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5 September 2006

Happy Birthday to me!! I am 26 today and feeling very much wiser for it! In order to make this day special i got ready for work and donned a wonderbra instead of my maternity one. I also put on full make up and perfume! Wow! Beats any piss up, let me tell you!! By the end of the day though i was bitterly regretting my choice of bra. It was digging in and the weight of my enormous heaving busoms was making me very uncomfortable (please note the sarcasm). I am very upset with my boobs at the moment!  All of my pregnancy books tell me that my breasts will be feeling incredibly large and full and will have increased dramatically in size. These are lies! If there was one thing i was looking forward to during this pregnancy it was the boobs! I was going to take pictures to remember them by and everything! Just my luck they havent changed a bit except to get veiny - pah! I look like an AA road map instead of Pamela bloomin Anderson!

Anyhoo! I was looking at previous belly photos they made me giggle. I'll show you what i mean:

These are pics of my belly on weeks 5, 15, 25 & 35 (left to right). I cannot BELIEVE i thought i was big at 15 weeks!! I was tiny!! Check out the massive belly on me now! It's no wonder i'm having trouble getting about!

4 September 2006

I went for my scan today and everything is mint! Oberon is weighing in at approximately 6.5lbs already, which is slightly on the large side for me to be comfortable with. I have a solution though - i shall take up smoking to stunt his growth! Just kidding! My placenta has moved up away from my cervix so i am action all stations for a vaginal birth! (Mum hates that word and Scott giggles at it!) Vaginal, vaginal, vaginal! He he he! I bet I wont be bloomin giggling!

We asked if they could check that it was still a boy and the scan lady said definately yes. She showed us his testicles at first and said that she couldn't see his willy at the moment. Scott gasped so she had another look and sure enough it was there dangling away!

I got another picture and he looks amazing on it. You can see his profile really well and he looks like a person, a real baby!

3 September 2006

Last night was cool! I went for a meal with the ladies to celebrate my birthday. I cant believe i'm nearly 26 years old - it's crazy! Now i'm almost 30 - urgh! The worst part about it is that my boss actually thought i was 30 already! I need to start wearing make up for work! The meal we had was gorgeous. We went to Capri and i had a calzone. The only thing was it was HUGE and Oberon is so far up in my ribs i cant eat much in one sitting so i left more than i ate. We went for a drink afterwards, but i was at home and tucked up in bed by 10.20pm. No more Kans for me for a while!

14 August 2006

My shower was awesome! I have pictures to show you!

I got some fab gifts and Jennie and Kirsten did an excellent job of hosting. There was loads of food and games and i felt really special, which was lovely!  By the end of it though i was exhausted!

13 August 2006

It was my friend Kari's birthday this week, so we went out for a meal to celebrate on Friday night. We went for an indian and it was lovely!! I had chicken tikka balti and it didnt give me heartburn! Yey! Everyone else apart from Kari and i were drinking, which was a bit pants, but i'm used to that now. Kari is still getting used to the no alcohol thing being newly preggo and all!

Last night we went to Jacobs house cause it was his birthday too this week! Birthdays ahoy! He was having a party and it was nice to see everyone, but i got tired and we left at 10pm. Once upon a time we would have been one of the last people to leave the next day, but alas not anymore!

The picture on the left is of me and Kari, but dont ask what i'm belly laughing at! The one on the left is of Swiv and Marek dancing at Jacobs party. Marek looks like he's really feeling the music! Ha ha!

The bestest news is that it's my baby shower today!! I am soooo excited!! I know they're normally an American thing, but my friends offered to throw me one and i think they're a really nice idea, so it's today! Yey!!

9 August 2006

Leaky boobs suck! I’ve been wearing attractive breast pads for ages now and nothing was leaking so the first day I stopped using them I get a huge boob leak through my top! Now I have to start wearing them again, and I get the feeling that this is now ‘it’ for the next umpteen months until I stop nursing. Ho hum! On a funny note I have ones that don’t have sticky tape on them and they move about a lot. I looked down the other day at work and I was wearing a slightly sheer top. Through it I could see my sexy black maternity bra with two stark white crescent shapes of boob pads sticking out over the top! He he! I don’t know if anyone saw or not!

I’ve got my gestational diabetes test on Monday. I’m sure I’ll be fine though cause Dad tested my blood sugar and it was 5.9, which is normal.

