Reel Big Weekend

Had a great weekend in London & Bucks, a brief summary:

Spent Friday with about 100 under-15's at 'Aquasplash', Leisure World, Hemel Hempstead. Didn't know it was 'Disco' night so threw ourselves down slides to the sounds of "...get some nookie tonight..." whilst being blinded by flashing lights. All good fun! Became very obvious that we were the only ones there with breasts (Belle) / body hair (Toby) but fun all the same.

Headed into London on Saturday for a stroll around Regents Park, went for lunch in lovely restaurant amongst the rose gardens. Sat in the sunshine with a glass of wine listening to Bach being played on the piano nearby. Great grub too! Did the MSN maze which was a bit lame so headed over to the British Museum to catch a glance at the Rosetta Stone and a head from Easter Island.

As it started to get dark moved on to Kentish Town for a few drinks and a meze dinner before going to see Reel Big Fish at The Forum. Support bands were quite good but very off-the-wall - especially 'The Skindreds', a Reggae/Hard-Rock band with a Welsh Rastafarian lead-singer. The Matches were really good but sound was a bit fuzzy. Reel Big Fish were incredible of course, doing all the old classics & favourites like 'Beer', 'Where have you been?', 'Take on me' and 'She has a girlfriend now' and of course 'Everyone's Doin' The Fish'. There was some wicked skanking going on!

After getting back to Bucks in the wee small hours we crawled into bed (well, trailer tent in the front garden) with that familiar ringing in our ears. On Sunday got to meet Mukhit for the first time, went to church, had a fried breakfast for lunch and visited Bekonscot Model Village in the afternoon...all part of entertaining Mukhit through British eccentricity! He seemed to take it all in his stride though, even topping off the evening with a pint of Guinness & a meal at a local pub.