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4 Jun 2007 Grax's Friendship Tour 2007

Grax has been on the road and so far it's been fun.

For the past month of May I've been hitting the road and visiting some of my past friends because dammit, it's been too long since I've seen most of my friends since moving out of Portsmouth all those years ago and I wanna see how they're all doing. Plus I can imagine seeing me would bring smiles and sunshine into my friends heart as well, so everybody's a winner.

The first weekend of May I travelled back to my old Uni town, Portsmouth, to see the roleplaying friends that I use to have fun with when I was suppose to be studying. This included the fabulous Meebles (who's website, at the time of writing, has been offline for month!) The weekend was spent catching up, going to a joint birthday party (Meebles and another guy), and playing a round of Talisman where we all got screwed over by the quiet one because we were too nice to him. Bless his cotton socks.

The second weekend of May I travelled down to Basingstoke to attend a wedding. Well... wedding reception to be exact. I was visiting my salsa class friends that I left when I moved up to Oxford. After all two of those salsa friends were getting married that day so I figured I would arrive and give them my blessings and give blessings all round... Not that they needed Grax's blessing or anything. It was rather jolly watching the happy couple for a moment, but I left qjuite early in the evening. I didn't book a place to stay in Basingstoke and... I guess I wasn't quite in the joining-in mood that night.

One the third weekend of May I ventured to Fareham to see my old school chums. This was the best time I had so far in my tour because, despite not seeing my Fareham friends for a good year or so, the moment I walked through the door it was like I had not left. We were laughing and joking away with jokes that is only funny if you happen to be there at the time (the best line of the night was "Take it Copper!"). Without a plan at hand I came up with the idea of spending the night in with junk food, beers and some DVD, just like the good old days. Pure nostalgic bliss.

On the forth weekend of May was a double whammy. Saturday I travelled to Swindon to catch up with an old friend of mine where she tells me stories of how she's getting her life back on track. Which, y'know, major kudos to her. I could tell she got a kick out of me visiting her... Well she would have gotten a kick out of anyone visiting her to be fair. Swindon is not exactly the liveliest place to be in England. I can relate to that. Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday was spent back in Fareham for a few games of Third Edition Shadowrun, where even the rain was powerless to stop our enjoyment.

Hell even last Friday I manage to squeeze in a few rounds of cider and port with an old home town friend that now lives in Oxford, where he introduced me to some of his many friends. I feel my social network rising.

The past month has been a fun tour, but it's not over. The Summer holidays are coming and I've got many-a-friends left on my hitlist.

Anyone else want a visit from Grax? Let me know.

Posted at: 14:00 PM