I had a really lovely day yesterday. I will post some more photos of York etc, when I get the chance this afternoon, so the journal will look a little out of order. But I have time now to write about my day, so I will!
I met Sarah and Orlaith at Liverpool Street Station just after 11am. We wandered around a bit, ending up in Spitalfields Market. I have been there a couple of times on a Sunday, but never during the week. It was vastly reduced, with very few stalls there, but the food places were there. We got very excited about the prospect of langos, a Hungarian food. Unfortunately the place did not have any, so I settled for chicken paprika. Very nice, but never as good as mum's!! We caught up with each other's news - Sarah's honeymoon on the Isle of Wight, etc. I do wish she lived closer so we could catch up more often, but maybe in the future.....
We made our way to Shoreditch station, so we could head to Wapping. BUT!! The station is closed as they are extending the East London line. So much for that idea. So instead we wandered down Brick Lane in the hope of getting the tube, but we got a bus to the tube station (Whitechapel) and then the tube to Wapping. I was holding a sleeping Orlaith all the time we were wandering about. She is lovely, and very floppy when sleeping. Poor Sarah's back was killing her (and that was before we went mudlarking) so I gave her a rest. And I got in my Orlaith-cuddles quota.
When we finally got to Wapping, we met up with some friends of mine from work - George, Imogen, another Alex, and Alison who now no longer works there. We found them in the outside area of the Captain Kidd pub, a lovely riverside pub, well worth a visit. I bought Sarah and I a drink, the CHEAPEST pub drinks in history. It cost me 80 pence for two pints of soda water, one with blackcurrant cordial in. Tops! Then it was off mudlarking!! We headed down to the foreshore, just in front of the Wapping Water Police station (they look after the entire Thames from Teddington downwards, which is the tidal bit). My first find was a plastic sheriff's badge - very appropriate considering the setting. ;-) So everyone decided it was the find of the day. I was going to give it to the police as we left, but there was nobody about.
Mudlarking is quite relaxing really. You get a bit of a crick in your neck after a while, though. Or if you have a heavy bag on your back and a huge baby on your front, like Sarah did, you get achey all over!! But I think Orlaith enjoyed herself. How many other four month old babies get to spend time hanging from their mums while they pick up bits and pieces of once-whole items, such as pots etc. Bits of people's lives. It's an interesting thought - you can wander along the Thames any old time, well, preferably at low tide(!!!), and pick up the most amazing things. Tudor pottery, glass, modern rubbish, plastic, metal parts, rope, etc etc.
After mudlarking, we went back to the pub, to compare our finds. I picked up two whole clay pipe bowls, lots of bits of pottery, including one with a crown and GR on it, not sure which George it is though. After the pub, it was on to King Edward Memorial Park for a picnic, some relaxing in the sun and some frisbee throwing. The frisbee idea lasted all of 15 mins, when George threw it into a rather large tree, and then he, Alex and Alison spent the next half an hour trying to get it out again!
Then it was home. A great day all in all. :-D
Monday, June 19, 2006
York photos #1
This is York's answer to the London Eye. It moves much faster, and is more like a real ferris wheel really. It is smaller than the London Eye, but very enjoyable.
This is Scotty driving the boat we hired for half an hour to putt up the River Ouse.
This is the man who took our ghost cruise along the river. He was entertaining, although the cruise was a bit touristy. But hey, we are tourists right?
This is the oldest street in York, called The Shambles. Lovely and narrow with buildings that look like they need propping up.
I caught sight of this building, and I loved the fact that the two halves looked like they were leaning in on each other.
Pictures from the wedding
This is Squeaky, the pub cat. She had no teeth and was very cute passed out in the grass.
Orlaith and I. I was trying to calm the poor tike down after so many people wanted to say hi. I think it was a bit much for her. Orlaith is lovely, and makes me smile. :-)
Sarah and Jake after the ceremony.
Just after tying the knot... Sarah, Jake and Orlaith.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
I have had a quiet week really. Although on Tuesday we had a slight emergency at work. We had a torrential downpour, reminding me of home, and the drains could not cope. We had water pouring through the ceiling, down into the lift shafts, onto the wooden floors, and into the floors below. We cleared the galleries of people, and set to work mopping, and replacing buckets, and generally oggling at the amount of water coming in!! The museum survived, the lifts are still drying out though. :-)
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Friday, June 09, 2006
Wedding, random tourism and training...
