Monday, September 12, 2011

Day 245 - Friday, September 2nd, 2011

I rose at 6am, before the alarm - weird, as I had just been in bed for a few hours. Drove to the Carlton Hotel who offer a park-and-shuttle facility for just €6 a day. The Ryanair flight at 8am was standard, with the dehumanizing punctuality bugle blaring triumphantly upon landing. Picking me up from the airport was Mr. Scott Gibling, PDC Official and Marker extraordinaire, and my generous host for the weekend.

After a quick Inspection of Works of his back-garden that is currently mid-transformation, we headed off to Westfield shopping mall in Derby city centre for a Sausage Egg McMuffin meal at McDonald's and a potter-around. The local Asda was then visited for dinner ingredients, and I acted as co-head-chef in the making of a very fine spaghetti bolognese made with mince, pasta sauce, onions, garlic mushrooms and peppers.

Pub-time!, and we picked up Messrs Tommy Cox and Gary Wood before heading to a very fine boozer, which was packed because of the England v Bulgaria match (which England won comfortably), but we managed to find a table in the beer garden, which also had a TV. Alas, there was no chance of seeing the Republic of Ireland v Solvakia match, as it was on at the same time, but perhaps no harm, as it was a 0-0 dirgefest. After many pints and much excellent banter, we left Tommy and Gary home and proceeded to Scott & Debbie's local boozer for more pints and plenty of games of darts. After close-down the local Indian take-away was paid a visit, where I pleaded with the proprietor for the hottest vindaloo imaginable, confirming that I would not sue them or anythng like that. He kindly brought out a sample of his vindaloo sauce, which did have a very nice kick, and he said that if I came back tomorrow, he would have the ingredients for the hottest dish ever.

Back at the ranch, Debbie's Liam had kindly done a run to 24-hour Asda for cans, enabling a channel-surfing and banter session to continue until 6.30am - yippee!!!


Westfield Derby

Contentment :  17.5 / 25
Excitement :     3.5 / 10
Memorability :  6 / 15

Overall Score : 54% (19th out of 245)

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