Me and James had been intending to organise some kind of get-together for a while, but it takes more than good intentions! We met up with Andy Pandy at McDonalds last year and he said “It didn’t happen last year, it won’t happen this year”, and that just made me determined to prove him wrong.

The chosen date was today, 3rd Feb at James’ house. After kids Klubing I cycled to James’ house and met up with Jon, Julia, Squishy and of course James and his sidekick, Katy. I knew Jon had already arrived by the badly parked car outside. I didn’t use a protractor, but I recon 45 degrees from the pavement is not how we park round here. We must be thankful for small mercies – he had a slightly sensible car! On second thoughts, a variomatic is not sensible, but at least it got here.

After eating food that James’ parents had cooked (Thanks!) we (well, a certain broody member of our group) played with a kido called dawn who for some reason popped round for half an hour. Andy Pandy appeared after we phoned him and he dusted his bike off and found his way here. Despite me sending him the email about three times, it never arrived in his inbox. I must try to sort my server out so stuff doesn’t end up in people’s junk mail.

Toys’r'us was our next stop. We must have spent ages in there, and I am surprised we did not get kicked out! We played all over the shop making as much noise as possible. Shortly before we left, we were made aware of the awsome presence of a loose crazy hula-hoop catapult. After playing with said contraption and shooting a hoop most of the way across the large expanse of toys’r'us we set out on a mission to find the ‘razor zing shot’. After asking the same guy twice (who seemed to want one himeself, but was on duty) we eventually found them at the bargain price of £2.99! We bought all their stock, which to be fair was only 7 but the guy who helped us find them seemed to want one – he looked pretty sad that he couldn’t come and play!

We headed off to Kenilworth Castle and played with the amzingness that the flying hula-hoops were! They went a long way, especially if you twisted when you pulled back. We played until it went dark and then were thankful that the hoops were brightly coloured!

Once it went dark, we drove over to Leaminton and visited the Loft for a few too many strawberry beers. I have no idea what was in them (well, hopefully strawberrys, but one can never be sure!) but they were good. After liquid, we headed off to Jon & Julia’s favorite hideout – and Indian in Lem that I have forgotten the name of. The food there was very tasty (and a little hot too!) and the service good. It was not cheap, but worth it!

After food we went to Spoonys for a pint or two (they were all rubbish in comparison to Fruli) and then headed back to James’ for a cuppa.

We eventually headed off our seperate ways, and I am reliably informed that Jon got back to Bognor around 4am, ready to help at the Sunday morning service!

It was great meeting up with folks, and it makes me miss camp a lot! I don’t yet know what I am doing this summer, but if I get the choice it will be lots of camp!

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