Seeing as I’ve not got LiveLizard working satisfactorally there’s no real reason why I shouldn’t update my journal.<\/p>\n
Let’s see, what’s happened since last time I typed..<\/p>\n
Friday
\nmorning at work was punctuated by a paniced call.. “Could you come down to
\nthe lecture theatre and fix the projector so it works with the video? Help!”
\nYes, you guessed it, they wanted the digital projector set up as a big telly
\nfor the world cup match. After some soldering of plugs and changing the projector
\nfrom NTSC to Auto mode, everythign worked fine. Seeing as everyone else was
\nwatching the match I decided to tag along. For a football match, it was reasonably
\nentertaining. I did pop out to get my baguette in the middle of the first
\nhalf and heard the goal being scored on the radio in the shop.<\/p>\n
Friday
\nnight I spent a whole lot too much time talking at the departmental happy
\nhour. I didn’t get to leave until about 7:45, far too late to go do my weekly
\nshopping at Sainsbury’s in preparation for my trip to Liverpool on Saturday..<\/p>\n
Saturday
\nmorning I got up half an hour earlier than normal to get ready and pack fro
\nmy trip up to see Lindsey in Crosby. I finally managed to start off at 9am,
\ngetting to her place by about 12:30pm. I managed to stop off at one of the
\nservices on the M6 to “powder my nose” and to buy Lindsey a birthday card.<\/p>\n
Upon
\narrival I was greeted by a cup of weak, milky tea. Lindsey likes to show
\nthe teabag to the hot water from the other side of the room.. It’s that weak!<\/p>\n
After
\na little time chatting and drinking tea, we set off for Woolworth’s to get
\nthe two disposable BBQ’s (one meat and one veggie) and some cheese slices.
\nAfter we got back to her place we waited around for all the other people
\nto arrive. I think Matthew was the first, followed by various other people
\nincluding Clive.<\/p>\n
Anyway. Of the male guests there, only myself and
\nJim were not ex-boyfriends of Lindsey. This made for an interesting evening
\nwhere the various ex’s ganged up and teased Lindsey and the various current
\ngirlfriends ganged up with Lindsey to tease back.<\/p>\n
Much fun was had..
\nfollowed by going to bed. I had been given a half deflated airbed to sleep
\non, which I couldn’t pump up futher because Jim had borrowed my footpump
\nas he’d left an importnt part of his back in Aberystwyth. Oh well.<\/p>\n
Anyway
\nat just before 4am I get a knock ont he door and Lindsey asks if I’d like
\nto go see the sun rise.. I said ok.. so we all trundled off down to the sand
\ndunes on the coast where we watched swifts swarm, larks lark about and kestrels
\nhunt. Unfortunately, because it was cloudy we merely saw the clouds get lighter
\nrather than a sunrise.<\/p>\n
So, it was back to bed at 5am and up again at 10.<\/p>\n
General
\ntea drinking and breakfast eating ensued until Matthew and myself were asked
\nto leave at midday as Lindsey needed a bath and a sleep before she recorded
\nthings in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
I popped over to Mel’s place to recover my
\nfootpump. It would have helped if I’d have the right house number in my records,
\nbut eventually I found the house. The cat tried to show me the right house
\nbut I didn’t recognise the cat. In the end Eddie found me instead.<\/p>\n
As
\nit turns out it was fortuitous that I had popped around as Mel had made a
\nroast chicken lunch but all those she had made it for had decided to leave.
\nJim & Katrin because they needed to get back home before the shops closed
\nand Clive and Pepsi because Pepsi wasn’t feeling well. So, I got to have
\na rather nice lunch . \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The journey home was panctuated by stops
\nat various services to pee and drink coffee (The Costa’s Coffee place at
\nKnutsford services doesn’t know how to make a latte by the way). Oh, and
\na detour from Junction 11 to Junction 7 on A roads to avoid stationary traffic.<\/p>\n
I
\ngot home, flaked out and finally went to bed at 9pm.. sleeping through ’til
\n8am.. 30 minutes late, but it doesn’t matter really.<\/p>\n
Yesterday wass a NULL day, really.<\/p>\n
Today,
\nnothing exciting has happened yet, though I’ve been invited by a 4th year
\nundergrad to help her celebrate finishing her exams along with her boyfriend
\nand other friends this evening, starting at 4:30. That might be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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