys threw some shapes that neared, but not quite equalled, the wonder of Max's.

Tone couldn't resist a throwdown.

Neither could Jambo.

And neither could Josh.

Ros's leaving party before she goes to Chile for 6 months.

The last days of college.

Boy, am I going to miss Max's chest rug.

And Schmoo's beautiful smile.

And this guy.

A selection of photos since New Years because I'm a shite blogger.

2008-04-04T08:23:00.000-07:00

I started a Polaroid diary (just as I found out that they're phasing Polaroids out... good one, Amber.)

Couldn't fit 6 in the car so Bools opted for the boot.

Fire Engine.

For Mothers Day, Dom decided we should take mum bowling. She was on fire.

March Brighton Beach.

I worked in a Kindergarten for a week with the most AMAZING kids, whom I miss like HELL.

Day-trip to Berlin.

Some night out.

Josh and I visit Lauren and Danway in Leeds, and follow some wasted guy around.

February Brighton Beach.

Caroline's birthday: Natalie bought her a book of Politically Incorrect Jokes. I was mortified, they found it hilarious.

Some night out with Natalie, complete with Rave Taxi and lots of beer spilt over an off-duty Sophbeck bouncer.

Some night out at Panic.

New Years Celebrations 2007/8

Fisheye Fun over the Christmas holidays 2007.

2008-01-03T13:05:00.000-08:00

Brighton Beach - December 1st 2007

2007-12-02T13:10:00.000-08:00

The Beav.

Schmeats and I invented the "nipple wiggle". The hottest new dance-move in town.

Spam has the best hats.

Those lame Quay boys.

"Alright there?"

Sophbeck.

One of my favourite pictures of the year. Look at the passion. He's loving it.

I don't get this window display, but something tells me there's something very wrong about it.

We had a banquet, dining on the finest crud there is around.

Such a good night.

17th November 2007

2007-11-19T14:13:00.000-08:00

Dave's band hit Birmingham.

"Eff off, yeah?"

The Sunflower Lounge

This monstrosity was right above my head and didn't look too secure.

It also dripped in my beer.

Hello, Bronwen.

Let's Bitter Cinema.

Pete drove us to Birmingham. Ta, Pete.

Squat joined me. Squoodsquad times for life.

He's not Weird Dave anymore, he's ROCKSTAR DAVE.

Dave.

This band looked like a bunch of twats, but were actually quite good.

"Ooooh, the weather outside is frightful..."

Windy.

Cold.

Natalie.

14th November 2007

2007-11-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

I came home to find Dom, just hanging out in his batman suit, watching Spongebob Squarepants.

Firebug, with Nick and Milo, to watch Misty's Big Adventure.

MBA were really good, but their gimmick (and I despise bands with gimmicks, and gimmicks in general) was this blue twat with hands all over him. I hated him. Twat.

10th November 2007

2007-11-19T13:39:00.000-08:00

LEEDS.

Can't be bothered to upload them all again, so here's the facebook gallery:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30329&l=63424&id=717472603

Ta da!

Brighton Beach

2007-11-04T10:58:00.000-08:00

Nev/Nathan/Kristine/Swann's house-warming party. Complete with fireworks.

I am officially the worst photographer of fireworks. I was told at least twice not to give up the day job.

A firework went into our little crowd. It was very very scary. THIS scary, infact...

...no wait, THIS scary:

More amazing firework photographs.

"Pretend you've just realised you have the legs of a mule."

"You're a lonely leopard, in a zoo, in a cage, calling out for love and affection."

Nathan.

Taxi.

We love Nev.

"Aww, stop taking photos of me, maaaaan..."

Classy bird.

Natalie: "I'm going to get a tattoo on the back of my eyeballs which you can only see when I'm having a seizure. It'll say 'I'm having a seizure, call 999', in tribal".

Nev and I love Woody.

The Schmee Scream.

"If you take another fookin' photo..."

Haha. Schmeats trying to fend off an admirer. She is actually licking his neck in the photo below.

Josh was there, all smiles.

Apparently this is a girl's worst nightmare.

Natalie and I created Mission Boyfriend, and pretended to be photographers for Brighton Beach, just to take pictures of good-looking men. It's not shallow, it's art. (Haha).

Alright, Beaver?

More possible suitors...

Natalie has stalkerish tendencies and called this one "Argos Boy", because she is a stalker.

