Saturday night drinkingHeading out to the <a href="http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/2213/">Shakespeare</a> for a bit of a change, haven't been there before.Drinking in FarehamMESSED UP the Fareham drinking by getting there too late and missing everyone, damn trains and tubes... was surprised by how much Fareham had changed, there's a lot of development in the town centre, what has been car parks for years is now huge buil... Bluewater + DrinkingGoing to <strong>Bluewater</strong> today (definitely not <strong>Lakeside</strong>, ever again) and also meeting Richy for some quiet drinks, possibly at the <strong>Shakespeare</strong>.Are You Drinking What We're Drinking?We did not win the quiz on Sunday night, did you?Drinking Action TONITE!Fortuna Pop are having a party tonight at the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, to promote their new A Christmas Gift from Fortuna POP! EP.It features The Action Time, fresh from their 8 / 10 in the NME (incorporating Melody Maker. Soon), Airport Girl, Salo... Good drinking weekendWe checked out the annual Easter Ales Festival at Chambers on Thursday and Friday nights, and have had a couple of nights back at the flat playing pool and listening to my new Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs collection, and had a day in Canterbury (inclu... RE: Good drinking weekendDo you have all 500 songs - or did you get a cover CD?Drinking and drivingA ten man bike powered mobile bar. Looks like something they built on Scrapheap Challenge recently:From pubcrawler.uk.com... Good weekend of eating and drinkingDespite the previously mentioned car issues (now closer to being resolved, got the insurance certificate so I can get my tax), we had a great weekend. Had a chum visiting, so made the effort to go out, and drag another friend out too, which seems to ... Day 2 of clean and healthy living already, this is easyOK it's only half ten in the morning, but still, no booze all year so far. I can feel it doing me the power of good.New Year's Eve was nice, round some friends' house for champagne cocktails and baby talk and then off to Chambers to meet Emma and her... Ice on the inside of my windscreen tonightTook a while to defrost the car, still very icy and snowy out by Stanford / Westenhanger / Lympne / Hythe wherever the hell it is I'm supposed to say my office is... It's much icier than here at home, so by the time we'd got on the motorway the rest ... Seven undrunken nightsThat's seven days of not drinking, and seven days of not going to Starbucks too. That might be the hardest one to give up, especially as helpful workmates are offering to fetch one back for me. Not drinking will save the most money, but if I pack in ... Don't cross me today!Was rudely awoken by my howling banshee of a son at 2.30 this morning. Just a bad dream I think, nothing was up. He was as cute as you like when I picked him up but each time I tried to put him back down he started again. Hard work. Plus mental busy ... Wait a moment...The in-laws are on their way back from Ireland right now, via turtuous train journey, and I have to pick them up from the station and deliver them home. This means I can't start my Friday night drinking routine until after this task is completed... h... Confusing new yearHappy new year everyone. With new years day being a Saturday, at what point am I supposed to say I am giving up drinking? We had a lovely evening last night, just the two of us eating, drinking and watching TV after Harry had gone to bed. Watched on... A full day of rails todayFull apart from this aside into blogging, and ten minutes to eat my penne arrabiata and read a bit more of Wolf Hall. Just the three of us shut in the board room today putting the final stages to our big ruby on rails project. We should be four, but ... Harry is drinking out of a pint glassClever boy! Drinking out of proper cups is new this week, he's always been wary of them before preferring his beaker or sports cup type thing. Right now he's drinking water out of a pint glass. Of course only water...Fitter, happier, more productiveThe new regime is still in place, this must be ooh, day four of the fitter happier more productive me. No booze yet this year, if you count the year as starting from Tuesday the 3rd of January. And if you don't count Night Nurse as booze. I don't, bu... Hard Day's NightThat felt like a hard day at work today, just lots of things cropping up. Still found time for my half hour walk at lunchtime though and have done 6300 steps (so far). Still no booze, abstaining over the weekend was the big test. There I've proved I ... The final countdown200 days to go, until my 40th birthday. Just been reminded by an olympics email (start of the olympics is on the same day). Nice.More importantly, only 18 days to go until BOOZE! We're not drinking for the whole of January, but, we're saying the end ... Pub challengeTonight's the night of the pub quiz and dinner... Not sure how this is going to work with everyone being on a diet and not drinking. The pub are going to get a bit annoyed with us if we sit there and don't spend much I'd have thought...On a scandalou... 3 is a magic numberA miserable joint third in the quiz last night. Actually not so miserable as it sounded as there were only two points between us and the winners, we could easily have won it. But then again a bit miserable as we were sat in the pub, for the whole eve... The final countdownNot sure why my weekly chart that I'm getting from the http://last.fm api is not the same as the chart showing on my last.fm page right now (Smiths, Pixies, Cure, Suede, Beatles, Joy Division, Beach Boys, Eagles, Pulp, Blur) - must be because that ch...