All entries for Friday 10 December 2004

Dan returns to Newcastle

So I got back to the ancestral seat yesterday. I won't bore you with the details of the train journey except to mention my getting locked in the toilet for about five minutes. Fuckin' Virgin Trains and their futuristic doors. Oh, I travelled first-class again – wasn't as exciting as last time. Still, if thetrainline insists on selling first-class tickets so cheap I'm gonna keep buying 'em.

Looky! There's my house!

So upon my return to Newcastle after almost three months away, I set about catching up, intending to restore my Geordieness as my time away has caused me to fall victim to soft Southern shandy-drinking ways. So far I have:

• taken Shearer, my faithful whippet, out for a walk
• raced my pigeons with Ross Noble
• swung by the 'Grove – apparently Jeff's dead!
• had a Broon Ale or ten with Oz, Dennis, Nev and the rest of the lads
• tried, with 'hilarious' consequences, to raise money for a season ticket
• and burgled a few houses (only kidding – that's what they do in Sunderland!)

After a few shifts doon the pit, I think I'll have settled back in nicely.

Then it'll be off to Mexico!

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