The man on the left reminded me that drugs are bad. Very bad.

Some future husbands didn't want to be photographed...

"Iyyerr, Jon."

This guy is the EXACT replica of the New Zealand guy Natalie and myself encountered a couple of months ago. Go back and look. You'll be amazed.

It's not Sophbeck without creepily peeping round from behind the wall.

It's a small world: Max Almond.

This time it was Josh and Harry's turn to admit defeat.

Grumpy Dave was throwing some rather large shapes.

2nd November 2007

2007-11-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

Night at Lansdowne/Time.

Dom showing us his crazily pearly pearly whites.

1st November 2007

2007-11-02T08:43:00.000-07:00

Have you ever seen anything as petrifying as this?

Lansdowne for caffeine.

The Donkey for Natalie's gig. She made this for me.

I know this is really, really disgusting, but it was just about the funniest thing that's happened to me in a million years. All I will say is Natalie was trying to teach me how to spit.

O Tree, where we found my favourite Mr Canning.

Hallowe'en

2007-10-31T16:42:00.001-07:00

Little Dom made an excellent Frankenstein.

O Tree.

Josh paid £5 for this HORRIFYING glove.

Josh's mad photo skills.

Animator or something. It was shit anyway. I left after about 10 minutes.

My Eighteenth Birthday Weekend.

2007-10-29T14:58:00.000-07:00

There are far, far too many photos for me to begin putting on this thing.
Until I get overwhelmingly bored, here are the links to my facebook albums of them:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27590&l=732fc&id=717472603

and

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27594&l=55d00&id=717472603

Voila.

6th October 2007

2007-10-08T04:52:00.000-07:00

2nd installment of Natalie's birthday celebrations: Brighton Beach:

HA HA HA.

Nev is sound. We like Nev.

Who'd have thought bringing out a permanent marker with me could have resulted in such destruction?

I refused to be tagged with another "Quay Love" or "Quay Fo Life" or simply "Quay", so I turned this "QUAY" into a duck saying "QUAX".
Joshy had to take it that one step too far:

I think I'm actually in love with Serious George.

5th October 2007

2007-10-08T04:39:00.000-07:00

First part of Natalie's birthday celebrations: Panic.

Nat was planning a "mad one" and was equipped with Pro Plus.

Everybody loves Panic.

Happy Birthday, Natalie.

4th October 2007

2007-10-08T04:25:00.000-07:00

College fun.

After-college fun in the shape of Back To The Future 3:

2nd October 2007

2007-10-02T14:36:00.000-07:00

Nautical weirdos unite.

Today at college, Natalie turned this frightful mess of an umbrella...
...into a super-trendy poncho! Woah, she could be one of them well cool fashion designers...

I was leaning my hand on my cup of coffee, deep in thought, then I leaned too hard and spilt it everywhere and submerged my whole left thumb in boiling hot caffeinated water.

Dad's birthday treat. (I think Caroline might have a secret evening job that she's never told us about, I'm sure I've seen those arms somewhere before...)

28th September 2007

2007-09-30T02:03:00.000-07:00

Josh is well cool.

As is Ros.

A skip full of chairs.

Soarpoint. I usually despise this place, as it is usually full of wangs, but this time...

...Woody was there!

Swann gave Woody and I a lift to Sumo. When we got there, he demanded (and I had no choice as it was a 3-door car with not much legroom and I was trapped in the back) that we all stay in the car and bounce to "Shake Ya Ass" before even DREAMING about getting out.

The Charlotte for some DnB with these likely lads:

25th September 2007

2007-09-30T02:00:00.000-07:00

Natalie has wooden legs:

22nd September 2007

2007-09-23T07:06:00.000-07:00

Rival Consoles and Sophbeck:

These guys were pretty good.

Spam and Darryl.

This guy blatently believed he was, in fact, a member of Korn.

D's raving vest.

Best moves. Sam, Darryl and me threw shapes like there was no tomorrow.

Ryan is well cool.

Then a brief stop at Quay.

Ryan was being a drama queen and announced that Sam had cut him open.

Yeah, some battle wound you got there, Consoles.

Walking to Sophbeck.

Josh and myself were bowled over my this girl's mad moves.

21st September 2007

2007-09-23T06:17:00.000-07:00

Lethal Bizzle & Gallows at the Charlotte:

There were millions of crazy crowd-surfers.

