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Well, everyone had been looking forward to it for a long time and when Dave’s stag do finally came along it didn’t disappoint. Never in the history of humankind has such a bunch of complete colonels amassed in once place. The location for the chaos was beautiful, sunny Devon with 20 of us staying in one large farmhouse. First up, for those of us lucky enough to get the Friday off, was a top afternoon of paintballing. Here we see the stag looking particularly elegant in his camouflage outfit… Highlights of the game were the vicious (and extremely painful) stag and best man hunt, a firing squad for badly-behaved Sheppard and an unfortunate, if rather comedy, incident involving Nash shooting the main man in the knackers. After a great Barbie and quick kickaround the rest of the gang joined us that night and we reminded ourselves how excellently beer, jagermeister and tequila go together… Saturday was an early start for the Big Day Out, with a nice coach (and rather confused driver) taking us off to go-karting. After an amusing intro talk from possibly the oddest girl in the county, we got underway. Would you let these men anywhere near a fast go-kart? I wouldn't.

Given the extent of hangovers and general lack of concentration the boys did well, with Si and Matty both making it to the overall final from a group of over 40. Nash was on a heroic all out bid to come last but even failed at that. Next it was off into nearby Exeter for the day's real action and en route Dave was magically transformed into Ming the Merciless (or should that be Minger the Confused?). The rest of the boys donned their speciality Dave t-shirts and Exeter town was definitely in for a surprise...

The afternoon was beery, the sun shone, and as well as leaping off the edge of the quayside into oblivion, Ming made an excellent impression with the locals who were more than happy to kiss his nice pink ring. After some large pizza action and a very bizarre incident involving Patterson and somebody pissing on somebody else's salad (or was that child?), it was off clubbing to one of Exeter's many upstanding and classy late night establishments. Unfortunately we couldn't find that so we ended up in Rococo's which seem to contain some of Devon's rarest moonbeasts. The left-hand photo below shows Ming strutting his funky stuff. The right-hand one, however, shows him caught up in the sort of two-girl manoeuvre which is banned in most countries.

And so ended a top weekend. Thanks to all the boys for making it so amusing and most of all to Dave... for just, well being Dave really. Good luck with the wedding mate it's going to be a superb day.