Onelosthousemate would like to say hello to...

Viewers and readers from around the world, confirmed from the following places...

Marrakech (my favourite of the entire lot!)
Seattle
San Antonio
Providence, Rhode Island
Danderyd, Stockholm
Kuwait, Al Kuwayt
New Delhi
Phoenix, Arizona
Kuala Lumpur
Bergen, Hordaland (Norway)
Duxbury Massachusetts
Cincinnati Ohio

I love you all, as well as the people from Maidstone, Scotland, DeMontfort University, EVERYONE... HAVE A VERY NICE DAY!

onelosthousemate

Just a reminder.

Just a quick reminder to everyone that this page is related to my photos page at www.lettersofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com

Anyone wishing to write anything about the sites, good or bad is more than welcome, but please point me in the direction of where I can find it! Who knows, if your nice, i'll probably put a bit about you here too, or write you a letter.

Please keep sending photo entrants, leaving comments and all sorts, anything for me to do.

have a nice day

John.

Last saturday thought i'd see for myself in the lovely city of Leicester how easy it was to pick up a steve onelosthousemate photo. Now i couldn't line myself up to be in the photos so none really count but here are 5 of the 15 that i managed to find. Keep an eye out for the bottom one featuring a terrorist, michael Jackson, Craig David and the scary man from Sin City.

Onelosthousemateness can get you just about anywhere...

Including Halloween parties....

Half a Family of Entrants...

So firstly I get this email in my inbox, simply titled "Steve", just so I know its an entrant. Its a good job as well it was taken where it was taken, and that there was a name on the email because nothing was in the email apart from the photo....

So with that, a big thank you to Linda of Wisbech presumably, who becomes the 3rd entrant to the onelosthousemate quest.

Then later that evening I bag the son as well, and fellow housemate, Alan.

Alans email reads...


Dear onelosthousemate

Having seen your flyer I went on a mission to find steve and I think I may have succeeded.

I found him less than half a mile from my house on Elm High Road in Wisbech

Please let me win

Thanks

Alan Beckett

and here too is the young lads entrant, entrant number four, Alan... thank you.

I am now on a roll, and that is a fact that cannot be denied.

Other responses to onelosthousemate include...

Other than Mr Karl, who entered the oneloststakes for the grand prize, there were two other replies to the first ever newsletter.

This email was from a good friend of mine called Jo, who does lots of lovely helpful work at DMU.

She wrote....

To re-iterate.... you are a nutter...albeit a lovely nutter...

which in all fairness is a rather nice email... and i wasn't going to include it in the blog, but when you compare to it what I got a few days later, it shows what kind of emails I am guessing I am going to get.

I assume this is from someone called Nick. So Nick, this is your 5 minutes (at the moment, cos you haven't replied) of fame

Hi there. Sorry I haven't been in touch, but I've got this modelling job, y'know, and it all got a bit out of hand. I've been working with a guy called Phil on next years traffic light poses, and also a lovely girl(?) called Stevedave for some lavotory doors... just all been go, go, go these past months. Anyway, I'm fine, I'm staying with Nick in Rutland Street and he's feeding me regularly.

I'll see you soon... Steve

what do you reply to that.... well this.

HELLO STEVE,

Nice to hear from you, being honest, was getting a bit worried about thee. I take it you must have seen one of my lost signs, or someone wearing a sticker about finding you, so glad my campaign seems to be working.

Who's this chap your staying with then? Glad he seems to have taken you under his wing. To let him know how important you are to me take him to look at www.photosofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com If he wants he can get involved too, and that would be awesome.

Did I mention there are prizes for the best photo of someone with you steve? If you check out www.lettersofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com all should be revealed on that front.

Nice to hear from you mate. Talk again soon I guess, and hope your new found friend gets involved

Have a nice day

John

Polite, and informative, I think you will agree.

Amongst all of this Karl sent me another photo, but it wasn't quite what i was looking for. Good effort though. I must add though that the email did suggest he was playing by the rules

I told my mail-order bride in Richmond VA, usa about your art project. She has sent me this to past on to you! she works for a income tax agency that has steve in the logo hope it makes the blog. K

STUPID Blog won't let me post photos at the mo... will fix it soon

My First Tom....

This very same night that i had my newsletter, my second entrant and a ham sandwich a very special thing happened too.

I met my first MSN add.

Now when I first set all this up, I didnt really expect anyone to add me to MSN.

But someone did, and his name was and is Tom

Tom is a very nice bloke, just so everyone in the world knows. We had a decent conversation about how he found the address, what i'm up to and things I probably should be doing. Maybe as well Tom will become an entrant.

