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December 19, 2003

DEBS IN CRANLEIGH

This happened last weekend, but it has taken me a week to get round to writing it up.

ANYWAY, Debs and I were in Guildford doing some Christmas shopping. Simon H and Lucy 'bumped into' Debs and I in the middle of Guildford High Street, with Simon S and Michelle 'loitering' outside Woolworths, boiled sweets in hand. Obviously this had not been engineered in any way and the fact that we were all there at the same time of day in the same part of town was entirely coincidental. Hmmm.

We went off to Woolworths where Simon H was intent on purchasing a fibre optic Christmas tree. We pottered about, looking at all the Christmas tat and the group separated. All of a sudden there was a loud crash and most of the people in the shop turned round to see Simon H clutching a Christmas tree, with half of the stand clinging on for dear life and the other half rattling its way along the floor towards the counter. "It's alright, I work here" he offered, blatantly failing to deflect the attention away from himself. How we laughed.

Simon S was having shoelace problems and was knelt on one knee doing them up while Simon H wandered around a newsagents. I helpfully persisted in nudging Simon so that he was continually off balance and unable to tie his laces. Simon H crept up and shoved the poor lad over, right onto the wet concrete and right in front of hundreds of Christmas shoppers. How we laughed.

Debenhams. 'Stocking Filler' section. Simon H knocked a large package off the shelf which caused several of the old grannies to tut and point their umbrellas in our direction. After apologising, he turned round and did it again.

By the time evening came, Sparky had joined us and we were awaiting the arrival of Nick and Sarah. The Little Park Hatch in Cranleigh was the venue and there seemed to be some sort of fancy dress theme going on with several impressive costumes on show (the Reindeer (which actually looked more like the bear thing in Inspector Gadget), Batman, Superman and the 118 men were all particularly marvellous).

Just as the pitiful DJ brutalised a mix between Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind' and Afroman's 'Because I Got High', a fight broke out right in front of us. We concluded that the aggressive 118 man had got fed up with the random bloke calling him 192. Simon H threw himself in the middle of it all and managed to calm it all down, despite the fearful tremblings of his voice. We decided it was best we move on.

And so we did. That was event number one.

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