SEPTEMBER WEEK ONE After an uneventful week we headed to the City Hotel after work with Princes Fagan, gay Mark and 2 new Irish friends Johnny and Celine from Lynne's work. What was meant to be one quickly turned into several as the promoters handed out flyers for free cocktails and wine. Surprisingly enough we also found ourselves in The Clock for a few en route home, still in the day's work clothes! So much for our early sober evening! Feeling...

AUGUST WEEK 1 Fairly usual week and Lynne had a date scheduled with Liam on the Wednesday, so Lyndsay abducted the gay boys (shock) and invited herself along to the peaceful dinner that Mark and Al had planned for themselves! Had a great Thai meal on Crown Street and BYO always makes it all the better. Lynne's date went very well, the fact she arrived home at 6:45am the next morning says it all really hahahaha. Yes, Liam was certainly turning out to ...

REUNITED We had planned on going out for a meal and a few drinks but with Lyndsay jet lagged from almost 2 days travelling and Lynne with a thumping headache we opted instead for a kebab, chips and a few bottles of wine - yes the girls are still a touch of class! Stories were exchanged; we got drunker, louder, danced, tried on Saturday night outfits, started drinking vodka! It was almost 2am when we eventually gave in and went to bed with the hugging and "...

Lynne flying solo...... With Lyndsay on her very long journey back to the UK and Al off to Melbourne for the weekend Mark and I decided to meet up at the Strawberry Hills Hotel for a $5 dinner after work. One bottle of wine quickly turned into two turned into a 2-litre box from the bottle shop turned into dancing around the living room table till crazy o clock. I woke up still drunk and very disorientated to the sounds of my alarm clock the next morning! ...

THE FLYING SCOTSMAN! So I set off on my mammoth trek feeling a mixture of things. Excited about the wedding and seeing the family, gutted as I wasn't getting to visit London, nervous bout doing the trip on my own and finally wondering how I was gonna cope without my drinking buddy!!! I managed to negotiate my way across the world fairly unscathed but was running on adrenaline by the time I hit Edinburgh! Mummy and Aunty Teresa, kinda embarrassingly almost...