Either way Tom has been immortalised for being the first MSN add and now all my Adds shall now be known as 'Tom's'

Thanks for starting something else really cool....

Now for all of your reading pleasure, here is the first ever MSN conversation with Tom and onelosthousemate

Please note my politeness, deludedness at the end, and the exact moment Tom realises i'm not a woman.

Tom says:
hey!

Mr A Friend says:
hello?

Tom says:
hey

Tom says:
how you doing?

Mr A Friend says:
i wasnt expecting anyone to have me on msn

Mr A Friend says:
do i know a Tom?

Tom says:
nope, you had your email addess written on your bag and i saw it somewhere so i remembered it and added you haha

Mr A Friend says:
my flyer?

Tom says:
twas a sticker on your bag

Mr A Friend says:
oh you mean.... Hello, I am nice. you should be too!

Tom says:
yeah!

Tom says:
that was it

Mr A Friend says:
your not a friend of Tony are you?

Tom says:
not that i know of

Mr A Friend says:
Sorry, i'm in a slight state of shock that one of my stickers has actually worked

Mr A Friend says:
Nice to meet you Tom. There i'm being far more polite now

Tom says:
yup

Tom says:
hehe

Tom says:
you too

Tom says:
soooo who are you?

Mr A Friend says:
well, my stickers are all part of my flyer, which you'll receive in a minute, and what i'm trying to get people to do is take photos of themselves with signs that have people on them and send them to this address like the one of me ----> there is a grand prize as well for the best

Mr A Friend says:
and two websites if you really want to know more

Tom says:
ah right

Tom says:
yeah i know where to go ^_^

Mr A Friend says:
where were you when you saw the sticker?

Tom says:
in the cornish pasty shop

Tom says:
some girl had it on her bag

Mr A Friend says:
in the city centre?

Tom says:
yup

Mr A Friend says:
of leicester?

Tom says:
yes

Onelosthousemate says:
thats amazing!

Tom says:
dont tell me your bloody spanish or something? haha

Onelosthousemate says:
CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST ONELOSTHOUSEMATE ADDY

Onelosthousemate says:
i'm english

Tom says:
ill get a photo tomorow!

Onelosthousemate says:
reallly?

Tom says:
yup

Onelosthousemate says:
you'll be the second entrant

Tom says:
ill get some other people to as well

Onelosthousemate says:
that would be awesome

Onelosthousemate says:
you want the website links?

Tom says:
sure

Onelosthousemate says:
www.photosofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com this is all the photos and then there is www.lettersofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com which is all about how i get the prizes.

Onelosthousemate says:
feel free to leave a comment

Tom says:
sure

Onelosthousemate says:
this is really weird

Onelosthousemate says:
but cool

Onelosthousemate says:
thank you for being curious enough to add me

Tom says:
thats alright

Onelosthousemate says:
cool

Onelosthousemate says:
I guess i should send you the newsletter that i just sent out to as many people as possible to try and get them into it

Onelosthousemate says:
im not too good on promotion

Onelosthousemate says:
as shown in my poor quality stickers, shit flyer, and flyering abilities

Tom says:
hehe

Tom says:
you just need some high contrast posters/flyers/stickers

Onelosthousemate says:
i can't afford them

Onelosthousemate says:
which is why everything is so bog standard

Tom says:
copy shops

Tom says:
cartridge express in leicester

Tom says:
shite cheap

Tom says:
for printing

Onelosthousemate says:
thats what i've been doing

Tom says:
cheapest by miles

Tom says:
they were 15x cheaper than other places when i got some printing done!!

Onelosthousemate says:
got my next flyer ready which has my face twatted all over it, but got about 700 to shift at the mo of the first one

Tom says:
lol

Tom says:
right, tomorrow ill go get an action shot with steve!

Tom says:
then

Tom says:
ill see if i can get some advertising

Tom says:
haha truthfully i added this because the girl who had the sticker on her bag was hot lmao

Tom says:
but anyway

Onelosthousemate says:
she was? I don't give out flyers to girls unless i know them cos they scare the shit out of me being honest

Onelosthousemate says:
so i might know her

Onelosthousemate says:
unless i gave her it whilst i was drunk

Tom says:
maybe

Tom says:
um

Tom says:
shes

Tom says:
maybe 5'10

Onelosthousemate says:
which is a possibility

Tom says:
lip ring

Tom says:
thats all i remember

Tom says:
and she had a cornish pasty a few days ago haha

Onelosthousemate says:
right, il ask around tomorrow. 5'10 and a lip ring... maybe 5'4 downwards but not 5'10

Tom says:
haha

Tom says:
ok i suck on height

Tom says:
any height

Tom says:
she had hair, i know that

Onelosthousemate says:
excellent

Onelosthousemate says:
my housemates are all very impressed with the fact you are my first addy

Onelosthousemate says:
sorry im not a fit girl

Tom says:
meh, its all good

Onelosthousemate says:
Well, I guess I should make some more stickers before i go to bed now that i know at least one has worked

Tom says:
hehe, how do you make them?

