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Thursday 16th December 2004
   So, in the morning, M**** and I went to the Clarendon Wing of the hospital to check out what was growing inside M****. It appeared human, and kept leaping around all over the place. As the operator of the ultrasound machine observed, "Wow - we've got quite a wriggler here." She wasn't going to give us a picture (maybe it's not 'policy') but M**** asked, and she kind of went,  "Well, we would usually throw them away but . . . yeah, whatever, here you go." (why didn't I think just to film the ultrasound display with my camera?) So, from about 09:15 until 11:00 that morning, we were there, at the hospital. Everything was fine, normal and on-track. Then, when I got back to work, it wasn't for long.  To complement the 'live music' from yesterday, we had this fantastic . . . erm, Mexican-themed duo playing in the canteen. I assumed they were Mexican themed, as they were wearing sombreros (oh, and Santa outfits, of course) and playing some trumpet-like instruments. They were playing fairly typical Christmas tunes, but . . . well, I couldn't really have cared too much what they playing.
 
I was in a pretty good mood that day, and whatever they were playing was fantastic compared to Kwantum. I wanted to take pictures and applaud them, but they was very little time that day. Damnit, these pictures are getting ahead of me. The first picture (the potato) shows, of course, the semblance of the Virgin Mary, as spotted by Matthew. Don't look on eBay though - the potato has been eaten (a few minutes after the picture was taken). The second picture . . . erm - I'm not sure. That's something Michael did, so you can blame him.
  
Seems like the macro lens on my camera is far superior to the normal lens. Hmmmmm. Anyway, then we have several pictures of various people from our Christmas meal . . . we're at the Wardrobe here. Sorry - did I not say that already? Michael took quite a few of these. And those three pictures to the left there, yeah? Looks like I took those . . . I like the middle one best - everyone in the picture looks fairly normal, in focus, you know? And there's Steve . . . well, being Steve, I guess.
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and then we have this sequence, carefully crafted by Michael, showing the untimely death of green-cat-with-club-thing by yellow, plastic Concorde. Tragic. Looks like me and Lisa are oblivious to the disaster unfolding in front our very eyes. Do people say, 'in front of our very own eyes'? That sounds weird. Our very own eyes. Hmmmm. Anyway, after the meal, we stayed at
the Wardrobe for a while, but just moved over to the main bar area. So where did we go after that? Was it Mook? Oh yes, I remember now. See, Mook do cocktails at two for one, but only from 17:00 onwards.
Looks like we got there around six-ish. I'm not sure if you can really call them cocktails, though. More like interesting fruit drinks, but with very like actual alcoholic content. But, hey, they also do pints of Stella (or maybe it's just generic lager . . . I forget now) for something like £2 so it's not all bad. I think we went to 'Jake's Bar and Grill' (or whatever) after Mook . . . did we? Drinks were a bit too expensive here, but they had this interesting raspberry beer stuff, and only £4 something for a pint. Bargain. I think we went on the Angel after that, but there were now only six of us.
 
I left after the Angel (20:55?) and walked home, thinking the walk would kind of sober me up a bit . . . which it may have done, but the two double vodkas I had once home cancelled all that. Clever. That's Michael to the left there, when we were at Jake's Bar, but I'm not sure what the other picture is of . . . taken at about the same time, but I don't know what's going on there. Still, it wouldn't be the same without at least one blurry picture.
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