A Matter of Choice

For this weeks Flashback Friday I'm taking you back to 2008.... Gravesham Pool league presentation night - our team 'Spots and Stripes B' had won the cup and come top of Division three.  Of course, when I say 'our' team I don't mean I actually ever played with them, if I had they would not have been winning anything!  I was there though every Wednesday supporting them and watching the match.  (By supporting them I mean often sitting at the bar talking to my friend Larisa or watching the match trying to remember which colour they were, but I was certainly there every Wednesday anyway!)  I'd been to several presentation nights, this one being my favourite. Starting of reasonably quiet in The Bat and Ball pub in Gravesend, and then heading 'home' to the pool club where there was much rejoicing!  It was a rare event for Aaron and I to both be drinking as we lived too far from town to get a cab home, every now and again it was managed th...

Gravesend, according to Wikipedia  is a town in northwest Kent in England on the south bank of the river Thames opposite Tilbury in Essex. This photo of Gravesend is courtesy of TripAdvisor Gravesend, according to many people who live there is a bit of a s**thole.  Gravesend, according to me is a place full of many fond memories (and some bad ones but we ignore those!)  I lived in Gravesend from 1997 until 2003 and then continued to go back for the next six years after moving away until we eventually left the country. We met a fantastic crowd of people there and had more brilliant drunken nights out than I could possibly count, or remember!  It's the first place I lived when I left home to first live with Aaron, we had a great year sharing a house with two others, - all men, I was the only girl!  Looking back it was great fun but I could never do it again! I later moved into my own flat in one of our 'not a couple' phases. Although at first I was un...