Onelosthousemate says:
i bought typewritter stickers and a rubber stamp maker

Onelosthousemate says:
so far our chat has cost me about 20 pounds, but there may be more toms out there

Onelosthousemate says:
if u see what i mean

Tom says:
yup

Onelosthousemate says:
oh shit i just got an email

Onelosthousemate says:
its all happening tonight

Onelosthousemate says:
did u get mine

Tom says:
woo

Tom says:
yeah idid

Onelosthousemate says:
woo.... just got my second entrant

Tom says:
woo

Onelosthousemate says:
two months, two entrants

Onelosthousemate says:
just a shame i know him

Tom says:
hehe

Tom says:
so...if i use my powers of magicalness to get you lots of entrants, do i get anything special ^_^

Onelosthousemate says:
Well, if it ends up being the best photo, you'll win the overall prize

Onelosthousemate says:
I should make u something though for being the first outsider to be involved

Onelosthousemate says:
hmm

Onelosthousemate says:
i'll have a think

Tom says:
cool

Onelosthousemate says:
it won't be too expensive or well made. But it will be limited edition!

Tom says:
woo!

Onelosthousemate says:
got any kind of idea of what u think u deserve

Tom says:
bentley coninental GT should do it

Tom says:
blue

Tom says:
red leather

Onelosthousemate says:
haha

Onelosthousemate says:
i was thinking of something which wouldn't break the pound mark

Onelosthousemate says:
this will defo be a big thing on my website

Onelosthousemate says:
and imagine if this does get big, you'll be the first. BOOKS, VIDEO'S SHOWS yes im being deluded. But you have the privilage.

Onelosthousemate says:
like that weird advert

Tom says:
woo!

Onelosthousemate says:
thats the best i can offer really

Onelosthousemate says:
i should get a few stickers to you though

Tom says:
meh its cool

Onelosthousemate says:
sorry i just want to make sure... by city i mean leicester not london

Tom says:
yarr im in leicester

Tom says:
right im out

Onelosthousemate says:
ok

Tom says:
later dude

Onelosthousemate says:
can i keep a copy of this chat

Tom says:
yeah

Onelosthousemate says:
just to prove it was real when i come to write about it

Tom says:
hehe

Tom says:
sure

Onelosthousemate says:
excellent

Onelosthousemate says:
have a good day tomorrow

Tom says:
you too

Onelosthousemate says:
you are now a onelostfriend

Tom says:
=D

Whats that done to the map.... ???

Well, i'll tell you what that has done to the map

Not much, because i'm struggling again geographywise.

My Teacher would have been disgusted with me.

Anyway, here once again for your viewing pleasure is my lovely map.

Enjoy

A response from onelostnewsletter.

So about an hour after I've sent off my first newsletter to the world, I get a SECOND entrant.

This is no longer a one horse race. It is an actual competition of some quality.

Our next entrant is one Mr Karl S**********a, i'm assuming he was so close to the camera he didn't want to be identified, so i'll keep his full name a secret to and respect his wishes.

Karl also writes the following in his email

"I've been kidnapped by Libarian Terrorists! They've locked me in a manky room (which looks a lot like a shitty study room at brighton uni) with only a computer. I have to use the computer to transfer billions of dollars into there nuclear weapons testing account. If I don't, they kill me! I only have steve to keep me company! And I think he's trying to give me a clue as to how to escape, but i'm not quite sure yet... Help me."

The librarian terrorists were unavailable for comment.

Thank you Karl for your kind entry. You are now one of the crew!

The First Newsletter, just incase you missed it!

Hello and welcome to the first onelosthousemate update.

If you are reading this congratulations, somehow you have ended up on the onelosthousemate mailing list. This can happen via a number of reasons.

1. You have emailed me and I have just added you to my list.

2. You know the other John Kirby and he has added you to the list.

3. I have a wrong email address and this is a mistake.

Anyway, here me out.

