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Happy New Year!

Illness, lack of time/money and a lack of inspiration have kept Beav and I in Chester for tonight, rather than at a party in York or anywhere else. But you know, I wouldnt prefer to be anywhere else.

Jools Holland and Eric Clapton on the telly (after a good 3 hours worth of Friends on channel 4), Beav at my side, fireworks outside and a nice bottle of Taittinger Champagne. What more could I ask for?

Wherever you are, whatever you did, whoever you were with, I hope you all greeted the New Year in an appropriately silly and fun place with people you love.

I wish you all far more success and happiness and prosperity in 2005 than you have asked/wished for.

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have just been wandering round on the web, looking at champagne related websites. spent a lovely 5 minutes reliving my memories of our family holiday to the Champagne region of france, the tour of the Moet et Chandon cellars we took.. and it occurred to me that there was one of the names of bottle sizes i had forgotten.. i have a photograph of my father standing in the bar at the end of the tour with his free tasting glass of champers, taken of him standing in front of a shelf which displayed all sizes of bottle, from the "quart" to the "nebuchanezzar". The one I forgot was the "Rehoboam" (6 bottles) and it has now become my favourite word.

In other news, we've got Jools Holland on still, and we just experienced Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit played by none other than... a EUKELELE ORCHESTRA!!! how bizzaro

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Ok so champagne really does get you drunk. i was as drunk after a few glasses of Taittinger as i would have been after several bottles of Wolf Blass. but I suppose it works out at about the same cost in the end.

We appear to be starting the new year with tidying, as the flat is a complete tip. The hoover isnt working properly which could cause some interesting problems in a while, but I'm sure we'll cope.