Today I worked out that I have 16 more working days left before maternity leave. 16 more get-ups to go!! Then as someone at work pointed out while I was in the middle of my ‘gloating dance’ it will be three / four / five get ups per night!! Pah! I’m looking forward to it really!

I’ve started to read to Oberon. Last night I read part of Graham Masterton’s ‘Burial’. It’s a book I’m reading at the moment about malevolent ghosts and poltergeists etc. I’m sure it’s not really ‘baby’ material, but I read it with a soothing voice. Now, I don’t know whether it was just coincidence or not, but as I read and stroked my belly Oberon was still. When I stopped reading (cause I get tired of reading out loud – it takes so much longer!) he started to move about, so I started reading again and he became still again. Then I stopped again and he moved again. It was very weird. I like to think that I was comforting him and he stopped to listen to me, maybe it’s not true, but I’m going to think it anyway!!

4 August 2006.

I went to the midwife today for my check up. Everything is fine. Oberon is coming along nicely! There was a student midwife there who filled out my notes and took my blood pressure etc. She said that my notes were the old ones. I wonder why I didn’t get shiny green ones… Anyway, she tested my wee for whatever as usual and then she gave me it back! She gave me my wee back! I was like, okaaaaay, I’ll just put that back into my bag… Apparently it’s right though. They don’t throw it away like they usually do at Goole they give you it back. I asked Monika when I got back to work. She was there with lil baby Kate. She looks so much like Chris, and she’s so cute and tiny!

Okay, I digress (I’ve always wanted to use that word). I got my tummy felt and she told me where Oberon is lying. Yey!! He is head down and his back runs along the left of my belly as I look down. His bum is just to the top right of my belly button. When I told Scott he asked if that knowledge will stop me pressing him as much and I said of course not! I’ll just be rubbing him going, “Awwww, lil baby bum!” The midwife said that they will need to do a glucose intolerance test on me with my Dad being diabetic. She also said that I should have gone for it at 26 weeks and it’s weird that I didn’t. Thanks Goole midwife! I will find out more about that on Monday.

When I got home tonight I tried to film Oberon cause he was moving LOADS! He does massive wriggles and pushes out from all sides at once, it’s mad! Of course once I had the camera trained on my belly he was still and I couldn’t coax him to move no matter what. I think he knew what he was doing too cause every time I shut the camera off he would have a mini jamboree. I could just imagine him chuckling to himself. Is this a sign of things to come I wonder…?

Latest on the house is that the mortgage company are slapping a retainer of £2500 onto the mortgage and the work has to be completed before we complete on the property. This means that we have to exchange contracts to prove that we are still having the house and do the work before moving in. The mortgage company will them come and inspect the work and when it’s signed off we will get our retainer back. If I could offer once piece of advice to a pregnant couple it would be this – DO NOT MOVE HOUSE!! It’s been a nightmare! It was supposed to be easy and straightforward. We are in a great position. 1. Fast sale on our house cause the buyer is a divorcee. 2. Easy finance because we only need 50% mortgage. 3. Fast move into new house cause it was rented and is now empty. What went wrong?!

Okay, I don’t mind when we move into this house <fist in mouth> just as long as it is well before Oberon arrives! I only have nine weeks to go and I’m starting to panic (just a little bit!)

2 August 2006

I had a panic on today about my blood results!! The midwife phoned mum and dads house and spoke to mum, but couldn’t tell her the actual results. Mum phoned me and said that I needed to call the midwife back straight away. Of course I was worried as hell, cause they only call you if there’s a problem! I couldn’t get hold of the midwife and no one could help me on the other number I called. I had visions of them telling me that my blood says that my baby is a mutant or something. When I finally spoke to the midwife she explained that my iron levels had dropped from 13 to 10 and so I should take supplements. Phew! The reason she couldn’t say anything to Mum is of course client confidentiality, but she also said that she didn’t know if mum was aware I am pregnant. He he! She obviously hasn’t seen me! I’m a human blimp! I can just imagine Mum eyeing me up suspiciously and me trying to tell her it was just a few extra pounds!

1 August 2006

I should have heard back from the mortgage company about whether they are putting a retainer on the mortgage and how much for. They haven’t got back to the Financial Advisers yet and I need to know!!

14 July 2006

I was at the midwifes today and I forgot to take my sample with me!! I realised when I was at work and had to do it into a water bottle. He he! When I passed her it she didn’t even flinch. She must see it all the time! Everything is fine and dandy, nothing to report!