First of all a big pat on the back to Lucy Stevens, who in association with 'Massive Hands' Simon became the first entrant to onelosthousemate. But the game is not up yet, I still need people emailing me those photos. Maybe trawl your old albums or go out tomorrow and take some photos. To help out, if you're really stuck, email me and i'll send you a copy of my flyer. If you really want, ask for some to print and join the cause. Positions are currently available in the onelosthousemate office, unfortunately all voluntary work, but i'll fit you in and make you one of the onelostfamily.

IN OTHER NEWS. The prize has been set. EVERYTHING i receive from my letters will go towards the prize. So far it stands at a crystal whisky glass, 5 air fresheners and a guide to advertisements and signs. But what if i get £500,000 pounds through the post. You don't want to miss out do you.

If you're really not sure whats going on first visit

www.photosofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com

and then go to

www.lettersofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com

that should fill you in.

Please feel free to forward this to everyone, I REALLY DO NEED YOUR HELP.

KEEP IT LOST.

John (MR ONELOSTHOUSEMATE)

The Trouble with Mapage.

Yes mapage is a major problem these days. I want to tell the world where chelsea is on a map, but google just doesn't cut it that well and google earth makes my computer spaz so much anyone would think i've been rubbing speed into the hard drive. Upon looking for Chelsea, (yes I know its in london) I found countless underground maps, a nice one just pointing to the whole of britain, and this... which came up everytime, now I'm not stupid, but this is definitely not a map of britain or chelsea.

That my good friend is a cat in a hat, and a dress next to an old record player!

What would people think of me if my map ended up looking like that with a big arrow pointing towards it saying chelsea!?

Not only would people think i was mad, but it would then imply that Lucy somewhere along the line went to a small cat and found some road signs to take photos of with her boyfriend.

Well i cannot be fooled by a cat, even if its in a hat and a dress.

This is my updated map... I've guessed where chelsea is, being honest I think its a better attempt then the one above.

Please note the time and effort it took me to colour in the sea, was like being back in GCSE Geography

3rd of October 2005.... A BREAKTHROUGH.

So getting more up to date now, and that meaning that my writing will be more cohereant, I had done a hell of alot of flyering, a hell of alot of talking, a hell of a lot of stickering and sticker making, but I wasn't getting much on the email front.

It got round to the 3rd of October when I checked my emails next after the flyerthon. and there it was

1 message waiting

Now before I had Mickkkkkky and Hotmail teasing me. As well as countless send backs on the send out front, so I was naturally well aware that this could be another let down.

So I opened it cautiously, but it wasn't from either Mickkkkkky or Hotmail it was Lucy, my gallery chum, and the heading was "Hurrah! At last!"

This was very promising.

So I read on....


Hello John,

Went to London yday and came up with the goods!

Got 2 pics of Si next to Steve and went to exh at Chelsea and someone had kinda done your idea with street signs- see your an artist and you dont even know it!

xx Lucy xx

I had now entered the world of getting one person involved. I was no longer a onelostvirgin.

Lucy had popped my cherry, and the photos were great.

I was sooo happy. And that was just about when I decided to set up the blog of what was going on.

Just look at these Awesome Photos

SO ENTRANT NUMBER ONE

SIMON'S FACE, LUCYS CAMERA - CHELSEA

(please note Simon's massive hands)

Always look on the Bright (SODJE!) side of life

So I had these evil, evil women weaving their own evilness into an oblivion, but I was JOHN KIRBY, Master of the Universe. Well if the universe entirely consisted of me flyering. I was a flyering king. Everyone was taking stuff off me. Gateway flyers, onelosthousemate flyers, stickers... Yes stickers.

By now I had decided that students were only interested in free stuff. So I bought 250 stickers and made around 30 via the gift of my own fair hands.

Stupidly I didnt keep any of these limited edition pieces. And I soon bought my own printing machine and I am now off in the sticker stakes.

After a good hard session flyering, I inspected the damage Revolution had incured on our environment. The Following photo is of my good friend Tony, with said flyers. Please note the poor lads look in his eye. He doesn't like Vodka let alone love it. Next time you flyer revolution won't you please think of the children.

Flyering... a job for gypo's and Hobo's?

So, I had alot of trouble handing out flyers, but in my defence i would like to add that i am now in my second batch of flyers.

For all those who read the flyer and consequently are now reading this, thank you, I LOVE YOU... BUT WHY HAVEN'T YOU EMAILED ME???