Saturday morning we left for the wedding in Cambridge about midday. We took the train from Liverpool Street station, and the journey took about 1.5 hours. We arrived to glorious weather - sunshine, warmth, half naked people everywhere. ;-) We had a couple of hours to kill before the wedding, which was at 4pm, so we took a cab to the Shire Hall, the venue for the wedding, and walked around from there. We wandered past the Cambridge Folk Museum, and I wanted to have a look. So we went in. The lady behind the desk was lovely, as she offered to mind our bag for us (our large cumbersome overnight bag) while we wandered around, not only the museum but Cambridge as well. In light of this, I felt the need to pay the entry price to the museum. I had a brief look around. Nothing too exciting, although I did like the Victorian picnic set which was complete with a spirit burner to make tea. Very civilised.
The wedding was lovely. Sarah looked stunning in her wedding dress, which was pale gold and embroidered with beads. The ceremony was short, with Jake's neice Madeleine adding sound effects to it. :-) She is 10 weeks old I think, 3 weeks younger than Sarah's daughter Orlaith. After the ceremony there were many photos taken outside in the sunshine under a lovely large tree. Orlaith, poor thing was not enjoying all the attention. I stole her away and she seemed to be calmer with someone she knew holding her. She is lovely, and she had on a very cute pink lacey dress.
From there we got a lift (Scott and I were in separate cars) to the reception, which was at a pub called the Green Man in a village called Colne. I have to correct myself when talking about small towns, as I always want to call them country towns, but in the UK they are villages. :-) Often villages, although quite separate, can be only 2 miles apart.
The reception was fun. We met some new people, which was nice considering we didn't know anyone. The pub was sweet with a real character. We met a guy called Jeff, who is very funny. He has told us we have to go to Edinburgh for the Festival. I would love to, and now we have someone to meet up with, it should be great. We got back to our hotel, in the next village, at about 1am, to sleep in a four poster bed.
The next morning we took a train from the nearest station, Huntingdon, to Peterborough. From there we looked at where the trains went, and then headed to York. It was a great choice, and we arrived about 2pm, and found our hotel we had previously booked from the Lonely Planet guide. Dumped our bag and then hit the town. We wandered about, and we found a German market - complete with sausages and beer. We found what we wanted to see, which was the Jorvik viking centre. It is a museum over the site that archaeologists found the remains of the viking settlement of York, called Jorvik by the vikings themselves. We went on a ride through the viking village, complete with sights AND smells. It was fantastic, thoroughly enjoyable. From there we wandered down to the river, as we had decided to do a ghost boat cruise at 7pm. In the meantime we hired a putt putt boat and dorve up and down the river for half an hour. That was really fun. I got to drive!! The ghost cruise was funny, a bit tacky, but the guy dressed up had some good stories. We had some dinner after the cruise at a pub looking over the River Ouse "ooze" :-)
The next morning we had a yummy hot breakfast to keep us going for a touristy day. We checked out and headed to the York Castle Museum. That was a very good museum, with lots of reconstructions of streets and scenes, which I think museums should do more of. That way, people can see how the objects were used originally, and not just in a glass case. From there we headed to the Richard III museum, which is in one of the gates of the old city walls. Then it was on to the Minster. The Minster is stunning, and huge. It is a huge church or cathedral, which dominates the York skyline. We had a look in the crypt as well. There are lots of stained glass windows which are lovely, many of which are still the original medieval windows.
From the Minster we took a train, that was really a truck with trailers for the passengers, to the National Railway Museum. The NRM is the largest railway museum in the world. It was very interesting, with lots of big trains and sights to see. We walked in a bullet train, wandered in the open store, took lots of pics, saw a demonstration of a turntable. After the Museum we had a ride on the York wheel, which is a smaller than the London Eye but it gave us a lovely view of the city. After the museum, as we were kicked out at 6pm, we wandered back into town and grabbed some dinner. We started off in a Turkish restaurant but the guy was so rude to us when we entered that we left. I hate it when people in restaurants tell me where I can and cannot sit when I ask nicely. The restaurant was not full, and there were two people sitting at a table for 4 (which is where I wanted to sit but we were told no). So we walked out. We ended up in a Chinese place up the road which was very nice. Then it was back to London on the train and home from the station on the night bus.
This week at work I have endured training. It has not been too bad. They have not made me do everything, and it has been nice to get to know the newbies.
