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Day 3 of the epic weekend of northern fun. Yup, you can distinguish northern and southern fun (southern being more intense and northern being filled with random buskers drinking leftover milk and stuff).

9am The girlish screams of a bewildered boy

Again, for the morning I did more micro sleeping, I kept waking up at random times and going back to sleep due to the lack of activity going on since people were asleep. I got a text from Alice saying she was going to be back in Leeds at 12:30 odd and that Gem was awake and all. I think I knocked at Gem’s room to say hello and everything and eventually people were awake to get ready for the last day before everyone scatters back from whence they came.

Alice sooner or later arrived at the door (Gem’s door) and we all had a pleasant chat about what happened and all, I showed alice some photos I took of the day so she had a gist of what went on and all. Eventually everyone went downstairs to make more cupcakes or breakfast (can’t remember). I remember walking downstairs to the living room and finding all of Gem’s housemates just sitting there. It was like I entered the wrong house or went through the wrong portal. I tried explaining myself (i think was trying to anyway) or maybe introducing myself… actually I dont know, the thing was… I just muttered a bit and just gave up explaining or saying anything and just ran away screaming girlish noises, was quite a sight for them and myself I must say. Inn said all she could hear was girlish screams and so did Paul, Alice and Gem who were in the kitchen (you had to go through the living room to actually get to the kitchen). I explained inn what happened and then we eventually went downstairs for our breakfast.

Gem prepared the last bowls of lucky charms for me, inn and Paul to eat, I was intending for her to have the rest but she was generous to let us three have the rest (though i really shouldn’t have made so much cereal yesterday, it could have lasted a lot longer and all). We commented on the fact that the lucky charms turned the milk grey from all the colouring and stuff that was nicely added on to make the marshmallows pretty.

We drank some more tropicana juice to ensure that we were nice and awake. Our plan today was to conquer West Yorkshire and enslave the northerners, forcing them to work down at the pits again to create a new Mordor. No wait, thats another plan, our plan for today to only work out what we were doing. We decided that a BBQ was definitely a nice way to end the weekend and all. Gem had already asked her housemate last night about whether a BBQ was feasible or not and they replied saying that it was best we did it today rather than last night (our original plan). So yeah, our plan was to head down to the local Sainsburys and buy ourselves some BBQ goodness. At one point during the conversation I got bored and balanced my dslr camera on top of my head and tried taking photos with them (they were appalling so I didn’t upload them haha).

1pm odd: Food shopping (aka shopping for food) and the pregnant juice

Initially we thought we’d be able to buy all our stuff at Sainsburys but it turned out that it was lacking in meat and burgers etc. We decided to head into a bigger supermarket and buy our food there instead. So off to the car we go as we drive down to the nearest supermarket which happened to be a Morrisons (god I miss safeways, Morrison’s colour scheme reminds me of some ultra bargain supermarket chain like Netto *shudders*). We bought all sorts of stuff, including olives stuffed with feta cheese (me inn and alice were obsessed with the idea of getting olives for the BBQ, we also got some orangey olives but they’re not worth mentioning to be honest (and by mentioning it now it sort of negates that fact that we are ingoring it)), proper quater pounder burgers, sausages and bacon (there was an offer where if you bought the bacon you get the sausages free) , some onions and some cheese.

We also bought cloudy lemonade and some other juices for the BBQ, one of them (pomegranate juice with raspberry) made me go “Pregnent juice?”, quite a funny way to misread things but I’m sure you can see why I got that looking at the word “pomegranate”. We also got some ice for the juices to make sure we were doing things right. We also bought some sauces and stuff for the BBQ, I insisted that we got nando’s peri peri BBQ sauce as well as some extra hot peri peri sauce for the BBQ to really give things a kick! I also got some catsup for inn (which was highly unpopular at the BBQ).

The bill was about £30 odd which was nice since there were five of us. We tried looking at disposable BBQ’s at Morrisons but I told everyone that they were a bit shitty so decided to pick up one from Sainsburys instead. So we drove there and everyone voted for me to go get the BBQ. Upon entering the store I thought we were missing something, I went to the meat section and got some additional meat for the BBQ, I think skewers are awesome at BBQs and though that the Pork kebabs were a great addition to it and all (especially when you marinade them in extra hot peri peri sauce!). Afterwards we were almost ready for the BBQ, we headed out back to Gem’s place to prepare everything.

Upon arriving at Gem’s house we (well inn) began chopping up the onions and peppers so we could BBQ them (bless her she was tearing up from the strong onion smell) as well as packing up the cupcakes that were made this morning (Alice went at it with the cupcakes to ensure that we could fit them all in hehe bless). I sort of lounged about, I was playing whistle a day when shopping for stuff so I thought I’d give them a break on the whistle haha, I didn’t bring much to be honest. Twas funny looking through the cupboards for extra stuff (we used peppers for the bbq that Gem had already bought and all), Gem earlier on had a look in the cupboards for onions and managed to find one that had began sprouting at the top. Was quite funny one might say.

We eventually headed off to the park de la park for BBQ action.

3.30pm Super flaming BBQs, Photo wars and piggyback ride

We managed to find a lovely spot in Hyde Park to have our BBQ, it had a nice bench where we could unload all our food and all. I think we just went at it with the BBQ. We used some matches Paul got from his car and lit the instant disposable BBQ up, whilst that was going we had a lovely toast on my end of uni, alice’s end of college, gem’s end of second year, and inn’s job haha. Twas a lovely toast (for me especially since I had only finished uni a few days ago). Me alice and inn then toasted with the cameras too haha.

