ooh it just reminded me that i love hope of the states, good job!

glad i was of some use

proudly i saw their last ever gig together, before the most traumatic journey of my life

whatever happened? (you don't have to say if you don't want)

it was quite exciting and awful, it was the last night of the reading festival & ex decided instead of stayong overnight we'd go home that

night, but it was pitch dark & we broke our tent, both our phones had run out of battery so we couldn't phone for a lift

after the 20 min walk to the train station we'd missed the last train to waterloo & had to get a ticket to paddington

then they shut the station due to overcrowding & we had to wait outside in the rain for an hour & a half

by the time we got to london it was pouring & neither of us knew how to get from padington to angel so we got on the firs bus, which luckily

went to oxford st, where we'd just missed our night bus connection & had to wait half an hour for the next one. when it came the driver

made us get off & buy our tickets from the machine, & when we got off he drove away

when we eventually got home it was 4am (we set off at 11) and my favourite band had split up

i see what you mean now.

'home' was his mother's house, as if that wasn't bad enough

and by traumatic i mean it's one of my favourite anecdotes

i would imagine you can look back on it and laugh, not so much at the time!

i went to reading to see metallica a few years back. we drove.

at the time i was too exhausted to think anything

oh the luxury of driving! my dad drove us to leeds last year but took the wrong tirning & went to the car park instead of the drop off point

we ended up camping as far from the arena as it was literally possible to be

tbh none of my festival experiences have been easy

we only went for the one day, i've always thought it would be good to go for the whole duration but could never find the money.

and as for driving, i've spent more time driving a bus than being a passenger on one.

you drove a bus? that must be such a good job

it's not. i drove one for a few weeks, then the bus depot closed.

you have to work all hours, for little pay and with customers who are the most annoying people on the planet.

i never thought of that. i love getting the bus, & i imagine driving is quite easy when you're used to it

do you not drive then? you need to around here since there's nothing to do locally.

no i had one lesson with my dad then vowed never to move out of london, where i'd never have needed to drive

when my sister finishes her lessons it's my turn

good luck, it's really not that hard! although, if you don't need a car it certainly keeps the costs down. they are always costing something

i'll need it, my one lesson was very traumatic! when i get back to work a car will work out cheaper than public transport so it must be good

i suppose learning to drive in a city must make it harder, it's all quiet country roads around here.

ours are quiet & residential, there are always learner drivers crawling along my road

you'll be ok then. just don't lock the wheels when doing your emergency stop, having been in a bus going sideways due to that it's not fun!

ooh err. now that you'v esaid that, i will do it!

choose a teacher with a newish car - they all have abs - you can't lock them up.

and you can't be worse than one of my mates, he actually had an examiner get out of the car and walk back to the test centre.

my teacher is one of my dad's clients, his school is called el passo so i think i cn't go wrong

my loon sister hasn't killed/crashed anything yet so hopefully that's a good sign

aye, you'll be ok. it's not that hard, it just "clicks" after a few goes then you're ok..

i'm going to have to abandon you to your duvet, 'night x x x

aww. night x x x

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