Archive for the ‘Days Out’ Category

Barenaked Ladies and Museums

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

A few things to catch up on since the last blog…
The head of school is back on Monday so the things mentioned in the password protected posts should start to move along from the 31st. There seem to be people who we barely know coming out of woodwork to give support and to quote someone [...]

Stand up comedy

Monday, February 11th, 2008

We watched a fantastic routine by Mark Watson in the Nuffield theatre last night. We don’t get to watch much live comedy so this really was something special.
The only bad thing is that Russell Howard, who we want to see even more, is sold out already. We only bought Mark’s tickets a week before hand [...]

Trip to Hull

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

On Week 2 of the University year, the 2nd busiest week of the year, Amy and I went to Hull. Work weren’t really happy about it, but it was Amy’s mother’s only week off for many a month.
On the first day we went off to Hull Fair and Amy won a little bagpuss doll by [...]

Cars, Cardiff, Ikea

Monday, September 17th, 2007

This weekend we trebled the number of miles our little car has done when we went up to Cardiff. It was lovely to see everyone again and even better to not have to pay £70 for the train fare. However, it wouldn’t be like us to have troubles.
I love my TomTom GPS. My TomTom, however, [...]

English Heritage - Titchfield Abbey

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

We went to our first English Heritage site yesterday in the car (120 miles done now) and you can see my photos, or Amy’s photos, that we took on Flickr. She’s also written a bit more about it on her blog. Also we’ve got a bit sick of squirrels, and have taken action!