"I have tattoos and I'm well coooool"

He joined in the crowd-surfing. This is his sweaty back right above my head.

He went and mingled with the crowd.

Panic:

Sam and his boyfriend were there.

Josh was well happy to see me.

Ha! Caught!

28th August 2007

2007-08-31T13:45:00.000-07:00

Check out my mean window display:

Line-clean at Lansdowne.

Danway was being a pretentious wanker and kept taking photos in sepia.

We drew stuff.

Danway's hat was fabsamillion. And so so soft.

Nick's boyband pose.

Wrestling for control of the sound sytem.

27th August 2007

2007-08-31T13:29:00.000-07:00

Lunch at Lanshowne with Ros.

The ubiquitous lego building.

Josh was at Vicky.

Old Horse:

Watching Izzy and Sophie with the Italian Stallion and the like.

25th August 2007

2007-08-31T13:00:00.000-07:00

Jack's Last Day At Sheehan's Do/Jason's Birthday

Time:

Lansdowne:

Jack was eager for Nick to show everyone his new swanky shoes... made out of cows.

Is it just me or does Gaz look like he has a prosthetic arm?

An emotional farewell.

22nd August 2007

2007-08-22T05:16:00.000-07:00

Fanclub.

Some moron punched Paul.

Lock-in at Lansdowne. I told Danway to act happy.

The love.

20th August 2007

2007-08-22T04:58:00.000-07:00

We missed the bus into town so we went and played on the swings.

Lansdowne for Joe's birthday (did you know he's 25?!)

Back to Ella's for a party.

We did a bad and broke the swing-bench.

Just before Ros and I streaked accross the garden.

19th August 2007

2007-08-20T02:22:00.000-07:00

Dave, Alec, Lauren and Ros came and hung out with me at my house. We watched Drop Dead Fred.

Dave attempted this trick shot on the mini-snooker table about 20 times, then announced that there was going to be "one last desperate attempt"... and he nailed it. I've filmed all the attempts and the "last desperate" one, but they're large, so you'll just have to watch this space. This is him celebrating anyway:

18th August 2007 - Zuli's 18th

2007-08-19T20:15:00.000-07:00

The Birthday Girl.

Out. Of. My. Tree.

13th August 2007

2007-08-19T20:14:00.001-07:00

11th-12th August (Summer Sundae)

2007-08-19T19:58:00.000-07:00

Work:

Summer Sundae: Martha Wainwright was fucking amazing.

Sophbeck: AGAIN not drinking.
Some girl had tissue on the bottom of her shoe for ages.

Nathan was cool and gave us a lift home.

Sunday: This squirrel was a treat.

Natalie played and she was fabsamillion.

Sea Sick Steve: He was mind-blowing.

10th August 2007

2007-08-19T19:41:00.000-07:00

Time:

Sis:

Sophbeck. Bear in mind, I was on water all night, stupidly sober, and having to hang out with these lary lasses...

Just after Natalie had fallen into the bouncer:

8th August 2007

2007-08-19T18:53:00.000-07:00

Dog sick.

Dickon's snazzy boots.

Hahahaha. Written in eyeliner in the Firebug toilets. No joke.
Jim was out of his tree. This is him playing peek-a-boo.

6th August 2007

2007-08-19T18:41:00.000-07:00

Rounders:

Old Horse:

Lock-in at Lansedowne:

5th August 2007

2007-08-19T18:34:00.000-07:00

Holiday In France Part 1

2007-08-19T11:59:00.000-07:00

Holiday In France Part 2

2007-08-19T11:05:00.000-07:00

20th July 2007

2007-07-21T12:58:00.001-07:00

As a "bon voyage" before I trot off to France, me, Natalie, Caroline and Laura went to Panic. There are some HORRENDOUS pictures of me. I fear that I shall remain a spinster forever for people might think I actually look like this all the time.

Natalie's a wang. She thinks that she needs a pash over her head, an umbrella AND a bus shelter to protect her from the rain, any less and she'd be drenched. She loved my tap dancing though, hey Squancey?

Mmmm. Bill-board Man.

"Cheerrsscchh mmaayyyttee"

I hope this was someone lovingly sweeping Liv's hair behind her ear in a loving way instead of someone smashing her in the face.

"That's deep, man."

Throwing some shapes with Woody.

Scrumptious.

Some girl fell over and it was funny.

