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Stuff & Nonsense

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Stuff I’m really looking forward to:

Cinema trips… Last night James caved to my “but @studarby took @Dawnl627 to see it already” whining and booked tickets to see Eclipse this Friday night at our local Cineworld. I don’t care if it will be busy and crammed with screaming teenage girls, I’m excited! I’m also hoping to catch Inception, Toy Story 3, the new Shrek and although it’s still months away I’m getting excited about the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows film this Autumn.
The Aussie party this weekend – I get to hang out with @hayles & @lilacdolphin666 … I’m thinking room picnic on Saturday, McDonalds brekkie on Sunday, and random London exploration.
My birthday! I am going to be 25 on the 25th of this month, and I am spending it in Cornwall with my parents for the first time in years.
Birthday presents! James is spoiling me with LEGO HARRY POTTER OMG and NEW MOON on blu ray, which is really above and beyond since he already got me the iPad and let me get away with several iTunes payments cropping up on our joint account statements.
Going to see ‘Jake and Elwood‘ at the Hall for Cornwall on Saturday 24th – my birthday treat from my Mum & Dad who know me well! I have always loved the Blues Brothers films, can’t wait to see this.
The whole Cornwall trip – Relaxing on the beach, swimming in the freezing sea, swimming in the marginally warmer sea water pool at Bude, going to a brill fabric shop that my Mum told me about, spending time with my family, laughing at James driving up and down the disused runways at Davidstow Moor¹, playing with the cats, and of course eating amazing Cornish food – specifically the pasties from Tasty Pasty in Bude!
Being an Auntie.. only a few months left until I have a legitimate excuse to wander around mothercare squealing over the baby clothes and toys. Yay!

Nonsensical Birthday Celebratory Weekend Planning:

To celebrate the momentous occasion that is my 25th birthday, I would like to have friends come to our house for the weekend, whereupon we shall provide entertainment in the form of film watching, singstar, edible yumminess & alcohol. Oh, and ridiculous wii games.

Since we are in Cornwall for the actual day, the date is still to be decided on, but the vague plan is for it to be sometime in August.

If you are interested in attending, please can you fill in the dates you are available on this Doodle doodad, so that I can try to arrange it on a weekend that suits as many people as possible?

I told him about the old airfield and how I did my first driving lesson there, and now he has some Top Gear type fantasy of racing around the place. To be fair, they did hold some Formula One races there back in the 50s. [↩]

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The Lake District

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, James & I spent a very enjoyable week in the Lake District. We stayed in a ‘luxury static caravan’ at Skiddaw View Holiday Home Park, which was really nice. Apart from getting ill on the Monday (I’m still coughing over two weeks later!) the week was lovely and relaxing, which was incredibly welcome after the stress of the last few months!

We got up to all sorts of stuff, including (but probably not limited to!):

Numerous pub meals/cafe stops
Steamer boat trip on Lake Ullswater
Getting stranded at the wrong end of Lake Ullswater thanks to a steamer boat breaking down
Putting Homily into Lake Ullswater (at the edge, not off the boat)
The Cumberland Pencil Museum!
Puzzling Place – a museum of sorts showcasing all sorts of puzzles and optical illusions, great fun
Paddling in the River Derwent (including Homily)
Buying a Marble Run
Building a Marble Run
Picking lots of marbles off the floor
Trip to Wordsworth House while I was feeling like death
Driving up Honister Pass (quite steep)
Driving up Wrynose Pass (very steep)
Driving up Hardknott Pass (very very steep – this one was on Top Gear)
Picnics
Walks & quite a few random wanders
BBQ
Watching Homily get lots of fuss from strangers
Trip on a narrow gauge steam train
Comedy Show – Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf – incredibly funny!
Beatrix Potter gallery & home

Our static caravan was lovely – really spacious and very comfortable!

We took lots of photos:

Including a few panoramas of pretty lakes:

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A weekend in Bristol

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

At the weekend, James & I headed to Bristol to meet up with Hayles and go to the FREE Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibit.

We met up with Hayley & her friends outside the museum, and went to join the sizeable queue.. two and a half hours later after queuing in the pouring rain we were allowed into the museum. I’m really not complaining though (ok, I am a little bit). It was completely, utterly, unquestionably worth the wait. Plus, we entertained ourselves in the queue by being silly and taking photographs…

Yea, I do goofy well, huh?

Did you know that going round a museum and looking in every room is really tiring though!? I didn’t. I think maybe we were a little tired from the excessive queuing we did first though!

There were two rooms dedicated to Banksy – ‘Art of Banksy’ and ‘Unnatural History’. The first was a collection of his paintings & drawings, and the second a marvellous collection of animatronics. (more…)

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Felixstowe Ferry

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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James & I went to Felixstowe Ferry for the weekend to stay at a holiday cottage with his Uncle Richard & family. On the Saturday night there was a bbq to celebrate his grandmother Norma’s 75th birthday. It was lovely to meet all the different new members of my family. Although I met some of them at our wedding, it was nice to be able to speak to them for longer.

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James’s dad & stepmum Jen came with us, as they flew in Birmingham airport on the Thursday & stayed with us overnight. It was really nice to spend some more time with Jen particularly – for both me & James, as neither of us have been able to spend that much time with her, because they live in Ireland. We took Homily as well, it was lovely to walk her along the beach.

It was the first time I’d let my hair down in a while, we’ve been so stressed with money & stuff later so it was nice to shrug it all off for a change and relax. On the down side, this involved rather a lot of vodka – oops! I felt SO rough on Sunday morning, I thought I was going to be travel sick on the way back to Birmingham!

Some photos from the weekend:

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A Northern Adventure

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I should have written this post over a week ago but never mind!

Following our Easter Trip to Dorset, James & I headed North to visit a multitude of family members! After we got back to Birmingham on Wednesday (15th) we unpacked, did a washload, slept, repacked, and headed off again on our travels on Thursday (16th) – as you can tell it was a very restful holiday, our Easter week off!

We headed to Newcastle¹ first of all, where we went straight to Uncle Richard’s² house. Homily disgraced us within 10 minutes of our arrival – as James and I sat down to rest & have a coffee, we suddenly noticed that our little dog had disappeared into the kitchen when we weren’t watching.. Now, Richard’s dog Robbie is of the mindset that food is just not that important in the grand scheme of things. As a result of this, in their household a bowl full of dog biscuits can be left on the floor to be nibbled on throughout the day. Of course, this concept is completely incomprehensible to our greedy little Terrier, and so she was delighted to be greeted by half a bowl of yummy dog food upon our arrival. The amount of food the dog ate was roughly equal to a week’s worth of her normal food – which left her a very fat doggie for a day or two!

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For clarification – we visited Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I say this because I grew up near Stafford, and whenever we mentioned Newcastle to each other, we meant Newcastle-Under-Lyme.. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne was just ‘The Other Newcastle’. [↩]
Richard is James’s Uncle on his father’s side. [↩]

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Posts Tagged ‘holiday’

Stuff & Nonsense

The Lake District

A weekend in Bristol

Felixstowe Ferry

A Northern Adventure

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