Passing weeks.

Last weekend my parents came down for the bank holiday. Nothing really exciting happened other than my Dad and myself managed to persuade my Mum to do a 3mile walk along the Ridgeway. She moaned all the time as she walked but she managed it without difficulty. Her mental health is really starting to decline now and it’s a great deal of pressure on my Dad.

After the bank holiday it was back to work but with the addition of two late nights out. Tuesday I helped Paul, a friend from Physics who I know via John, celebrate handing in his thesis and got to sleep about 1:30am. On Wednesday I went to see Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith with Grim, Holly and three of Grim’s visiting global colleagues. This time it wasn’t ’til 2am that I got to bed.

I didn’t really catch up on the sleep deprivation when the weekend arrived. It’s Lindsey’s birthday today, so this weekend she had her birthday party. So, I was up early on Saturday morning and drove up to Liverpool. Thankfully, the traffic wasn’t bad.

After arriving at about midday, and feeling shattered already, there was general talking, mayhem with kids etc. More people arrived, I tried to be intelligent and talkative, but I wasn’t in a fit state to think so this didn’t work out as well as it might have done. I did, however, use some of the time to pop into Woolworths in Waterloo with the stub from seeing Revenge of the Sith and bought the 3 original Star Wars films on DVD with £7.50 off. (This means that with the Orange Wednesday promotion as well, the effective cost of Holly and myself seeing the film was £-1! :-))

Anyway, the evening went on, the BBQ finished, the weather deteriated slightly and a bunch of us went to the pub before returning to Lindsey’s house with pizza, where the party continued in her room. And it continued for a long time… it wasn’t ’til 3:30am that people started getting into beds. Then they continued to talk and music played. I dozed as well as I could. 5:30am came and went. At this point I finally managed to sleep for a few hours.

Much of yesterday is a bit of a blur. However, after getting up, we all trekked over to Formby Point where red squirrels were seen and photographed and ice creams were eaten. I left Waterloo at about 3pm and arrived home at 6:45pm.. having had a large, strong latte at Knutsford services, the main effects of which lasted ’til Banbury, I managed to make it home safely.. it’s a pity that the secondary effects lasted ’til about half 10 as I could have done with getting to sleep earlier.

Pictures of this weekend’s trip can be found on my photo gallery under the cameras sections. There are some under the nikon section and the canon section under the dates 2005_06_04 and 2005_06_05. These include cute squirrel pictures.