As morning is breaking over the 7 peaks of Sheffield the birds begin to sing the, sky changes color and the crazy dancing hobo of hunters bar begins to stir in his card board sheets. At the same time just up the hill the first member of 51 Jr is also about to start another day. At 6:30am exactly Dave Kan't Wright White (Cockmaster to his friends) rolls over in his lonely bed and hits the snooze button on his alarm. For 10 more minutes he lies there contemplating the day ahead and trying to excite his brain enough to give him the drive to get up. He tip toe's around the house like a gazelle preparing him self for the day ahead, some how managing to make not a sound as his size 12 boots fly down the stairs in his rush to get out of the freezer of a room that he is force to live in.
As he leaves the house after making his lunch and having a quick breakfast (always Weatabix) he sends the wake up call to the rest of the house. With the slam of the front door the house is awake, well everyone except the ever sleeping ginger. Alic is the only remaining student of the house and as a result he has not yet been introduce the time in the day before 11am, you could walk in to his room and piss in his bed and he would still probably keep on sleeping (something I know John has considered in times of need!!!). Cockmaster heads off on his way to begin his day playing a part in the grounding of several 737’s not to return until 4:30pm when his roll in the house will change from annoying heavy footed cu*t to head chef.
Next to arise is Dan Clifford (Pro Bmx rider, Pro Building Drawing Man and Pro Ladies Man!!!) unlike Cockmaster Dans morning routine is some what simpler: he slips gingerly in to his lyric, collects together his work clothes in a bag and applies a tactically measured amount of colon (as Dan will tell you never know when you might meet the girl of your dreams!!!).
More often than not the next to get up is German John. The relevance of Johns nick name (The German) doesn’t just stem from his German ancestors, but more over from the incredible efficiency to which he lives his life. To be honest I am surprised that he follows the generic sleeping pattern that society has laid out for him. I'm sure he would find it far more efficient to squeeze sleep in to those moments in his day where he has nothing to do: the 2:20 minutes it takes his milk to heat up for hot chocolate, the 1:32 minutes it takes his computer to boot up, the 2:56 minutes that pass as the air compressor fills up, or he could always sacrifice some of the ridiculous amount of time he spends in the day wanking!!??
Alas though he sleeps like the rest of us, and like the rest of us he gets up and sets about his day with purpose and direction. Johns days have no specific routine, he is currently in his 3rd year of a PhD investigating the coatings applied to ball bearing that make them last longer.........yeah I’m sure he has a far more fancy way for saying it but lets be honest non of us would understand it. A typical day of johns would start with a visit to the toilet, a simple task of the normal 51 Jr member but not for john. John must first make the decision which toilet he is going to visit, the bathroom? The garden? The drain in the back yard? The solvents bin in the cellar? Or maybe the bin in the kitchen? Any of these is acceptable for a #1 or a #2........when I say acceptable I mean he finds it acceptable, the rest of us find it truly discussing!!! The rest of john’s day will be filled fixing his bikes, pimping the cellar and moving everyone stuff out of the living room and putting it in a place they can’t find it!!
Alic, or “the ginger one” is one of society hardest working members, you know the type the ones that make there way through life living of everyone ells hard earned tax!!! Yeah that’s right he a student!! However he belongs to a rare breed of student that I like, i.e. he concentrates much of his student life pursuing the important things in life: Bikes, Sailing, Growing his hair, quoting films and chillaxing!!! A live style I am incredibly jealous of!! When al is not living the dream he is at uni where he is studying Mechanical Engineering which from what I have seen seems to be a lot of incredibly long and complicated equations mixed in with some incredibly long and complicated words to describe the incredibly long and complicated equations?!!?
Bizarrely for a house with 4 lads in we live very much the family life, we each have our own unofficial rolls in the house:
Dad is played by John; he sorts out all the bills, the electrics, and repair work that is needed to keep 51 Jr standing. He gets the most at tea time, he tell us all off when we leave lights on or the house is a mess and he owns and is very much in charge of all the tools and get very angry when you break them (especially the 5.5mm Allan key!!!) The main factor that makes john Dad is the relationship he has with mum. To the outsider there is a lot of bickering and nagging but like most couple they have there moments and it is these moments that keep the love!!
Mum (incase you hadn’t guessed) is played by Dave; As with most mums Dave’s domain is the kitchen, he does all the cooking, buy all the food and does non of the washing up, just as a mum should!! As any good chef will tell you, in your kitchen there is a place for everything and every thing in it place…….this is a constant battle for Dave. It is often raining Tupperware or pan lids from where the kids have just chuck them on the shelf after washing up. And there is a constant nagging from the kids and dad: “mum there is no blood food in the fridge!!!”
The two mischievous brothers are played by Dan and Alic; both are very helpful around the house, cleaning, hovering and doing the washing up. Both have there little BMX bandits clubs Dan is a member of the “Races Boys” Alic is Leader of the “Street Boys”. The two rival gangs occasionally meet at random house party and cause utter carnage (gateau in the cellar, smashed up furniture and next doors bike, dance offs, MC DC flippin da script, killing the power to local sandwich shops…….and all this from two boys, suns of a Police man and a priest!?!!?!?!?
Once the fun and games of the day is over it is time for the serious busyness 51 Jr style: Food, bikes and women……..yeah ok maybe just food and bikes for Dave an Al, unless you count Hollyoaks?!!? The most important part of any 51 junction road members day is the riding, evening riding will vary between indoor for snap, bowl hills for fun or street for an excuse not to ride for the following few days due to the pain in your arms!!!
Once the evening riding is done next task is food, 51JR have a rep for throwing one of the best BBQ’s in town……or at least that is what we say!! When it come to BBQ’s there is really only one key ingredient: MEAT!!! “You don’t win friends with salad”, Homer knew it and so do we!! Unfortunately the mini ramp proposal for the back yard was declined however in its place is a beautiful lawn which everyone uses as a chill out area after a mammoth meat injection from the BBQ…….(that doesn’t sound right does it?!!?) and with that the day is over, or at least that is what we will have you think!! There is always the secret after hours action that goes down at 51, for john the day is only half over at this point, there is still plenty of time for fixing bikes, internet surfing and of course his lovely girl friend (or his right hand if she isn’t around!!!) Dan will sneak off for a good hour or two session of 24/My Space/The Shield, Al will head up stairs to practice tying knots and using his rigging knife and Cockmaster will go to his room to……well put it this way they don’t call him Cockmaster for nothing!!??.......
So if you like the sound of all the shit that goes down at the Junction then feel free to pop in for a bru……but remember if your names not down you ain’t coming in, an if when you are here you do anything to offend then watch out cause Dan is known to flip from time to time. If you hear the cry “I’m gonna fuckin cutt ya blut!!!” then you will know it is your time!!!
Dave Kan’t Wright White.