Saturday marked the beginning of the third year of the Multipack, and so to celebrate we returned to the home of the ‘pack and all round superstar town, Walsall.
It wasn’t as busy as the same event last year, but Si’s attendance being as rare as the attendance of free cake at meetings (which also showed up) made it a good little gathering which eventually stopped at the Hogs Head.
One of the ideas banded about was universally applauded and so it has been decided to have a bit of a hack day (‘Multihack’ if you will… stop booing, it’s not that awful) in the offices of OneBlackBear for the November meeting in order to get the website well and truly refurbished. For more info, check out Upcoming.
In the evening I headed over to Beth’s house for the first time in years for a rugby-fest and OSH reunion. Did I think we’d win? Well like most other people I know I think I was still stunned by the fact we were in the semis, let alone going any further up the ladder. After what was 70 minutes of mediocre rugby, finally England showed some flare and the final ten were pure gold. I was a very happy chappy.
Thankfully that wasn’t the end of the night, as there were plenty of people who I hadn’t seen in ages like Oz, Tim, Beth, Jo, Mitch, Rog, Baz, in fact, pretty much everybody apart from James and Helen. Good times.
Sunday was more for family time, and with my cousin heading off to Australia for a year, we went over to Stratford to see him before he catches his flight.
On a completely different tack, there has been one big mystery this week. Imagine my surprise when flicking through the channels a couple of nights ago I discover that directly after UKTV Gold, a new channel called ‘Dave’ has appeared, followed closely by a ‘Dave +1’.
It turns out that UKTV G2 has rebranded itself to this strange new name and although I sort of see why they did it and how they came up with the idea (I’d put money on it being a team of young graduate types who came up with it), I think it’s a little strange. It’s a little too odd, mainly I think, with a questionable amount of staying power.
Anyway, the whole channel is geared to 18-25 year old men, so plenty of Top Gear, Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You etc etc which can’t be a bad thing, unless you are not a 18-25 year old male.
I met two girls last night who were taught Economics by the current Home Secretary. How’s that for name dropping…