Urgh! We have issues with the house that we are buying. To cut a long story short there was a loft conversion and it is crap. It’s not been done correctly and whoever’s done it has cut out some major supports – duh! We have had a structural survey done and he recommended that the supports are put back in and splints put onto the timber where it’s split. It will mean loosing that room altogether, which is a pain since it was sold as three beds with attic room, but we still want the house. It was also noted that the flexible flue for the gas fire is draped across the wooden timbers of the roof – duh again! I don’t need to be a health and safety expert to know that’s completely wrong!

Soooo… now we have to get some quotes for the work to fix it and send them to the mortgage company. They may put a retainer on the mortgage. Nice!

7 July 2006

The house sale completed today. Scott and I have been moving things into storage all week and we are now officially living back at our parents. I’m at my mum and dads and he is at his. It does seem weird not being together all the time, but we are so busy with different things for the house that we haven’t really noticed what it’s been like yet. I suppose when things quiet down it will be like we’re dating again, except I’m pregnant. I wonder if the neighbors know why I’ve moved back in. Maybe they are gossiping about me being dumped while up the duff and being forced to live back at home. He he! I hope they are, that would be funny!

5 June 2006

See Scotts 30th 1 and Scotts 30th 2 for pictures of the day!

27 May 2006

It looks like things are going well with the selling and buying of our house! I dont want to get too excited cause i know that things can still fall through at this stage. Buuuuut... YEY! We sold ours for 2K short of the asking price, which we were pleased with.  After some searching we have found a house to move into in Brayton, this is it: http://212.50.188.105/cgi-win/vebra.cgi?details1?src=vebra&PropertyCode=1428001/PARKG/11999/2.  After some to'ing and fro'ing the seller finally accepted our offer.  There is a lot to do in the house, but we should be able to just get most of it done pretty much straight away. The kitchen needs doing and the ceilings on the first floor need replastering mainly.  It needs a new bathroom too, but that could probably wait a bit.  I'm just excited that we've found somewhere!!

Oberon was having a party in my belly while i was in the bath this morning! I could feel him rolling around and when i looked down my belly was all moving angles, very strange!  I thought about calling Scott in to see, but he would probably have been sat there for about 30 minutes waiting to see it.  He has felt him kick from the outside now though. I poked him for a bit to wake him up and then he sat with his hand on me for a while.

Scott went to give me a hug yesterday and collapsed in a fit of laughter cause he bumped into my belly first!! Yeah, moment over! LOL!

25 May 2006

I saw Bean move!!  I was watching TV (Big Brother) and i felt him squirming about a lot, so i took my hand off my belly and it moved in a huge wierd lump!! Yey!!!  Yey Yey Yey!!

22 May 2006

We went for the 'big scan' today. Everything is looking good! We saw the arms and legs, feet and hands, heart beating away, kidneys, brain and all that stuff.  The head is measuring at 21-22 weeks, which is why i'm guessing i'm so big. Bean is growing well! The only slight problem is that my placenta is low down on the front, but they said nine times out of ten it will move up anyway. To find out though i have to have another scan at 35 weeks. So i go for that the day before my birthday!  The worst case scenario is that the placenta isnt far enough away from my cervix and i might have to consider a c-section, but that's quite unlikely.

The scan was the most amazing thing! We could see the four chambers of the heart as it was beating and the little feet with so much detail.  The thigh bones measure 3cm! Cute!  I could see everything quite well as the technician pointed it out, but afterwards Scott said it looked like a load of "Bleblebleble" to him. Tsk!

I had to wee in a jar again and i'm getting used to it now. You watch - i'll just get used to that and then they'll start poking around in me nether regions!! Ha! 

We found out the sex of Bean and it turns out that mothers intuition was right all along. We are having a BOY!!! Yey Team Blue!!  We saw his willy on the scan picture! The technician said that they sometimes get it wrong, but she thinks it's a boy. If it is a girl she's got some worrying looking growth between her legs anyway!! I am completely chuffed to bits with our son (our son!!) and so is Scott. The only thing is that we had LOADS of girl names, but we are struggling with boys names! We have five baby books and we cannot agree on one single name! Scott likes more traditional, old style names and i prefer more modern names. This is going to be hard!

Here are some pictures from today.  The first one is of him looking down and curled up. You can see his spine, chest, legs and head.

