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Quite alarmingly, Hotmail seem to have upgraded my inbox to 250Mb.

I mean, I know they’ve talked about it for what seems like an eternity, and I keep getting updates from ‘Hotmail Staff’ telling me about all the wonderful improvements they’re making like the new calendar feature (which is great for those people using Outlook Express. No wait, Outlook Express doesn’t have a calendar feature, and Hotmail prevented access to those with free accounts…) but I can see where they’re going. Sort of.
Does this actually mean my Hotmail account might become more useful than pawning off subscription requests and newsletter bollocks, or just give more space to those e-mails with offers of unheard of medicines and porn? Probably the former in fairness as, again, I’ve been concerned at how much spam Hotmail seems to be stopping now, or at least directing all but 1-2 messages a day to the ‘Junk Mail’ folder. Even then, only around 10-15 messages are sitting in the junk mail folder each morning which, quite cunningly, empties itself after 7 days.

Now, how many Dilbert cartoons will 250Mb let me store…

Plain wrong, yet somehow extremely funny. Guess you might need to be in the mood for this…

A good time had by all I guess, plus I can now say I went to university! Well, technically one lecture on English grammatical sentences or whatever it was isn’t exactly much, but when you’ve been completely abandoned at 2a.m in the morning and you don’t know where you’re meant to be heading, these things happen.
So, on to the fun stuff – not many decent photos, but here’s a selection of the best. Sorry to those I didn’t get a photo of – some of you kept hiding! Click on each image to see a full size version (they are pretty big though!):

Go on, admit it, the one on the left is by far and away the better of the two – we even carved our names into the back of it!

Shame this didn’t really work (damn that water stuff washing it all away), but that’s Sarah trying to dye a four-leaf clover into Hutchy’s hair. The green goatee didn’t work either…

So, this was Cora’s idea – “fouldsy, I thought you were going as Santa Claus”… In the end, I did, and Dan went as one of Santa’s elves…

And Santa Claus himself. Rudolf the reindeer pulled more times that night than Hutchy drank shots!

Talking of which, probably the only 6ft4 leprechaun you’re ever likely to see. Swish! This is before he had a couple of drinks…

When I say a couple of drinks, I think we worked out it was more like 3/4ltr of Vodka, 8/9 double shots of gin, 2/3 shots of tequila, and about half a dozen bottles of alcopops. Nice.

Of course, it wasn’t much longer before he was put to bed, some thought it might be a permanent arrangement… And all of this before midnight I believe

Geordies gotta stick together, but what a bloody sight they make. I repeat, this was all Cora’s idea! Suppose it was kinda cool, if a couple of months early! Gotta love those shades though Dan, gotta love them!

Del, what noise does a chicken make? Nice costume, shame he couldn’t quite drink as he well as he talked!

Now this I liked – firstly Jason wearing make up (sorry man!) and secondly that Scream mask which actually pumped blood around it. Very trippy after a few to drink!