Last night we fought the fog to get up to see Jasper Carrott's Rock With Laughter show. It's become a bit of a staple in the Midlands' Christmas Calendar and basically it's a beneficiary variety show for local charities.

The benefit of having Carrott organising it means that he can pull some strings and get some good names in (we're not talking stratospheric, but still pretty good) and the show is a mix of both music and comedy. On stage last night were Jimmy Carr, Lenny Henry, Carrott, Jethro and an unbilled and suprise appearance from Jimmy Tarbuck. Musically, I wasn't so fussed, but for the sake of illustration the line up included Suzie Quattro, Journey South, Bjorn Again (the big Abba tribute) and the bloke from Wizzard.

It was a good night and well worth the pittance it cost to get the tickets.

Tonight James and Donk came over to the 'Bridge for a pint and a curry. We ended up in Balti Bazaar amongst some big 40th birthday party, and had to wait a rather long time for food. It was good to catch up anyway and there's likely to be some second meet up soon. Rich still appears to be pushing the rowing and Davies still appears to be pushing the drugs (he's a pharmacist for the benefit of the unenlightened), so nothing's changed really.

I also upgraded the Macbook today and replaced the standard 512MB of memory with the full 2GB. Performance has improved phenomenally, so I'm glad I did. I only ordered the RAM yesterday, and so was surprised to see it arrive this morning especially since I had selected the free postage/3-4 working days option. My thinking is by spending big on it now it will mean I get the benefit from it for longer and also save money by not upgrading in two stages.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I have yet to wrap a single present. Better get cracking.

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