Erebus: Mists of Darkness.

I had this post all typed out and ready to publish, but just before I did, I read it back to myself and began to hate it. So yeah, no Mythology post today. Gutting really.

When I was a kid (I'm talking a real kid, like 4 or 5 here) I lived in a pub with my mum, nan and S. S and I weren't allowed in the bar when the pub was open and were banished upstairs into the house part of the place due to a series of incidents. More on those in later posts.

Anyway, like every pub there was an arcade game in the corner (I remember ours was near the door) and it had that Bubble game, you know, the one where you played as a dinosaur and had to clear the screen of coloured bubbles. I thought it was called Bubble Bobble, but I've Googled it and I can't remember it ever looking like this...

Maybe my 5 year old mind was addled by the amount of time I spent on this game and remembers only the dragon and the bubbles. It probably did look like this, I'm just too tired and angry to look properly.

Careless blogging right there.

Well, we were only allowed on this game before the pub opened, so we used to wake up really early, sneak downstairs into the main pub area, get ourselves a Coke and some Pork Scratchings (God we were disgusting) and take it in turns to pop as many bubbles as we could.

We once tried playing hide and seek, but after I ran face first into the pub counter (the bit that lifts up to allow you to get behind the bar. It had fallen down during the game and I didn't know until it was too late) and bust my nose and lip we decided that it wasn't a good game to play. Well, we didn't so much decide it as my mum did.

It was in this pub too that I completely destroyed our very expensive stand alone bath. For some unknown reason, I thought it'd be really good idea to wake up one night and tip loads of stuff into the said bath and make a 'potion'. This concoction contained everything you find in a bathroom (shampoo, conditioner, bleach, hair dye, bath pearls, bath bombs etc) and a few things that you don't find in baths, like nail polish and roses. Lets just say, that when my mum found me (asleep on the bath room floor) she wasn't in the greatest of moods...

How effing cute was I?