{"id":36,"date":"2007-11-13T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2007\/11\/13\/snowboarding\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:33:37","slug":"snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2007\/11\/13\/snowboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yo,<\/p>\n<p>Pat&#8217;s been really busy (or at least that&#8217;s what he tells me&#8230; quite how &#8220;watching lots of 24 and Firefly&#8221; constitutes &#8220;being busy&#8221; is a mystery to me) so hasn&#8217;t had time (see previous comment in brackets) to blog anything.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Look, if you must know I&#8217;ve been doing more than that &#8211; and not feeling at all creative enough to write anything of interest &#8211; Pat)<\/i>  This blog might not be very exciting then.  <i>(Oh, er, yeah, good point.  Erm&#8230; best keep it short &#8211; Pat)<\/i>  Yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pat went for snowboarding lessons at the Milton Keynes XScape centre with James and Leanne from work, plus two of James&#8217; mates (Becks and James &#8220;Riggs&#8221; Brown) last week.  To cut a long story short:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James, Leanne, Becks and James are great\n<li>We had a great laff\n<li>PAT CAN ACTUALLY SNOWBOARD QUITE WELL (ok, so it was only a beginner lesson but oddly he learned rather quickly&#8230; unlike his lame Surfboarding attempts (<i>Hey, I got on the board in the end! &#8211; Pat<\/i>) Yeah but you spent more time on <i>your back end<\/i>&#8230; (<i>Oh, amazing work.  With great wit like that you can hardly tell I&#8217;m stressed and tire-er&#8230; I mean that you&#8217;re stressed and tired &#8211; Pat<\/i>)\n<li>James, Becks and Riggs went on a huuuge climbing wall whilst Pat and Leanne watched on &#8211; both having injured themselves doing the boarding (at least that&#8217;s Pat&#8217;s excuse)\n<li>Pat ended up on a mental bungy ball ride thing, that only that day he&#8217;d stated he&#8217;d never do because &#8220;they&#8217;re the sort of things just set up by some dodgy outfit in the middle of a carpark&#8221;.  A believe the phrase &#8220;Best \u00c2\u00a310 EVER!&#8221; was uttered by him, whilst upside down about 200ft in the air (<i>Other &#8220;select&#8221; phrases were uttered too&#8230; &#8211; Pat<\/i>)\n<li>Pat and the gang are keen to go and do the more advanced snowboarding lessons ASAP (well, aside from the two James&#8217;, as they&#8217;re already pros :-) )\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snow boarding dude and dudettes (Pat, Becks and Leanne at the end of their 3 hour lesson):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n632443781_397335_7922.jpg\"><img src='https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n632443781_397335_7922.jpg' alt='n632443781_397335_7922.jpg' width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leanne and Pat back on safe ground after being catapulted 200ft in the air:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n632443781_397332_68291.jpg\"><img src='https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/n632443781_397332_68291.jpg' alt='n632443781_397332_68291.jpg' width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Since then Pat&#8217;s been at work, a bit ill, in Colchester catching up with Gary, Sarah and Sally via the medium of curries, a mental back-garden firework display (including the obligatory &#8220;massive rocket that doesn&#8217;t quite make it out of the launcher quickly enough and explodes at the height of the house covering the entire garden with pretty colours as everyone ducks for cover&#8221; moment) and some on-air cohosting of the Sunday Hitcall on SGR Colchester&#8230; and is now back at work.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s pretty tired and stressed and generally cheesed off today, but he IS pleased that he&#8217;s doing a certain something tonight:<\/p>\n<p>Going to see Kevin Bloody Wilson at the Cliffs Pavilion in Saaaffend.<\/p>\n<p>Bring.<br \/>\nIt.<br \/>\nOn.<\/p>\n<p>Toodles,<\/p>\n<p>Squage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo, Pat&#8217;s been really busy (or at least that&#8217;s what he tells me&#8230; quite how &#8220;watching lots of 24 and Firefly&#8221; constitutes &#8220;being busy&#8221; is a mystery to me) so hasn&#8217;t had time (see previous comment in brackets) to blog anything. (Look, if you must know I&#8217;ve been doing more than that &#8211; and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catchup","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}