The second picture is a head-on view. You can see his eye sockets, nose and mouth and a bit of his chest to the right.

When we were having the scan Bean had his arms up around his face. Then he moved them and did a huge yawn! It's was so lovely to see. It made it seem more real i think. That there's a real baby boy in there doing real person things like yawning!

One more thing to add - I was being real pleased with myself and smug about the fact that i havent put on any weight yet.  I even lost a pound the other week. Well, i got on the scales yesterday and i have put on 5lbs in one week!! One week!! I had just eaten a huge portion of treacle sponge and custard though! There's at least 2lb there! (Yeah, right Sarah - you just keep telling yourself that!)

20 May 2006

Okay, i have totally been told off by Val today for not updating my site (by the way i totally LOVE her!!) Yeah - it's not a banner, but it's close enough! LOL!

I went to my midwife appointment the other week and she felt my belly and told me that my uterus is the right size for how many weeks i am. My blood tests all came back good and all is well. She said i'm an easy patient, so lets hope it stays that way (touch wood).

Bean is poking me a lot more now and he seems to have waking and sleeping times. He pokes me a lot around midday and again at around 8.30 to 9.30pm.  I am still very tired, but other than that i'm feeling great! I went to a do with Scott last night and i didnt get home 'til 1am, so i slept through until 11.30am. Laaaazy!

It's the BIG scan on Monday and i am so excited. I havent been this excited about anything is ages! I cant wait to find out if it's a Jimmy or a Jimima (as Dad says).

Sorry this is a bit of a half arsed update. I'll do better on Monday i promise!! 

25 April 2006

We've got some more prezzies!! Mum has given me a hoodie she knitted and a cardie her friend knitted for me. She also gave me a crocheted shawl she had made when i was a baby - how cool is that!!  Sally called me the other day and told me she's bought a play mat thingy. It's Winnie The Pooh and it has dangling Winnie, Tigger, Eyore and Piglet!! Yey!!  Scotts Mum gave us some clothes too the other day. Gosh we are spoiled! I love it!

I am struggling to find something to wear for the works do in June. I also have two weddings to go to that i need a dress for! I've tried every single shop ever and Ebay and all the online shops. The only dresses i like are from Formes. One is £150 and the other is £135. I'll just have to sell some stuff on Ebay to get them. I need to look nice dammit!

There's still no joy on the house selling front. We've had viewers, but no offers yet. Oh well, it's only been about 4 weeks so there's time yet - buy it!! Here it is for those nosy readers: http://212.50.188.105/cgi-win/vebra.cgi?details1?src=vebra&PropertyCode=1519002/RIVER/11089/2

24 April 2006

I definately felt it move this time! I was laying in bed last night and i felt a tiny kneeding in my belly from the inside! It's crazy!! Completely crazy!!

17 April 2006

Went into town with the girls last night. I had a glass of white wine and lemonade at 6pm and i was sloshed! I didnt have anything else though and was at home tucked up in bed for midnight. Ho hum...

14 April 2006

I think, THINK I may have felt Bean last night. I'm not too sure though. I was lying in bed just falling asleep and i felt a pop in my belly where he is on the left side. I tried to feel something again and couldnt really. I could feel 'stuff', but not anything like that. It still probably wasn't, and i can't be sure.  Normally when i go to bed i try to feel him. I lie still and concentrate, but dont get anything. Last night i was so tired i just started to sleep straight away and felt something, but i wasnt concentrating enough to know for definate whether it was him.  I'm hoping it wasn't just a trump brewing.  I wasnt windy (for a change).

He's definately moving about in there cause i can hear loads of random whooping and whooshing noises on the doppler when he moves across the sound wave thingy. I just cant wait until he's keeping me awake kicking me in the ribs all night. I think i'll just happily lay enthralled.

Nothing else to report really. My belly is getting bigger and my spots seem to be going away. Now, that could be the second trimester kicking in or it could be the £80 worth of Virgin Vie creams i bought at Sally's party.  I'm hoping it's the creams otherwise they would have been a right royal waste of money!

Bean will be 10cm long this week (head to bum).

4 April 2006

Today i learned that the white bit round Beans mouth is not a tash and beard, but it's teeth. The teeth in his head! Mad!

3 April 2006

Happy Scan Day!! Today we went to York hospital for my dating scan and to talk about the triple test. We have decided to take the triple test, which tests for the likleyhood of us carrying a downs baby.  We arent going to worry about the results for now because even without the bloods i only have a one in 1200 chance. I will go for the blood taking for that test in a couple of weeks. 