There were many a person I met throughout those days, some of them were lovely, particular note goes out to the woman from Mosh who wore her sticker (yes I now have stickers) the last three days of the freshers week, it made me very proud.

There were however some very evil people out there throughout this time.

To the random asian man who called me sad... shame on you.

To the person who said he would go home and email me... and never did.... shame on you

TO THE REVOLUTION WOMEN...... I PURE HATE YOU

these women were horrible. I told them all about my precious project and they threw my flyer on the floor after they said they were interested.

They were picky in who they flyered, mainly blonde young men. They smoked, were inward, unhappy, and threw there own flyers on the floor, shame on them. I don't often take such a harsh view on people in life and want to see the good side of people, but these people had no good side, because they were and are parasites.

The following images you may find distressing...

Now these women were very nasty, read my letter of complaint to the head of revolution that i wrote on my other site. I went there straight after I had finished. And that was the other strange thing, I was right next to these people and after seeing their moody faces they were quite happy to see my chirpy face on the other side.

Mickkkkkky Test The Water...AGAIN!

Not content with sending me one fakelosthousemate photo, Mickkkkkky McGuigan decides to send me another photo, taunting me with the fact that i am still yet to find any such able body to email me

please note that in this story the number of k's in mickkkkkky's name MAY be exhadurated in order to protect his identity

accompanying the photo Mickkkkkky wrote

that crazy Steve!! What is he up to now??

Mickkkkkky test the water.

Imagine what its like to be the most unpopular person in the world

If you can't, set up a email account, tell everyone about the address that you can't shake a stick at, and then check your account every day. The only emails you receive are from hotmail, and they come about once a month. It is truly depressing.

It wasn't a secret that no one was replying either.

It was a selling point, be the first person to ever email me. I'd started flyering now at freshers week and was using these as target lines

"BE THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO EMAIL ME"

"MAKE AN OLD MAN HAPPY"

"DO YOU WANT A FRIEND FOR LIFE"

"GUARANTEED HAPPINESS FOR LIFE... FOR ME"

"HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN"

anything i could think of to get someone to reply to me.

Then on the 22nd of september, i came home and checked my mail, as i always do, and there it was....

ONE UNREAD MAIL....

I was in, someone had replied! I clicked to continue....

shit it was an email from Mikkkkkky. He wasn't sending me a photo of him either, he was asking for where the photo of him with chas and dave was.

He was however very nice and polite, and i can recommend receiving an email from him.

It wasnt all doom and gloom though. He ended his email....

Also, here is some geezer in a Vodafone shop in Colchester. Doesn't really count as someone with Steve, but at least it wont just be your email sitting in your inbox!!
Mickkkkkky

and true to his word, there he was...

An update....

Now i know what you're thinking....

You're thinking John, you've been to Croydon, Luton and Derby, some of the foremost beautiful towns in Britain, but where are they on a map

A brief note.

It was actually after Chas and Dave, as i'm still wearing the shirt I wore the day before, my apologies for throwing the whole continuity of the blog into disripute.

Derby B & Q....

Straight from coming back after Chas and Dave, or The Ashes, I can't remember now, I am assuming this to be either through tiredness or hungoverness we went to B & Q in Derby for various reasons... now i'll confess, yes someone did buy me tiny people as a present and they are now on my door, but I wasn't expecting a sign as good as the one I saw to be just by the door.

I will say no more. Just enjoy this photo

Luton, Croydon, and the third day of the last test Vs Austrailia!

The very next week, I made the trip down to London with Nic because we had tickets to go and watch the saturday of the test match vs Austrailia.

Now any other year before this one i would have quite happily gone to london (well maybe not happily) gone to the cricket and loved it and come back, no biggy.

But Luton and Croydon was awash with Steves, and I was intent on getting all of them that I cast my eye over.

During the rest of the time many strange things happened. One night I couldn't eat chicken. One man started begging even though he blatently wasnt homeless. Ron, who was incharge of the coach told me that I was a complainer after seeing my backlog of around twenty letters I had written by that time. See www.lettersofonelosthousemate.blogspot.com and then after the cricket I had my photo taken with the pink panther, Sylvester and Sir Bobby Robson.

By the way, we didn't see much cricket, because of the damn english weather, but we were definitely closer to winning by the time of the end of play. I also had my Barmy Army T-shirt made, with no.4 Sodje on the back.

So here they are, my next photos of me. There is one of Nic, but I think i'll have to ask her if I can put it on here before I do, after all you know what women are like. (and if your homosexual, you know what your other half is like)

Also see if you can tell the exact moment someone bought me a england fleece.