Afterwards we began taking photos of stuff (though to be fair we ALWAYS take photos of stuff so there isn’t technically a begining), this included crazy duel at both ends of the table as well as some crazy 360 degrees continuous burst shooting.

Here’s a battle scene between me and alice.:

Alice gives me the duel face and we DRAW

Me drawing and the third person view shot haha

I also did an animated gif of Alice by doing a continuous shot of Alice whilst moving 360 around her (it messed up near the end since I was closer to her so it wasn’t really a loop) but it turned out quite well as an animated gif.

As soon as the BBQ was ready we went at it with the burgers and the sausages, I told Paul and Inn to put all the sausages in to maximise the space and all but later on the sausages started spitting and the BBQ was in flames (nice flames to be honest), during the incident Inn and Paul tried saving the food but during the process dropped a few sausages onto the table (tut tut).

Not long after some of the food was ready, the burgers were godly! We picked the right type of burgers (as oppose to birds eye frozen burgers) and they tasted like the burgers you’d eat if you were in heaven or at Gourmet Burger Kitchen (they do bare many similarities however). To really top it all off I used the nando’s BBQ sauce and it just made everything taste godly.

The sausages were a bit charred and burnt, Alice still liked them regardless and we managed to eat them all still. Eventually Gem’s friend came to visit us and join in on the BBQ. We had a lovely chat about cameras which was fun. We were explaining use of aperture and how that affected depth of field and all, I even did a test using my lovely model alice (she was pretty much a model for the entire day).

Afterwards we went camera crazy again and started taking photos of each other (like we planned our) it was a blissful moment where everything was childish and giddy.

Near the end inn suggested a piggy back race so I teamed up with alice for the race, though we lacked in other contestants so we just thought we’d have a piggy back ride around the trees for fun anyway. It was pretty fun, Alice thought she was too heavy and I wouldn’t be able to carry her for too long but I did a pretty awesome job, her shoes came out at one point which was funny too hehe.

I decided to get an animated shot of me running around the tree with alice so inn got the camera ready and we started running around the trees in piggy back mode, I think something went wrong with the first take so we did it again haha! I also teased alice a little by tilting myself left and right hoping alice would get scared of falling, luckily she wasn’t, we were able to run around the place in piggyback mode for quite a long time, inn was amazed at the time I was carrying alice (most piggy back rides last a few seconds until the guy just gives up haha), twas all about a nice grip from alice and some good legwork from me haha (do note I’m trying to burn off ungodly amounts of food and the best way to do so is to just do piggyback rides (yes the BEST way to do so, I went there))

Inn then borrowed alice for some portrait photography, I took a quick photo of inn taking the photos as well as a quick photo of Alice when she was doing her hair as well as posing for the camera. One of the shots I took was amazing hehe, theres this natural sense of glacialness and naturalness going on (yes you need a natural sense of naturalness to be natural, if that even makes sense), I was proud of the shot hehe, not to mention my godly 50mm f1.8 lens.

Inn taking photos of Alice

My shot of Alice

Near the end where most of the food was left over I just asked everyone if they wanted to eat anymore and they all shook their heads, so being the proper food eating manguy person type thing I was, I decided to finish it all off. Was quite alot but it also meant I didnt need to eat in the evening hehe.

The flames began dying down and we eventually called it a day and headed back to Gem’s place, we had noticed that the BBQ had burnt through the wood a bit, we took photos of the spot and wrote our names on it.

6:30pm odd: The end of the weekend

At Gem’s house we noticed that her housemates had cleaned up the living room and had set up a dinner table for them to have some sort of special leavers dinner. There were crackers on the table which made me laugh (haha, see I’m laughing, its not xmas!) and they all gave me this look that sort of dictated “you crazy girl screaming, door locking boy”. I just ignored them like the others and went into the kitchen to unpack and clean stuff up.

We then began packing our bags and stuff to call it all a day. I didn’t have much to pack so it was all good, I quickly gave everyone a notebook for them to write something random on the page and all, most of which liked the idea of drawing things I feared most ranging from naked men in parks and megabuses. I get the feeling I did this in the morning but yeah, probably sounds more dramatic to put it here than at the beginning since we’re about to leave and all rather than start a bbq haha (though explaining this probably negates the effect).

Once all packed up we were ready to go, Paul and Inn were driving and Gem was staying in the house. We waved goodbye to inn and then me and Alice headed off to Leeds Station. We got a bit lost on our way to the station and we even went to Belle Vue Road (where my brother lived). Felt a bit funny to have just walked past my brother’s house and not say hello or anything.

We eventually made our way to the station, we bought our tickets and waited at the platform. The wait wasn’t too long as Alice’s train arrived a few minutes after. I gave Alice a nice long hug and a kiss on the head and waved goodbye to her. It felt like those sappy movies where people saw each other off on the station and all hehe. I was tempted to chase the train until it left but my train was about to leave too! So I immediately trotted back to my platform and got myself a nice seat (well not really, it was shite haha, dunno why I said it was nice) inside the GNER train. The journey was ok, I had quite a lot of micro sleeps during the journey and was listening to music constantly. I eventually got home and collapsed into my bed after neglecting it for so many days (and nights).

It was an epic weekend, one that would be hard to top off, the BBQ was probably the nicest part of the weekend since it was so relaxed and playful. We later on discovered that Gem’s housemates did not like us one bit (oh yeah!) and that bacon was one of the most underrated things to put on a BBQ. And there we go, another BBQ to follow next weekend!