I had my booking in bloods taken today and they took four vials from me. I feel all bruised in my arm too. It wasnt as bad however as the woman in the chair next to me! The young guy doing it kept apologising to her and stopping to look more closely at her arm. I bet she was black and blue when he'd finished with her!

The scan showed that i am not as far along as 14 weeks like i would have been going from my last period, but i suspected that because my cycles were very long. My new due date is 7th October 2006, so i'm well in for having a pumpkin patch kid! Bean measured 7cm and in one of the pictures seems to be sporting a rather attractive white tash and beard. Perhaps he will become a wizard... or is that my Dads genes being carried forth?

It's all a bit mad to think that i have a person growing in my belly and in a couple of months Scott and I will be responsible for raising that person and teaching them how to behave and EVERYTHING!

Here are my pictures. They are quite big, but you get to see bean properly that way:

1 April 2006

Went shopping with Mum today to Monks Cross. I had a nice afternoon and bought some cool stuff. I got a short cardi that i can wear over my bump through Summer and a stripy white and blue top. I got a necklace too.

Oooh I almost forgot! I got the most amazing sexy maternity bras! They are just like training bras that you get when you are twelve with full cotton cups, no underwiring and thick straps. Mmmm mmmm! Scott will NOT be able to keep his hand off! He he!

30 March 2006

I had the strangest dream last night! I dreamed that i went for my scan and the baby had a willy! I could see it clearly on the screen in between it's little legs! It must be a sign so i'm going to refer to Bean as a he from now on until this is maybe disproved at the twenty weeks scan (or not)!

26 March 2006

Today is Mothers Day! Mum, Dad, Sally and I went to The Castle at Cawood for Sunday Dinner. Mmmmm.... Sunday dinner.... It was really nice, as usual. I got Mum a ticket to see Colin Fry at The Grand Opera House in York. Sally got her a cute little Eyore teddy that says "Mummy" and a voucher for her beauticians.  It was also Mum and Dads 29 year wedding anniversary. Yey for them for being married still, and still in love. :oD

Yesterday i went shopping for maternity clothes and bought some black trousers for work, some blue jeans, a yellow vest top, a red top with white polka dots on and a cute t-shirt that has a picture of a cupcake on it with "Bun In The Oven" written on it. It's great to finally have clothes that fit me! I was getting fed up of walking around in undone trousers. I dont quite fill the maternity stuff yet, but it's definately a lot easier to wear!

I also got a doppler yesterday - YEY! It's a device that sends out soundwaves, which bounce back to make a noise through a speaker.  You use it to listen to your baby's heartbeat. I heard Bean for the first time yesterday and i cried! Scott came and kissed my belly. He's so sweet! I managed to record it on my phone today so that i could put it on here.  So, here it is...

Okay. I cant work out how to embed this cause html doesnt seem to work on here, so here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ko2rtngoH0

22 March 2006

I'm approaching the second trimester and i cant wait! I've got my scan booked for 3rd April and i'm all excited, yet nervous at the same time.  I had a horrid dream the other night where i went for my scan and my friend was doing it for me. She measured my gestational sac and said that it was too small for the amount of weeks i am pregnant. She then said "I'm really sorry you have foetus fossilisation syndrome!" I was gutted. My foetus has died and fossilised weeks ago. I woke up crying and it took ages to realise it wasnt real. The good side of going for my scan late - i'll be 14 weeks - is that bean will be bigger, so i guess there'll be more to see.

I ate four packets of Pickled Onion Space Raiders today. I love them! I was working late and starving and before i knew what i was doing i had gone to Farmfoods, bought a pack of fifteen and eaten four of them!  Scott wants me to eat more veg, but it's just a case of eat what i fancy when i fancy it cause i have absolutely no appetite whatsoever. I just dont fancy things, especially not veg! Yuk!  I normally like veggies, just not now...

