[Off-topic] xaccers:
They were awesome! Having Nick play the more sensible character was a change too.

It brought back some memories for me, when we finished our GCSE's my mates decided it would be a good idea to spend the night drunk out on Portsdown hill (known for having it's own weather patterns and not being the softest or warmest of places).

I joined them not quite knowing what was in store for us, and downed 1.5L of Blue Nun (not being a beer drinker).

We walked (OK staggered) up behind a row of houses with fields behind them, and then Jason cried out "Cor she's not got any clothes on!" as this towel clad woman walked around her house, visible through the patio doors but oblivious to us as it was dark outside and she had the lights on.

I commando crawed up her garden to the edge of the patio which was raised, probably only 2 bricks high, but I was convinced if I stayed lying down I was out of sight. Two of my mates actually went up to the patio doors, one either side to peer in, but she'd vanished into her bedroom to get dressed or go to bed. I picked up a small water pistol from that garden as we left.

We made it to the top of the path, and then had to navigate across the main road going along the ridge of the hill. Sounds simple right? Unfortunately the other side there was a 2 foot high bank, which was very hard to walk up without falling backwards and stepping out into the road.

Eventually we were all over safely and found where the guys had decided we'd sleep (on a tiny patch of grass at the top of some steps above a chalk pit).

I tried to start a fire with my zippo in order to keep warm, but the grass was too green, so I tried using the fluff inside the lighter as kindling but it just blew away.

With the sound of Darren (grew up in America, we'd managed to convince him our friend Tim was actually the Milky Bar kid) emptying his stomach not too far away to lull us to sleep, I decided I'd had enough.

Jeffrey had snuck out, having strict Victorian type parents (he'd feigned a migrane and jumped out his bedroom window), so had to head off to pick up his bike from Darren's.

He, Daniel, Jason and myself headed back towards civilisation, leaving the others to stay with Darren (who I think was actually suffering from alcohol poisoning).

When we reached the town church we said goodbye to Jeffrey, and Jason headed home too, spending the night hanging out his bedroom window being ill.

Across from the church was a very long bench and it looked so inviting at 6am on a cold summer's morning, so Daniel took one end and I lay down on the other, just to rest our eyes. I opened mine just as a panda car went past, and woke Daniel up as they reversed, stopped and got out.

They asked what we'd been doing, we just told them the truth, we'd been drinking to celebrate the end of exams, didn't fancy staying out up on the hill and were on our way home. They got us to empty our pockets and that was when Daniel pulled out a small tin full of various pills. Thankfully they were for his migranes and allergies so nothing dodgy.

We toddled off home and got a couple of hours sleep, before having to get up so I could go to my first LARP, and he headed home. Scarily we both had mopeds, and while it had been a good 12 hours since my last drink, I had had quite a lot of wine, and was really in no fit state to be on the road, let alone running around a forrest whacking orcs with a rubber sword!