A few weeks ago it was my 30th Birthday.  Does this mean I am a grown up now?  As a kid 30 to me was an adult, at 30 I still feel like a kid.  It’s interesting how different friends’ lives can turn out. Some of my friends are going forth and multiplying right in front of my Facebook-stalking eyes. Some of them have kids starting school, others still feel the urge to shrug responsibility and don’t look in a rush to dump their rucksacks and around the world travel tickets any time soon.  Strange and wonderful how we all grew up in different directions.  I alwasy thought and wanted to ‘be old and have kids’ but now it is here it is very scary.  I think I just have to accept the fact that I am not a youth any more (although skids are still cool) and that this is the time I do need to be getting on with these things otherwise it might get too late for me to enjoy a family.  I never wanted to be an really old dad so the time is now!

Enough of my drivel.  I have a cool wife, for my 30th birthday she ran around behind my back for ages and organised a whole bunch of my mates and swore then to secrecy and to go tank driving!!!!

We all got a go to drive these monsters around a  field and up and down trenches.  Some were more successful than others, some got told off for going to fast (Russ..) and others for going too slow (couldn’t possibly incriminate!). 

All in it was a wicked thing to do as I never would have thought of it, and now I can say I can drive a tank!  After we all finished, we got into our cars and drove down to Peebles for a night out

It all got rather messy, jelly fights, drinking silly alcopops,  Mrs Goddard sampling wierd and wonderful local deap fried delicacys and then crawling back to the camp site.

Amazingly no hangovers all round in the morning?!?!?!?  We all went to Glentress and road moutnain bikes, some old hat at it, others relatively new to it.  All really enoyed it.

It was a fantastic weekend, I would like to thank all who made the effort to come up for it, was touched at the effort put in, and of course thanks to Lara for organising it for me, good wife! The rest of the pictures can be seen by clicking Here