"Today after spending the whole week convincing myself and everyone in my office that "I'm not going to Bristol, it's too far…" at approximately 3pm on Friday afternoon, I made an executive decision. Calling Jane and stating "we are going to Bristol, no excuses" the response from her was "oh really, fantastic, you're an angel", which, clearly, I'm not. Anyway, the tickets were duly purchased from the credit card line (I have such a HUGE credit card bill, Jane joked to me that I should just do a direct debit to the Dum Dums on a weekly basis and cut out the middle man!!!) I then got on the phone, and using my powers of persuasion managed to sort out two photo passes for me and Jane. Things were looking good.

The trip to Bristol took a long time. A very long time. Leaving Milton Keynes at 3pm I picked Jane up from Cambridge at 4pm, and we got on the M11, then the M25, then the M4 to Bristol. We arrived at The Fleece & Firkin at 8pm, just as they were opening the doors, and the queue was right around the building. When they opened the doors it was apparent they were being very strict on ages and only letting people in who had photo I.D., however because Jane and I look very old (!) we were let in and I picked up the photo passes from the door, upon arrival inside the venue I discovered to my horror that there wasn't a pit!!! Luckily no-one was down the front so Jane and I positioned ourselves next to the stage in preparation for taking copious amounts of photographs...

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