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As we got back to the car on saturday night we spotted a car parked at a funny angle in the entrance of the car park, with two confused young ladies wondering around the front end

On closer inspection the driver had not spotted the bollard which divided the IN and OUT sections of the entrance, and had hit it, good and proper,
On the ground where the bollard should be standing was now a few liters of engine oil, TILT

So now we are faced with a terrible decision, Help two damnsels in distress or head to Gloucester for more beer.

Beer won !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Operation Beer, Beer, Beer and Yet More Beer
This did not however go to plan, Our Cheltenham night life guide was unavailable due to a chest infection, so after failing to find anything interesting in Cheltanham, we invoked the backup plan, Gloucester. Arrive Gloucester arond 23:30, head for Liquid. BUGGER half of Gloucester queued outside and I can’t find my doorman contact, Double BUGGER
Plan C, Interaction, No queue, That could be bad news, but the doorman said they had 450 , so cant be all bad, so in we go! To summerise, Too much R&B, badly setup sound system, and in those immortal words “the avarege age was n,n,n,n, nineteen”, Could have been better !!!
Grabbed a HUGE kebab on the way home crawled into bed at 0230
The missus was not impressed wth the smell of the kebab in the morning !
And yet again did not chunder (although not too sure how!)

Operation Beer, Beer, Bowling and Beer
A nearly flawless plan was almost destroyed because I was late (30 mins , Oooops)
Nothing too outragous, bit of fun,??some hair of the dog, oiling the works for the evening.
and I lost , pathetic really !
Low turnout, but I was not epxecting many for this section !
So the actuall games did not last too long, and we managed to catch the end of the FA Cup Final
Having finished early I popped back home, forgetting that Keiren was due to meet us there after the FA Cup
The Original Plan has not been published as the only similarity between the original plan and the actuals are the location,
What a Cock up !!!!!

Operation Beer, Beer, Curry and Beer
As Planned this involved the consuption of Copious quantities of Beer and Indian Food, not sure how the PINK hat got into the mix !!
Then it all went down hill with a trip to what is probably Gloucesters nastiest night club, The Quay Club, or KC’s as it was know for many years

The Quay Club has it all, 20 year old sticky carpets, border line crap music and damn ugly woman !!!
Crawled in at 0210 , slept for most of saturday morning, and NO chundering (that was a result)
Here is all the Evidance

The Original Plan was ,
19:00 In the Robin Hood Public House , Bristol road (See Map)
21:00 Over the road to the Indian, subject to numbers and confirmation

Attendees where

1. Me , of course
2. Cliff Whitehead (my cousin)
3. Richard Wood, (long time friend)
4. Georeg Beckingham (long time friend)
5. Andy Scoon (long time friend)
6. Bill Wilson, (in-law family friend)
7. Freddy Hampton (Brother in law to be)
8. Gordon Hampton (Brother in law to be)
9. Darren Evans (step, father in law to be)
10. Gavin Evans (darrens Brother)
11. Gavin Tarrant (long time friend)
12. Gary Pratley (friend, ex work collegue,)
13. My Dad

As I type, my wedding is only 19 days away
Picked up the rings today, Hers a simple platinum D-profile number, mine is a fully custom platinum beast with hand cut cheverons pointing away from small central, focal diamond

Hen Night took place last night (Friday 5th May)

Stag night weekend follows next week, God Help Me !!!!!!!!

Gloucester Town Center is closed this morning due to a suspect package outside the HSBC bank on Gloucester Cross

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??[Update 09:45]
A controlled detonation has just taken place

??[Update 15:00]
From the BBC?? :- Suspicious package delays workers

Just changed the back pads on my frontera as they were making a noise
I was however somewhat surprised by what I found

3 of the pads are 40-50% worn and have plenty of pad left
And are comparatively clean
1 pad, ( an inner pad as it happened) was totally destroyed and has very different dirt patterns

The calliper was NOT seized or stuck in any way

I can I assume some main dealer F*&kwit forgot to change the inner pad on one side !!!!
The only problem is the date code on the suspect pad is not readable , so I cant prove this
Until I owned the car it had a full main dealer service history and the pad I have removed are genuine GM parts