On Day 2 of our Ireland tour we went for a jaunty ride through Killarney National Park. A lovely ride in a horse drawn carriage through a beautiful national park. Well, what was supposed to be a lovely ride. But, the night before we'd had a little bit too much drink. Hangovers and jaunty rides do not mix.

Night before:


Day after:


Do we look a little green?

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In the west of Ireland in County Clare are the Cliffs of Moher. But Andrew and I like to call them the Cliffs of Insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanity.


Yes, the main point of interest for Andrew and I was the fact that they featured in the movie The Princess Bride.

(Yes, they are pretty impressive, extremely tall and very dramatic. But, Ireland's number one tourist attraction? Surely not.)


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John and Leah's farewell party featured a Frickets tournament at Clapham Common and a karaoke competition at Dave's house.

The winners of the inaugural Fugazees Frickets tournament were team John-John. They beat Nathan and Chris 7-4 to win the championship.



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After the Frickets tournament we headed to DC's house for a summer BBQ and a bit of karaoke. I'd managed to borrow SingStar for the weekend (Juzzy has 8 different copies of the game.)

SingStar is karaoke with a difference. Like normal karaoke, you pick a song and sing along. Unlike normal karaoke, when you're done SingStar rates how well you sang. It rates pitch and timing. Sometimes it can be a bit embarrassing.

I love SingStar. I'm not a fantastic singer but I'm definitely a performer. I sang Love Shack (not very well), Andrew performed his usual Baby Got Back (I was his back up dancer). The group ended the evening with Achey-breaky Heart. We also heard some Kylie, Radiohead, Beyonce, Village People, Pink, Bob Marley, Mariah Carey and lots more throughout the night.

In the beginning everyone is so reticent about SingStar. Nobody thinks it's a good idea. But by the end of the evening everyone is fighting to have turn at the mic. Everybody loves SingStar.


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(Well almost everyone had a turn. James, David and Neo refused to have a go. We're naming and shaming the wuss bags!)

The Wilsons are very sad this week. Last weekend we said farewell to John and Leah. It was time for them to go home to Canada (eh) and do grown up things.

John and Leah were our first new friends in London. We met them on the ultimate field a week after we moved here. We'd been here for 7 days and they'd be here for 6 days and we were all already out playing Frisbee. It was a match made in heaven.

Over the past two years we've hung out, gone on trips together, played ultimate, DW and Pentago and generally had a fabulous time. We're going to miss them a lot.

Before moving abroad in 2006, John and Leah stuck a 20 euro note on their fridge as inspiration to visit europe. This obviously worked really well, so Andrew and I decided that a little motivation for a trip down under was necessary. We bestowed upon them a 20 Aussie dollar note which we hope is already on their fridge at home. They returned the favour with a 20 Canuckian note (it's now on our London fridge).

We'll all have to channel the power of the 20 dollar note. See you soon guys!

I had a bit of a weird experience the other evening. I was in a room full of people, they were all dancing but there was no music. I was at Silent Disco.

Silent Disco was hosted by Massive Attack and the Southbank Centre. It was a disco with a difference. There were two DJs but no speakers in the room. When you walked in the door you were given a pair of wireless headphones and the music was piped through these.

It was kind of strange; everyone dancing, but no music. Every now and again, I'd take my headphones off to watch. Because there were two different DJs there were two different channels on the headphones. This meant there were usually two different styles of dancing. Some people might be swaying side to side to a slow song, while others were bouncing up down to a techno hit.

It looked like this:


One of the funniest things was when a DJ played a well known song. With no headphones, all you could hear was the whole room singing out loud. Usually out of tune.

It sounded like this:


Natalie and I had a fantastic evening. The two DJs were competing with each other all night, trying to get the whole crowd listening to their channel. We'd swap back and forth trying to find our favourite song. My biggest dilemma of the evening was when one DJ played "Girls just wanna have fun" and the other played "Beat it". What to do! (I just swapped back and forth. Best of both worlds.)


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