In my home town

How can I have a blog which remembers good times and laughs without mentioning crazy nights out in Winlaton? For those of you who have never been, I probably would not reccommend it, seriously I love it but only because I have been going there since before it was legal for me to go there, I have worked in a bar there and when I go I go with a group of friends who just make it great!

Winlaton, to the untrained eye, is a dump! It is full of men who spend more time in the Turf than their own house and girls who seem to have left their clothes in the house (OK now I am old I can say that, once I was one of those half naked girls...)and the streets are full of fighting yobs and screaching girls pulling hair over some boy and left over pizza boxes on the floor... yes, it is a great place! A great night out!

But I really do miss Winlaton when I am away and always yearn for a blue WKD in the Highlander or Queens and to sing along to the Karaoke in the Commercial! I have had SO many fun nights out there it just makes me happy to think about it. Some great times: St George's Day when we stacked up test tube shots, New Years Eve's spent in the Cannon and Queens, birthdays, Karaoke sessions, large spring rolls, curry chips and egg friend rice, last orders and lock ins, fights and kisses and working in the Vulcan!

In recent times I have seen a lot of changes in Winlaton, not to the decor, or the clientele of these wonderful establishments, but to the way we drink now. Phil stll thinks he can drink like when we were 20 but he is ALWAYS asleep by 11.30 and though he still says we should drink all night, he can't sit up straight enough not to spill his drink by midnight! We still occasionally do shots, but I really pay for it the next day now, how I wish I did not get hangovers, like when I was young!!! Now, we are much more sensible, before you know it we will be in the lounge in the Highlander and we already sit on the 'old side' of the Turf from time to time. Yes, we are growing up but we still fit in to Winlaton, where seriously anything goes... as long as you are local!

How funny it was when Paul was asked, seriously, you are not from round here, are you?! He looked scared! I will never forget that!

Winlaton has a specal place in my heart, it is sad to see things change, the bakers is closed, the sandhill chip shop is now Galaxy pizza and there is a huge big CCTV camera set up in the middle of the street but some things will not change; the people, my friends and the fun times we have when we are together, we laugh, we cry, we get take away and we always come back.