I have uploaded some photographs of Mr. Richard Bratley’s stag weekend in Dublin.

Possibly the best stag night in the world

I’ll let the pictures do the talking…

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I’ve never been one to post links to YouTube videos on the World of Me, but for this I must make an exception.

This is the introduction to the Playstation Three game Little Big Planet, a cute platform game that invites a global community to create playable worlds with level and object creation tools. How anyone could not want to play a game that has that narrator and that music is beyond me.

Duly purchased, and to be played heavily once I return from a rather busy weekend away…

Jesus that was close! Lewis Hamilton - 2008 F1 champion.

Let’s hope the stewards don’t find another stupid reason to give him a penalty.

(Written last Thursday night, then completely forgotten about!)

It’s seldom that I find myself sat in the cold confines of an empty reference library, but here I am, sat in the cold confines of an empty reference library on a rainy Thursday evening proudly watching my brother teaching children how to drum.

I’m here at the old reference library building in Trowbridge. It’s a cold asbestos-filled florescent tube-lit concrete shell of a building that can at best be described as post apocalyptic, yet it teems with life as the strains of Colonel Bogey are being played with a passion from the hall on the upper floor.

Trowbridge Reference Library - a fantastic space once full of files and records

In this hall, twenty-odd children are marching up and down whilst pounding on drums and xylophones - my brother, Tony, and his ex-army chums bark out orders and heap encouragement on the young band members as they march. This is the tentatively-titles Trowbridge Corps of Drums, a new group of people who, save for my brother and colleagues, only a few months ago had never marched or drummed before. Their progress in this short space of time has been quick, so quick that the group plan to march in the Remembrance parades in November.

For me, the best part of all of this is seeing my brother doing not only something that he enjoys, but something that brings enjoyment to others. After years of silly family arguments and petty fall-outs I feel so proud watching him do all this marvellous work.

I think I’ll come along again next week and offer my support. Do you think they’ll have need for a Stylophone player?

One good thing about converting the World of Me to this Wordpress malarkey is the readers ability to add comments after every post. Unfortunately, spamming bastards all over the world have programmed their spambots to bombard the comments fields with adverts for pharmaceuticals and dating websites.

It’s the reason I have to moderate all comments before they appear on the site. At one point, after receiving over twenty spam comments in one afternoon, I considered shutting off comments for all posts, but then I realised this was not a direction I wanted the World of Me to take. After all, who would Stuart have left to talk to?

As I can handle the current trickle of spam I’m leaving comments turned on for now, but at the first sign of mass spammage, I’ll turn it off.