PS2

Liz bought me a slim-line Playstation 2, and 3 games for our (late) Valentine's Day :-D I'm rather liking GTA 3, Vice City and I expect to get into Tekken 5 in the near future too :)

On Saturday we did a 6 mile walk, and then about 16 or 17 miles on Sunday in preperation for the Moonwalk in May. Over 20 miles of walking in a weekend is quite impressive in my opinion. It was a good opportunity for me to put my new hiking shoes to the test and they did a very good job, my feet weren't torn to shreds like the last long walk we did where my trainers fell apart halfway through the hike.

Next weekend we'll be doing a 10 mile walk just to keep us ticking over as we will be going to Nottingham for the second installment of the oh-so-much-fun show of "My parents meet your parents". Ie Liz's Mum and partner will be meeting my Mum and Dad. I thought the last one went relatively well, although my Mum embarrassed the hell out of me by getting hammered, so I asked Liz to apologise to her Dad for me and he went off on a rant about my behaviour!

What did I do? I arranged for a good friend of mine who I've not seen in over a year to join us in Loughborough for a drink. Her Dad said "that's no way to treat people who've driven so far to see you" -- we'd driven just as far as they had! Plus we'd actually got there at the agreed arrival time where as they left their house at the agreed arrival time. Also I didn't buy Liz's Dad and his wife a drink while I was at the bar (I'd only stood there for 10 minutes waiting for them to decide) and had bought 3 of us a drink and a plate of chips and was on my way back to the table by the time they'd decided. Plus my parents didn't pay for some drinks which ended up on their room tab at the B&B, which is entirely my fault of course.

Let's just hope this weekend goes better. God knows I was a nervous wreck before and after the last one, and I got sod all sleep all weekend.