Oh, I almost forgot... I received my UK drivers licence in the post yesterday. YAY!!!!
The wedding was lovely. Sarah looked stunning in her wedding dress, which was pale gold and embroidered with beads. The ceremony was short, with Jake's neice Madeleine adding sound effects to it. :-) She is 10 weeks old I think, 3 weeks younger than Sarah's daughter Orlaith. After the ceremony there were many photos taken outside in the sunshine under a lovely large tree. Orlaith, poor thing was not enjoying all the attention. I stole her away and she seemed to be calmer with someone she knew holding her. She is lovely, and she had on a very cute pink lacey dress.
From there we got a lift (Scott and I were in separate cars) to the reception, which was at a pub called the Green Man in a village called Colne. I have to correct myself when talking about small towns, as I always want to call them country towns, but in the UK they are villages. :-) Often villages, although quite separate, can be only 2 miles apart.
The reception was fun. We met some new people, which was nice considering we didn't know anyone. The pub was sweet with a real character. We met a guy called Jeff, who is very funny. He has told us we have to go to Edinburgh for the Festival. I would love to, and now we have someone to meet up with, it should be great. We got back to our hotel, in the next village, at about 1am, to sleep in a four poster bed.
The next morning we took a train from the nearest station, Huntingdon, to Peterborough. From there we looked at where the trains went, and then headed to York. It was a great choice, and we arrived about 2pm, and found our hotel we had previously booked from the Lonely Planet guide. Dumped our bag and then hit the town. We wandered about, and we found a German market - complete with sausages and beer. We found what we wanted to see, which was the Jorvik viking centre. It is a museum over the site that archaeologists found the remains of the viking settlement of York, called Jorvik by the vikings themselves. We went on a ride through the viking village, complete with sights AND smells. It was fantastic, thoroughly enjoyable. From there we wandered down to the river, as we had decided to do a ghost boat cruise at 7pm. In the meantime we hired a putt putt boat and dorve up and down the river for half an hour. That was really fun. I got to drive!! The ghost cruise was funny, a bit tacky, but the guy dressed up had some good stories. We had some dinner after the cruise at a pub looking over the River Ouse "ooze" :-)
The next morning we had a yummy hot breakfast to keep us going for a touristy day. We checked out and headed to the York Castle Museum. That was a very good museum, with lots of reconstructions of streets and scenes, which I think museums should do more of. That way, people can see how the objects were used originally, and not just in a glass case. From there we headed to the Richard III museum, which is in one of the gates of the old city walls. Then it was on to the Minster. The Minster is stunning, and huge. It is a huge church or cathedral, which dominates the York skyline. We had a look in the crypt as well. There are lots of stained glass windows which are lovely, many of which are still the original medieval windows.
From the Minster we took a train, that was really a truck with trailers for the passengers, to the National Railway Museum. The NRM is the largest railway museum in the world. It was very interesting, with lots of big trains and sights to see. We walked in a bullet train, wandered in the open store, took lots of pics, saw a demonstration of a turntable. After the Museum we had a ride on the York wheel, which is a smaller than the London Eye but it gave us a lovely view of the city. After the museum, as we were kicked out at 6pm, we wandered back into town and grabbed some dinner. We started off in a Turkish restaurant but the guy was so rude to us when we entered that we left. I hate it when people in restaurants tell me where I can and cannot sit when I ask nicely. The restaurant was not full, and there were two people sitting at a table for 4 (which is where I wanted to sit but we were told no). So we walked out. We ended up in a Chinese place up the road which was very nice. Then it was back to London on the train and home from the station on the night bus.
This week at work I have endured training. It has not been too bad. They have not made me do everything, and it has been nice to get to know the newbies.
Oh, I almost forgot... I received my UK drivers licence in the post yesterday. YAY!!!!
Friday, June 02, 2006
Hello
We are off to a wedding tomorrow, in Cambridge. I am really looking forward to it. We were going to hire a car, but my licence has not come through, so we shall be catching the train. I am a bit disappointed, but c'est la vie. We will enjoy the train journey and we will be getting out of London for the weekend.
