Hello

I have had 8 work days off and I am SOOOOO glad to be back at work on this minging rainy day.

On Wednesday my dad and myself joined James and his dad (and Maurice who came to Venice too) and went to silverstone to watch F1 Practices - minted it was. It was good as it was free but also we could walk around the whole of the track so we weren't in one place.

Thursday I was making sure my best mans speech was ok, added a few things and made a few changes. Also ran through it.

Friday drover to Cardiff, basically I was taxi service - picking people up, dropping them off picking more up etc. Friday night we all went out.

I don't have a printer but I knew my brother did, so I went to print out my best man speech on the Friday at my bros. My laptop didn't find the printer. Started to sweat. Thought USB drive so I can print it on my bros. My bros laptop is NT - doesn't recognize USB drives. Started to shit myself. Thought, the internet, got a connection but couldn't connect through bros work firewall. So tried dial up NONE of the 3 phone lines he had in his office would work properly. Started to sweat, shit myself and feel sick. Thought I could take the USB drive to a printers in town the next morning - the DAY of the wedding and print it out. So I went to bed (this was about 1am) at 4am I woke up, really crapping myself - so I went and tried again.

I looked in my bros shelves and Hallelujah, there was the disc with the drivers on it that my bro didnt know where it was. slammed the disc in and woo hoo it worked, printed it off just at 4:20am as Yvette came into the office and I was saying i am printing i am printing woo hoo, she went "thats nice" and went back to bed.

In the morning we got up and the ushers came over to get into our KILTS NOT Skirts Sparky! then off to Llandaff cathedral. What a place! massive.

We got pictures taken and saw Sparks and Em - i was getting nervous Sparky, but that was just incase the lappy and projector didnt work for the speech and I was nervous for my Bruv too. But you could have stayed for the wedding.

The wedding was great, we had 65 odd people in the choir, some hymns were in welsh so me and steven were at the front just trying not to laugh as we didnt have a clue - luckily we were not facing everyone! when it came to the Our Father prayer - Mezz's side mostly said it in Welsh and my bruvs side said it in English - so that was cool.

After the wedding off to the reception. I tried my lappy again and it worked! projector worked! my best man speech had a slideshow of really bad pics of my bruv.

The meal was ace - well most of mine was, for some reason I didnt feel like eating. My speech had a video clip of steven acting in 1987 so was worried that wouldnt work.

Then it came to the speeches, people were asking me how many slides etc so they could work out how long, I was telling some poeple 40 slides so the bets were that I would take 40mins or somone even said 60mins! i actually took 21mins! :D People were saying it wa ace but i did bomb at a few of the jokes hahaha but got around them a wee bit. Yvette and J can tell you how i went :D - oh and Ben as he watched it last night

Steve and Mez gave me a Hearts signed shirt for my pressie! it is minted! what a gift!

Then we got drunk and had a good party.

The next day we were all at my brothers house and watched Hearts beat Celtic at Celtic Park 3-0! back O the net!

Monday Yvette and I drove to East midlands Shed - sorry airport and went with James (JP on the blog), his mum and dad and some other couples and went to Venice. What a lovely place. we got off the plane and got on a boat (taxi) to our hotel, we stepped off the boat into the lobby - how cool!

for the next 5 days we wandered around looking at beautiful buildings, eating loads (put on a stone i think ;)) and drunk a fair bit. I got battered on Thursday. drank 1/3 of bottle of whisky on the balcony James mum and dad had - needed finishing, then went out for a meal just with Yvette and drunk 3 wine and strawberry cocktails and 2/3rds a bottle of wine - dont even like wine. on the way back we bumped into james and his ma and pa and we sat with them, i got a chair from the other table- thought they were italian so tried my best to say excuse me can i have the chair- they were really english haha

told everyone i was fucked and kept on showing people a postcard of the resturant we were in saying "we just ate there it was grreeeeeetttt"

James' dad and i both were wearing same coloured trousers and black polo neck and walking in front of the rest who said we were like twins - so i for some reason dropped my trousers! they all thought i was funny! i just giggle when pissed! I got back to the hotel room went to bed, got up about 10mins later rushed to the bathroom and barffed! Yvette had never seen me that drunk before and never had to help me when i was sick - so not bad in 4 years.

The next morning i had a hangover which i dont usually get! Yvette and James thought this was funny. we had a few hours to spare so we got on a boat and jame me and Yvette went on a 55min trip round venice. twas cool.

Venice was really nice, well worth going to see, some beautiful places to see and great food.

On Saturday me james and Yvette went to see MI3 at the cinema - thought it was ok, just a mindless popcorn flick, storyline is wank, action is good acting is ok - apart from Philip J hoffman who was ace.

After that we went back to mine and watched Munich on DVD - minted film!

Yesterday Yvette was at work so i did washing and tidied the flat. then ben and sara came over - they left and Louise my sis came over with cat and then E and Roo came over - they all left at 10 - so didnt really have a night in with yvette that i hoped! never mind

ohh and for the last 2 nights at about 3am a car alarm goes off - really annoying!

well that will do for me here are a couple of pics - mmm cant upload them - i will try later - my 11000 emails have now been sorted so better get to work!