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This weekend I…

had dinner at Kokuryo (not bad, but not great)
did a bunch of laundry
went to see the Shotts Highland Games (hammer-throwing! The imaginatively-named Throwing of the [n]-pound weight! Tossing the caber! Ugly tattoos! Rude children!)
did more laundry
had my new favourite takeaway — chipsteak, chips, and curry sauce
did the weekly shop at Asda
vacuumed (this was one chore-like weekend)
helped Neil in the garden (but only if it involves destruction)
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had dinner at Kampong Ah Lee, which had a review published in s1play.com (food not bad, good chicken curry but definitely frozen roti prata/canai and while the nasi was suitably lemak, the amount of ikan bilis on the plate was pitiful)
spent all day at Emma’s 6th birthday party (Euan was bored — all girls, he said)
watched most of Blade 2
did the weekly shop at Asda (Neil decided that he wanted to have a barbecue)
walked out of Asda to find rain just starting to fall (typical)
had Brian and Carene over for barbecue food cooked on the grill
watched some telly (it all blurs together in the end)

(A quiet hello and see you next year to Luke — and congratulations to En and Mark!)

watched Have I Got News For You (always legendary) and Jonathon Ross
went to Body Pump
stuck a frozen pizza in the oven for lunch
did some chores while Neil DIY’d (we now have shelves in the store room! Hand-made by Neil!)
cooked dinner all by myself (chicken with shallots, garlic, and chillies — I was told it was good, which means I’ll never ever be able to repeat it)
met my cousin and his family for lunch
watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (verdict: fun, but the special effects at the end kind of made it less thrilling — maybe we were too far away from the screen to be dazzled, but then I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on the telly and I was overcome with excitement at the end when they melted)
did the weekly shop at Asda

watched Jonathon Ross
went to Body Pump (and was encouraged to also give Body Attack a go)
hung out with my cousin and his family (wow, that baby can talk — her favourite thing to say is, “I don’t know?!”)
had a few drinks with Kirstie (it was her birthday)
did the six-kilometre walk around the loch in Strathclyde Park in aid of St. Andrew’s Hospice
did the weekly shop in Asda (in Hamilton this time)
watched old episodes of Cold Case

went to Body Pump
re-designed this here site
had Chinese takeaway for dinner
computered some more
watched Iron Man (what fun!!!)
did the weekly shop in at Asda
looked at wedding rings (holy crap platinum is expensive, another reason why we’re not bothered about an engagement ring)
moved a few more things over to the house
half-watched Hero

went to Body Pump (upped the weights — I’m aching)
went shopping in Glasgow with Carene
had chips and curry sauce for dinner (mmm)
went to Brian and Carene’s, then the pub, then back to Brian and Carene’s (where I promptly fell asleep, to no one’s surprise)
snacked on cup-a-soup and savoury bakey goodness
crocheted (quack quack) while watching Raiders of the Lost Ark (whee!)

went to a charity race night (horse and greyhound races on DVD, place bets, raffle, auction, all proceeds went to the St. Andrew’s Hospice in Lanarkshire)
tried to go to Body Pump, but the class I’d booked in for wasn’t on, so I used the gym instead
lazed around watching James Martin on a Yorkshire cooking programme
had a chipsteak (weird name) and chips for dinner (mmm, takeaway)
did the weekly shop at Asda
had a lovely long chat with my mum, then my sister
computered till bedtime

met Neil, Brian and Carene at The Voodoo Rooms for dinner and drinks
let Neil laze around (’twas his birthday!)
computered
had dinner with Neil’s mother and sister in China Blue (yum)
did the weekly shop at Asda
explored Craignethan Castle (Neil, here’s why it’s called Tillietudlem Castle!)
was highly amused to find out from Brian that after The Voodoo Rooms on Friday, Neil went up to the counter at McDonalds to order a Whopper
computered and watched Gangs Of New York (I wasn’t paying that much attention, but it was a little more maudlin than it needed to be, IMHO)
computered and watched Desperate Housewives because neither Neil nor I could be bothered changing the channel