I couldn't quite manage to suck the plastic glass in enough so that it would stay on my face without the aid of my hands. It was too big, and I ended up looking like this:

AU REVOIR!

17th July 2007

2007-07-21T12:53:00.000-07:00

Stevie and I "hit town" and it was completely dead. We went to fanclub and that was full of losers. But we still had a whale of a time! I even got treated to a foot massage in O4...

Alfie is my most favourite dog in the world.

The Family Beeby.

13th July 2007

2007-07-16T04:06:00.000-07:00

NATALIE'S GIG AT "THE BLACKSMITH'S ARMS" AND AN ALL-NIGHTER AT SOPHBECK

Sophbeck.

Yum.

Caroline's CharleyfromBigBrother face. It made me howl.

These guys were a laugh.

Outside... it was daylight.

McDonalds at 6 o'clock in the morning. Please don't think less of me. We were desperate...

...or just very drunk.

Nat couldn't keep her eyes open.

Sandwich man!

I then had to wait in town till 9 o'clock till "Shoe Zone" opened and I could get some cheap plimmies so I didn't have to go to work straight away in my red heels. I was successful and went to work and felt like death. Came home, had 3 hours kip and went straight back out again to Time, the Sophbeck until 5. You could say I'm "hardcore". I'd say I'm pretty fucking stupid.

12th July 2007

2007-07-13T03:23:00.000-07:00

NATALIE'S GIG AT SUMO

The Bish and Caroline.

The Mead and Kezia. Mead wouldn't keep his head still...

So flash it was:

THE BISH.

Squatalie had more important rock-star things to do that hang out with me.

Check out my crazy thumb

Funeral a.k.a Ed.

Nat psyching herself up for the showdown.

"No... he didn't!"

"Oh god! No!"

"I can stretch my face just as much as you, amber"

Mead found the "bell-end lamp" funny.

13th March

2007-03-13T09:34:00.000-07:00

Tom and Joe brought me and the other Tom some chocolate Easter chickens back from Sainsbury's to cheer us all up. There was my chick...
Tom's chick...

And their mother and father were very proud of them...

They fell in love and had children...

And everything was all sunshine and rainbows until...

60%BearMan appeared!

Their chick children were to suffer as well...

And all those who witnessed the horrors of 60%BearMan...

It was a sad day today.

12th March

2007-03-13T09:25:00.000-07:00

18th Century David Cameron anyone?

I got a bit carried away with the excitement of the fire alarm going off and making my coat into a cape that I had a little accident with my tea.

False advertising:

10th March

2007-03-11T12:29:00.000-07:00

I "had" to get out of the house, so met Laura and her charming boyfriend, Sean, for a drink or two at Firefly/bug.
Then off to Cafe Bruxelles where there was a whole floor of people I knew underneath me and I didn't even realise it...

I am very ashamed to say that that is me on a table, dancing. In my defense, it was not my idea and I got off straight away.

Then off to Nomad's where there was yet another party and another floor of people I hadn't seen in a while. This included Big Pinky and Big Mead a.k.a Tom Hindley and Tom Mead (and Tom Jones behind them).

We ended up playing that kareoke playstation game. That's always a hoot.
"Yooorr... myyyy lurrvveegghhh...myy dahhhllinn...." A suprisngly tuneful bunch.

9th March

2007-03-11T12:15:00.000-07:00

My sister's pre-birthday celebration with her old workmates. Hogshead first...

Then Jongleurs

With a "disco" at the end...

"Y"
"M"
"C"
"A"

2nd March

2007-03-06T11:45:00.000-08:00

The dreaded Oddyssey...

"If you don't get my out of here right now, I'll knock you out."

Mosh. All of us feeling a little sweaty.

1st March

2007-03-06T11:43:00.000-08:00

Look what I won in the Charity Concert raffle!

19th February

2007-03-01T09:07:00.000-08:00

23rd February

2007-03-01T07:57:00.000-08:00

METRONOMY AT THE CHARLOTTE.

22nd February

2007-03-01T07:52:00.000-08:00

Gino's crazy wife - well, what we envisage her to look like.
Smeats cracking his fingers against the bus window.

17th February

2007-03-01T07:44:00.000-08:00

Loaded Dog and Drum n Bass night at Leicester Uni.

3RD REICH TRIP - Day 9

2007-03-01T07:19:00.000-08:00

3RD REICH TRIP - Day 8

2007-02-26T12:48:00.000-08:00