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4th April: Went to see the 39 Steps at the London Criterion
2nd April: Jayson’s Birthday - Brought him tickets to see the 39 Steps (theater), wine tasting for two and Halo 3 among other things!
28th March: Sky at night magazine – finally signed up after whinging for ages that I kept missing issues!
24th March: Glasses – finally got an eye test and need to wear glasses for 99% of things – doh! Brought two pairs and am looking into contacts for going out.
20th March: New Phone – LG Viewty in purple – very nice!
15th March: Derby (Matlock Bath) – went on a small car rally around The Penines with Jen & Simon and Darren & friend, was alot of fun – need to do again in the summer without the fog!
29th February – 2nd March: Weekend in Newcastle, went to Tynemouth on Saturday, markets, seaside!
26th February: Out with TMW – (won tickets) for a night at the dogs
1st February: launched ComfortTropical website for work(270,000 registrations to date)
13th January: Trafalga sq for Russian new year
11th January: Mum and Dad’s 30th Anniversary
30th December: Went horse riding on the beach!
29th December – 1st January 2008: Devon – Went away to Ilfracombe for new years, booked a cottage with Jen, Simon (Plust two of their friends) and Grant & Sarah. New years countdown at Hele Billy Bar!
25th December: Christmas Day - Jayson took me to the beach! (freezing!)
17th December: Started permanet employment at TMW (not contracting)
14th December: RNM Christmas party
12th December: Work Christmas party at TMW
11th December: Went ice skating at Natural History Museum
8th December: Brought out first real christmas tree
3rd December: Apartment rented out with real estate company
1st December: Wendy moved out of my apartment in Aus

1st December: Norther Engagement Party

24th November – Engagement party in London

19th November: Started work at TMW
15th November: Leaving drinks at RNM
5th November: Guy Fawks Firework night
2nd November: PM – Resigned from RNM Systems
2nd November: Accepted Job at TMW
2nd November: Midday - Offered 2 jobs
2nd November: Am Job Interview
1st November: PM Job Interview
30th October: Uploaded Cv to cwjobs
24th October: RNM Work Meeting – No payrise
13th October: Met up with Clare for the first time in yyeeaaarrrsss

29th September – Jayson asked me to marry him – said YES!

27th September to 3rd October: THUNDERCRAWL - Went on the Thundercrawl rally – set off from London,
23rd September: Rally Car! - picked up our rally car from Norwich which we brought off eBay
17th September: My Birthday!
15th September: My Birthday Surprise! – Jayson, Rita & Hamish surprised me with a day out, we went on a river cruise, the London Eye, River Festival and then out to a local thai restaurant for dinner – was brilliant!
9th September: Bricklane Curry Festival – out with Dave/Rita/Hamish/Grant/Sarah/Vince
7th September: Benita’s Birthday – caught up with her for the first time since finding out she was living in london from Facebook!
2nd- 20th September: Boiler broke – no hot water

Rita and I are going! 

*yay* will give a review when I get home! 

Arrived in Brighton and the first set of lights – the clutch dissapeared, just like that – there one minute, pedal to the floor the next.  So we pulled into a side street and after some poking around Jayson called the AA (roadside assistance), they arrived about 40 mins later and confirmed we were stuffed, so worky for clutchy.  We explained the situaton (need the car for the film shoot) and figured out we can put it in first, start it and drive it, but cant change the gears, or put it in nutral to stop (so it stalls instead).  So the guy towed the car to the film location (Brighton Marina Asda multistory carpark), and organised that it would be picked up on Monday morning and driven up to Wakefield to be fixed (6 hours north) and we parked the car and just crossed our fingers they would just want it 'parked' somewhere and not driven around *eek*

So it was only 5ish so we decided to walk up to the Brighton Pier (stalls, rides, big long pier, lots of tourist attractions) took us almost an hour to walk there so basically had time to grab an icecream and the find a bus to take us back (which didn't drop us at the marina so we had to catch another one back the other way!)  We went and introduced ourselves and had some 'breakfast' (apparently what they call dinner when your on an all-night film shoot), cleaned up the cars, got changed and went down to the set.

So just to fill you in, they were making a love story based around 'boy races' (think Fast & Furious) the english version.  So they had a few of their own very nice fancy cars, but they had put an ad in the 'Max Power' magazine (fancy car magazine) for ppl to bring their cars & girls down to be in a film shoot, so there did end up being around 50-70 done-up cars there and lots of guys in hoodies!

Got a bit of flack for being a copper, though I was surprised that none of it was nasty, mainly got asked if I would do arrests and body search and if I know how to use my baton hehe – mainly people were really shocked when they found out we wern't real cops!  So I dozed off to sleep in the car around 10ish and slept through till around 1.30 – Jayson woke me up around 2 and we got getting ready to do our bit – while I was sleeping some realy coppers turned up and were offered parts in the movie too – so there ended up being 3 cars and 5 cops – we looked spot on too – couldn't tell the difference between us and them – hehe.

Pointing out here though – that we didn't actually know what we were doing yet – the tiny bit of script that we got – said '3 cops running up the ramp' and that was it, we hadn't told anyone about the clutch problem so we were still crossing out fingers that they would just use the cars as props – we were going to be totally fucked if they wanted us to do a car chase scene!

So the next bit happened in about 15 minutes – all that waiting around and stress for FIFTEEN MINUTES!  They explained that they wanted the two cars to come from the top level (ours) and the real police car to come from the bottom level (picture a multi-story car park) we went from level 6 to 5 where they was dj decks set up and just one car left and two guys playing on the decks.  We totally bagged it, Jayson in the dodgy car in front, Dave and I in the vectra behind him, lights flashing, director yells 'police' Jayson rams the car in first, starts it and zooms down the ramp, turns it off before it stalls – jumps out and runs towards the back of the carpark (where there were some ppl running away) and joins up with the other two real cops back there, Dave and I pull up, jump out and push the two dj's away from the decks and pretend to start talking to them (this took about 2 minutes) we only did this twice and they were like 'thats great – thanks you can go now' – lol we were like 'what!' but were happy – think it will look pretty cool!

so we packed up and changed and called the AA again to come and get the car, it was agreed that Dave would drive me home in the good car and Jayson would go with the tow truck guy. We waiting till 4am, still no tow truck so Dave and I headed off, truck arrived around 5am, I got home around 6am, Dave headed off to meet Jayson and the truck on the road and I snuggled into bed for some kip.  Up at 7.30 and headed off to work!  What a trooper! 

Jayson and the dodgy car arrive up north around 1.30pm, he then hopped back on a bus and got home around 11pm – long long day!