A First update....

I had struck in Newport Pagnell, and I feel the need to use a map to prove it, so here it is, Newport Pagnell ish as indicated by the ridiculously small dot on the map, click to enlarge. Anyone who wants proof i met Chas and Dave email me... i have a signed copy of their album now, and i promise you it will never see the light of ebay

Newport Pagnell, where every buddy young artist goes for inspirado

Who would have thought it?

Newport Pagnell....

I love Newport Pagnell, armed with a camera and my own wit, I made my first 'Steve' photos.

It was great, he was here, he was there, he was quite literally everywhere, and all I had to do was take a few photos and enjoy the rest of my night, so I did and these are the results.

The first one I found after relieving myself was the one of Steve and his close family. Just look how happy i am! Think to yourself, that could be me, i know it is me but it could be you! sending me a photo. the next was blind steve with a stick, or steve with a really shit golf club. last but not least, steve being a tidy bastard and putting his litter in the bin.

For these reasons alone I loved my brief stay in Newport Pagnell, I had no idea what is there, apart from a juicer, there were sooo many old people but it was almost as good as meeting chas and dave later that night.

later in the week, i emailed myself the photos out of pure joy, and to make sure the account was actually working.

you'll be glad to know it was.

The rise of the flyer....

Well about 20 odd days into my venture i realised the reason why no one was really replying to me might be to the way in which my flyers were constructed. Quite frankly they were shit. Cheap, but very very shit.

So I went from wax crayons on Karl's cast off paper, to designing a flyer, which I would get printed at the lovely store on Hinckley Road, although the lady in there isnt very nice but i'll explain that later.

I needed something which would say pretty much everything that I needed, and I could make it into a poster as well.

After a while of awkwardly shifting things around on word, I had come up with my flyer. The next day, i took them down to the printers, and for the tidy sum of 3 pounds, i had 400 flyers, now i all had to do was flyer them, and spread the word even further.

Flyer, flyer flyer, and flyer some more.

In fairness to myself, between when they were made, and the beginning of september, my flyering went fairly well, and people were getting in the know. Housemates Mikkkkkky, Shaun, Karl, Paddy and Alan getting in on the act, spreading the word at both work and during playtime.

Mike actually took some out on a rather long night in Mosh, and I think all he got was harrassed as a nutter for the night. Still a big hand and mention for trying to spread the word in Mosh. I'll never forget the night either we asked just about everyone in Fan Club if they were Gary, it was soooo hard to get a taxi back that night, but we did in the end, with a man from Birstall, called.... Gary.

Posters went up at SGP, The City Gallery. Flyers went everywhere, from friends to friends of friends to friends of friends of friends, to people we didn't really like. Customers at the pub weren't safe. Flyers to went up in the Gateway Freehouse. I was even carrying around these bad boys to target anyone.

It wouldn't be until the end of september that i would really go for it on the flyering front.

But until then I was fairly content in all the promises friends had made, to all the promises friends of friends had made. and to all the promises friends of friends of friends had made.

It was time to take a break. Time to get away from everything onelosthousemateness.

In short it was time to go back to Margate and see Chas and Dave.

Just for the record....

MFC's first game at Hartsdown park was a dream. Everyone was on top form. The people who worked in the shop, were very nice and polite, selling just about anything in the world that had even previously touched a MFC player. Fun was had by all, before, during and after the big game, and over 1200 turned up to watch Margate win 1-0 due to a Leon Braithwaite strike.

After the game things got a bit messy in, many thanks to Q-bar and the belgian bar. I even didn't take out my flyers that night, I had a night off.

And because this site is all about the photo's here is a photo of me and all my MFC supporting chums, awaiting the second half from the Coffin End.

If at first you don't succeed, go to Thurrock.

So by now I had spent alot of time sitting around, talking about how my first entrant was just around the corner and waiting, and nothing really coming through to me.

So what a better excuse to do a bit more stealth flyering but with a trip down to margate to see the might MFC's first home game in three years?

Anyway, you may or may not know but it is a scientific fact that everyone in their lifetime from Londoners to Liberian girls stops at least once in their lifetime at Thurrock service station. I have been there so many times, I know most of the news which is stuck on the broken tv, and can even tell you what used to be in the big gaping hole downstairs.

So where better to leave a few flyers? Well in short the answer is nowhere.

So here are photos, one in the toilet, one on a table and one outside, the nice young man is my good friend Karl, chipping in and helping a cause.

(please note that for privacy reasons, some names I will tell you I have changed but really it is actually their name)