Dryer for Dinner
Last weekend we went to Cardiff. We abandoned the cat for the first time, leaving her to fend for herself (well we left litter, food and water – so it's not like she had to raid the cupboards and rustle up some food). In fact, it's a bit like when my mum leaves my dad alone for the night – all his meals are clearly labelled, complete with instructions (although I think he can still find the loo himself).

Anyway, we went to Cardiff, and stayed with some friends. On the Saturday we went out round Cardiff Bay, which is very nice, and ate ice creams by the water. While we were there, a load of Geordies walked past and remarked that it was "Just like Whitley Bay" - praise indeed.

After much chatting away, we somehow acquired a tumble dryer in exchange for dinner, and keeping to our side of the deal treated our hosts to kebab and chips. (We even got them one each, to prove we aren't tight-fisted. That's a kebab each, not one chip each, that would be mean).

Having drunk a lot of alcohol on the Saturday night, we hauled ourselves out of bed in the morning to watch Paula go to the toilet in the middle of London. I seem to recall ex-Newcastle player Warren Barton getting in trouble with the police when he attempted something similar in the middle of Newcastle, but because Paula did it on TV it's OK apparently, although she still had to apologise on national television.

We then went to a football match which didn't go as planned, and you can read about it here if you're interested.

Having negotiated our way back to our friends' house, we then loaded the tumble dryer into the car and headed home to see the cat. Unfortunately lots of other people had chosen that moment to leave Cardiff, and the M4 struggled to cope with the volume of traffic. So instead of racing up the motorway to see the cat, we sat for hours crawling along in a Nissan Micra with a tumble dryer sat behind us and cat miles away, chewing her way through her collar, but thankfully not pissing on the floor a la Paula.
- posted by Paul @ 12:53 pm