Work is pretty busy today as it is school holidays here. We have had a drama session on today. We have actors come in and pretend they are certain characters from history to entertain visitors. We had a pub landlady in today, Maeve Dawson. She is fantastic. I think I have seen her performance about 15 times over the past year, and she never fails to make me giggle. She talks about her life in the pub in a street near the river Thames. She pulls quite a crowd too. They all squish into her pub and listen to her stories. I particularly like when she talks about the smells of the streets and the river. She puts it ever so politely when she mentions horse manure, but there is always one child who yells out "poo!!" :-D
I have the next four days off work. I start my training for the full time permanent position next week when I get back. I have also said that I will start work at 7.15am on Thursday. Not sure who on earth would choose to be in that early, but the money is always handy. :-)
I shall post photos of the wedding and our adventures in Cambridgeshire next week.
:-)
We are off to a wedding tomorrow, in Cambridge. I am really looking forward to it. We were going to hire a car, but my licence has not come through, so we shall be catching the train. I am a bit disappointed, but c'est la vie. We will enjoy the train journey and we will be getting out of London for the weekend.
Work is pretty busy today as it is school holidays here. We have had a drama session on today. We have actors come in and pretend they are certain characters from history to entertain visitors. We had a pub landlady in today, Maeve Dawson. She is fantastic. I think I have seen her performance about 15 times over the past year, and she never fails to make me giggle. She talks about her life in the pub in a street near the river Thames. She pulls quite a crowd too. They all squish into her pub and listen to her stories. I particularly like when she talks about the smells of the streets and the river. She puts it ever so politely when she mentions horse manure, but there is always one child who yells out "poo!!" :-D
I have the next four days off work. I start my training for the full time permanent position next week when I get back. I have also said that I will start work at 7.15am on Thursday. Not sure who on earth would choose to be in that early, but the money is always handy. :-)
I shall post photos of the wedding and our adventures in Cambridgeshire next week.
:-)
Monday, May 29, 2006
Hello all!
'Tis a long post this one!! Just a friendly warning. :-)
We had a lovely weekend. Saturday was a catch up day. We had to wait around for two sets of people to come and fix things in the flat. Our cooker broke last week (when I say broke, that's not quite true. I asked them to have a look because I could not use the oven or the griller). The person who came to look at it on Wednesday said that we need a new one, and turned it off. So we have had no cooking facilities in the flat since then. We also needed to get the timer on the boiler replaced. The boiler man came in the early afternoon and replaced the timer with a shiny new one. He also turned up the temperature of the hot water, and will recommend that the boiler be re-wired, as apparently as it is now we cannot turn on the hot water without turning on the heating. That will become a pain in the winter time so he says. I asked him how old he reckons the boiler is, and he said 25 years. So it's almost as old as me! About time it got rewired methinks!!
The cooker man did not turn up as apparently our supremely well organised real estate agent did not approve the order until Friday evening so he could not go pick up the new cooker on Saturday morning. So he will come tomorrow, as it is a bank holiday here today.
After we got rid of the boiler man, Scott and I walked up to Canary Wharf to see a film. We saw X-Men The Final Stand. I don't remember seeing the other ones, I mean I must have. Anyway, it was very good. A good story, with an ending that could mean they will make a next one. And Hugh Jackman is cute. After that movie, we decided to see another one. We saw The Wild. A kids movie, but very funny. The best line in it? There was a part in the story where they were all running away from something, and the koala says "I don't want to run anymore". The giraffe, Bridget, says to him "Good, because you really need to buy a good sports bra". Tops. That had tears rolling down my cheeks.
Sunday morning we got up early and met Isa at her house. Then we travelled to Victoria station on the tube and took the train to Chatham, as we were headed for the Chatham Historic Dockyards. The train took about 45 minutes. Chatham is in Kent. Scott and I had been meaning to go there for a while actually, not only to have a look around, but Scott had tracked down the records of one of his ancestors at one of the museums there. Constable Gibson was Scott's great grandfather, I think. His service record lives at the Kent Police Museum, which is in the dockyard complex. Scott had written to the curator last year sometime, and he was there on Sunday. We spoke to him and he told Scott that his next step would have to be the Centre for Kentish Studies.
We arrived at the Dockyard at about 11.15. Coincidentally they had a maritime festival on at the dockyard. It was not all that big a festival, but there were displays from various maritime organisations, stalls for fundraising, food stalls. The dockyard complex is huge. We headed right to the far end, so we could work our way back towards the exit. We started with the Ropery. We learned all about rope, how it is made, what it is made from. Very really interesting stuff. And we saw a demonstration of rope making, using some kids from the audience. From there we wandered about, taking a look at the sailing boats on the River Medway, listening to canons being fired.
