It's a couple of weekends ago now but I was recently up with ex-housemates Chris and Andrew for a weekend. It's so lovely to see them when I go up there. Having lived with them for two years and become best friends, it's made living away from them incredibly uneventful!

We, as we often do, went to the driving range and whacked the hell out of hundreds of golf balls. The range has these really funky new tee mats. You dump all your balls into a hopper underneath the mat and it automatically puts a new ball on the tee after each swing. It means you don't have to bend down and faff, it's an incredible invention! I'm probably alone in this but I absolutely love the small way that technology rapidly advances and improves the unimportant things in life.

On the Saturday we ended up going into Birmingham city center for a pub crawl. Having huge student debts to pay off, we all decided upon going round all 4 Wetherspoon pubs, twice. It was really nice to have a few drinks and do another themed pub crawl. I was in my “I am Matt Chapman” t-shirt and Andrew and Little Rich were wearing their “I am Not” ones, so hopefully a couple of dozen more people will be wondering just who I am and why I'm so special that people wear my name.

It was also nice to go into The Forest pub near Andrews house. There's something really nice about it in there, a combination of the décor and the atmosphere, I suspect. It's a welcoming and warm place that you never really want to leave after you've had your first pint. I even embarassed myself (again) by trying my polar bear chatup line on two rather attractive girls. The trouble with the line though is that it gets me talking to people, it doesn't (as intended) lead to passionate sex in the pub toilets. And they say men have it easy!