big matt

the intro to neighbours on bbc one today was brilliant.

'coming up, lynn and paul get it on down under...'

eugh...dirty

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saw three foxes walking home from the nightbus on saturday night.

i've never really seen them close up before, and they're a bit spooky. really gristly legs, pointy noses and generally grubby looking.

what was weird was how close they came to us. completely unbothered two drunk, tired humans walking towards them, they crossed the road about fifteen metres in front and stared at us when they reached the pavement. then they'd lope into someone's front garden and just disappear. we saw all three run through peoples front gates and by the time we reached the house in question...they'd gone.

i'd love to know where they went.

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saturday saw me celebrate my coming of age in unparalelled style.

there are photos and i shall be putting them online shortly. however, i'll warn you now, i've never seen a worse set of photos...ever.

i am pretty pleased at how many photos were taken though, seen as very few of them i remember taking or taking part in. jane's damage to our clock has caused me great concern seen as i don't remember laughing so hard, or why it was so funny.

likewise, i didn't remember filming nicola snorting vodka off a bottle top...or hannah dancing with a scheisenburger...or sitting in my room all night (no, hang on, that was kester).

we woke up sunday morning to find the kitchen covered in cake and joe with little recollection of how hard he tried (bless him) to get it on. kester's condition just isn't worth mentioning, though now you know why we call him 'grumpy'.

thanks to everyone who came, especially those who travelled (i think i tried to mention them all in a speech) and apologies to anyone who i insulted - there's bound to be a few.

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twenty two years ago today, matthew david 'kanye' robinson was born in the special baby care unit at hinchinbrooke hospital, huntingdon, cambridgeshire. the time was 17:56.

today, matt weighs 72.5 kilos, has magical brown eyes and is still incapable of shaving without bleeding (i've eight years experience, how is that possible?)

one year ago today, matt was living in madrid and teaching english. he celebrated his birthday with a weird ginger person who squeaked mid-sentence and had gastric issues.

by the time matt is 23, he will have been forced to confront the challenges of the future and actually decide what he wants to do with his life.

but until then, let's party...

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met up with joe in london on sunday and had a lovely time at
spittalfields market (jon snow was there, as were jim and andrea corr,
but i digress).

needing to withdraw cash in order to afford lunch, i tried at a
cashpoint (normally the best place for cash withdrawals these days).
no luck. oh well, joe will just have to pay for it.

arriving back at liverpool street and in need of oyster top-up, my
card was once again declined by the (far too large) self-service
machines and at the ticket office.

once again, joe stepped in with his bank card.

when we got home, i called hsbc (always an interesting experience) and
was told that their servers had crashed, explaining why my card had
been declined.

completely useless. had i not had a friend with an account at a
different bank, willing to spend £20 on me because of hsbc's
incompetence, i couldn't have got home.

it actually really annoyed me. thank god i wasn't in a situation where
i had no option but to use my card...like a brothel.

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watched a cracking film this afternoon called renaissance.

it's french, looks a bit similar to sim city, all black and white high
contrast and is visually stunning. storyline was a bit cliché but it
worth putting up with just for the superb animation.

the car chase in the middle of the film was my fave part, flying
through the centre of paris in a citreon from 2054 - what more do you
want from a film?!

just wish that when i draw the curtains, lie down and turn on a film,
i wouldn't fall asleep.

speaking of car chases, i watched sky cops last night. this week they were in london and i was surprised at how many armed incidents they got called to. however, i don't think there are many things more comforting than seeing an armed suspect being driven into and floored by ten plus cops with machine guns.

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tesco's self service checkouts are rubbish.

suddenly nipping into tesco for a couple of bits and bobs becomes a
stressful pain in the baps.

today, i bought two tiger rolls. i was quite happy to wait in the
basket aisle to pay, seen as they didn't have barcodes. the manager
saw me, and asked if i would like to use the self service checkout
instead. she obviously thought it would save time, seen as the queue
for the till was huge and no-one was using the self service checkouts
(i wonder why).

it took the help of four women to find my rolls, hidden deep within
the menus and sub-menus of this impossible system. my mountain of
change (and receipt) came out of three different places.

i have never used self-service and it been an uneventful or quick
experience. the fact is, tesco staff know how to use tesco systems,
which is why you go to the till. customers don't, which is why you
always want to scream at the top of your voice 'BUT I HAVE PLACED MY
ITEMS IN THE BAG!!'

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portsmouth is once again alive with students.

the sweet smell of clean but sick stained carpets brought back a lot
of memories when i visited halls at the weekend.

went out to tiger tiger last night. being surrounded by all these
energetic freshers bouncing off the ceiling on double vodka red bulls
didn't half make me feel old. it took fifteen quid for me to get into
the mood.

am i really too old for this?

it's only three years ago that i was clutching three drinks to save
time going to the bar, and walking nervously through crowds of people
who'd obviously had much more experience than me at the whole
nightclub thing.

in a relatively short amount of time, i've...well, grown up i suppose.
the whole student experience seems over before the final year's even
started.

there's still one more year though; now's the time to get pissed responsibly.

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