My belly has got bigger too (no it's not cause of all the crisps i've been eating you cheeky sod!) Here's a picture for your amusement:

The baby is still tucked safely away in my pelvis according to the books, so i dont know why i look so big. As soon as i eat i balloon and i cant suck it in.  God knows what i'll be like when it's all arms and legs in there!  I probably just need a good poo! :D

11 March 2006

I went for a meal last night with Scotts family for his sisters birthday. We went to Capri, an Italian in Selby.  It was nice too.  Afterwards i met Jennie, Lauren & Emma in town for a drink cause i havent been up for ages, being up the duff and all.  I actually had a really good night. It was wierd because if i've been in town before and not drinking it's normally been because i was just driving, but this time because i simply couldnt drink i had a great time!  Everyone was so funny in Kans, the people watching was brilliant! My belly has never been rubbed and poked so much in my life! I felt a bit self-conscious though, because obviously my friends knew i'm pregnant, but everyone else dont. So i was sure people were looking at me and thinking "bloody hell Sarah's put some weight on!"  Jennie kindly reminded me that the important people knew though and that's all that matters, she's so sweet! Speaking of Aunty Jennie!  She was really excited - even more so because she was drunk and giggly.  The boys didnt really know what to make of the information and possibly found the idea quite wierd, they certainly weren't quite as excited as the ladies, but then that's cause they're boys!  Memo to self - get some bloody maternity clothes! I'm not quite big enough to warrent them yet properly, but i was wearing my jeans and a top yesterday and i felt that i looked like a 'confident fat lass' as Scott would say.  My jeans are low rise so that was okay, they fit underneath my bloat.  But my slightly too short top kept riding up and showing my belly and love handles making me look like a confident fat lass. You will have seen the sort - girls who are a bit overweight, but arent bothered about wearing low rise jeans and short tops to expose their wobbly bits. Look in a mirror love!!  Where are your friends?!?! Why dont they tell you?! Ahem...

19 February 2006

I am starting to get a belly!!!  I am really sad and take weekly photos of my growing tum so that i can track what it looks like. What i've read says that the uterus lining is incredibly thick right now and so my clothes may begin to feel tight - too right they do! I just thought i was a bit of a porker, but this is normal apparently.  Although my bean is still only about 1.6cm big my belly is growing! Yey! I'll have to start lovingly rubbing it in public so that people dont just think i've eaten too many pies.  Here's the pictures anyway:

Week 5, 6, 7 & 8 (left to right)

15 February 2006

I registered at Snaith doctors today and booked in for my first appointment with the midwife.  I had to take my wee in a jar - isnt it embarrasing taking a wee sample.  No? Just me? okay...

I am really looking forward to feeling more pregnant than i am now. I dont feel too sick, although i have had a couple of quite nauscious days to date.  I woke up at midnight the other night and felt like i was about to throw up. I got up and rushed into the toilet only to dry heave a couple of times. Strange. It has been worse on a night for me though, rather than during the day or on a morning.  Morning sickness doesnt quite cover what i get...

Most of all though, my boobs feel like they have been punched loads! They are the most painful things in the world.  Most of the time, if it weren't for my sore boobies i wouldnt really feel pregnant at all.

4 February 2006

I guess the most exciting news i have is that i'm pregnant!!  After months of trying we finally have our little bean.  I'm just worried now about all kinds of things from miscarrage, to abnormalities, to God knows what  - and i'm told it doesnt end there!!  I guess this means i will be worrying constantly until the day i die.  Ho hum, i chose this!

Scott is excited, as well as crapping himself.  He's being really sweet and putting up with my moods and checking up on me all the time.  He'll be a good Dad.

January 2006

On New Years Eve we went to Gatecrasher in Leeds.  It was a Hed Kandi night so it was awesome!  Lynzi came down with her boyfriend and his friend and we made a whole weekend of it.  Guy came from Market Weighton and Jacob from Selby.  Jim drove up from Manchester and met us at the hotel.  We stayed in a hotel in Leeds City Centre and got there early so we could start drinking on New Years Eve afternoon.  We spent ages getting ready and went out to find that we couldn’t get in any of the pubs cause they were ticket only.  We ended up in this old man head’s pub opposite the club.  It’s weird when it’s like that cause everyone was drinking and having a laugh, but mainly just waiting to get into the club.

When we got in finally (after some initial trouble on the door with Jim’s clothes) the club was great!  I remember going there when it used to be Uropa and it was nothing like as nice as it is now!  The music was okay.  I prefer more trance, breaks or progressive than funky vocal house, but it made a nice change. 

The only thing was that we are all so old now that we left the club at about 3am.  When we got back to the hotel we went into the same room to waffle for a bit and I got a headache and had to go to bed!  Oh dear, I’m so old!