We had a wander on HMS Cavalier, which was interesting, but there were few signs to say what things were, and there were no audio guides. But, Scott and I made the decision yesterday that we will go back there, as there was no way we would get to see everything in one day. Usually the dockyard issues annual tickets, like my work, and rightly so. We didn't even attempt the large museum on the site, as it had 23,000 square feet of displays - something we would need a whole day to do properly. I really must find out how many square feet my museum is, then at least I would have something to compare it to. My museum is huge, and really needs several visits to do it justice.
After a busy day, we were all tired. We caught the bus back into Chatham, and hopped on a train home. Luckily the next train went to Charing Cross, which meant it went a slightly different way from the train we took to Chatham. We did not have to go all the way into central London, as the train stopped off in south east London, which meant we could connect to the Docklands Light Railway to get home quicker. I had a lovely day, and we had a quiet evening when we got home. A nice long hot bath topped it all off. :-)
This photo was taken in the ropery. Once the fibres have been combed and straightened, they are placed into buckets, and are then drawn into the machine and twisted to make rope, or depending how thick the rope is, strands of rope.
'Tis a long post this one!! Just a friendly warning. :-)
We had a lovely weekend. Saturday was a catch up day. We had to wait around for two sets of people to come and fix things in the flat. Our cooker broke last week (when I say broke, that's not quite true. I asked them to have a look because I could not use the oven or the griller). The person who came to look at it on Wednesday said that we need a new one, and turned it off. So we have had no cooking facilities in the flat since then. We also needed to get the timer on the boiler replaced. The boiler man came in the early afternoon and replaced the timer with a shiny new one. He also turned up the temperature of the hot water, and will recommend that the boiler be re-wired, as apparently as it is now we cannot turn on the hot water without turning on the heating. That will become a pain in the winter time so he says. I asked him how old he reckons the boiler is, and he said 25 years. So it's almost as old as me! About time it got rewired methinks!!
The cooker man did not turn up as apparently our supremely well organised real estate agent did not approve the order until Friday evening so he could not go pick up the new cooker on Saturday morning. So he will come tomorrow, as it is a bank holiday here today.
After we got rid of the boiler man, Scott and I walked up to Canary Wharf to see a film. We saw X-Men The Final Stand. I don't remember seeing the other ones, I mean I must have. Anyway, it was very good. A good story, with an ending that could mean they will make a next one. And Hugh Jackman is cute. After that movie, we decided to see another one. We saw The Wild. A kids movie, but very funny. The best line in it? There was a part in the story where they were all running away from something, and the koala says "I don't want to run anymore". The giraffe, Bridget, says to him "Good, because you really need to buy a good sports bra". Tops. That had tears rolling down my cheeks.
Sunday morning we got up early and met Isa at her house. Then we travelled to Victoria station on the tube and took the train to Chatham, as we were headed for the Chatham Historic Dockyards. The train took about 45 minutes. Chatham is in Kent. Scott and I had been meaning to go there for a while actually, not only to have a look around, but Scott had tracked down the records of one of his ancestors at one of the museums there. Constable Gibson was Scott's great grandfather, I think. His service record lives at the Kent Police Museum, which is in the dockyard complex. Scott had written to the curator last year sometime, and he was there on Sunday. We spoke to him and he told Scott that his next step would have to be the Centre for Kentish Studies.
We arrived at the Dockyard at about 11.15. Coincidentally they had a maritime festival on at the dockyard. It was not all that big a festival, but there were displays from various maritime organisations, stalls for fundraising, food stalls. The dockyard complex is huge. We headed right to the far end, so we could work our way back towards the exit. We started with the Ropery. We learned all about rope, how it is made, what it is made from. Very really interesting stuff. And we saw a demonstration of rope making, using some kids from the audience. From there we wandered about, taking a look at the sailing boats on the River Medway, listening to canons being fired.
We had a wander on HMS Cavalier, which was interesting, but there were few signs to say what things were, and there were no audio guides. But, Scott and I made the decision yesterday that we will go back there, as there was no way we would get to see everything in one day. Usually the dockyard issues annual tickets, like my work, and rightly so. We didn't even attempt the large museum on the site, as it had 23,000 square feet of displays - something we would need a whole day to do properly. I really must find out how many square feet my museum is, then at least I would have something to compare it to. My museum is huge, and really needs several visits to do it justice.
After a busy day, we were all tired. We caught the bus back into Chatham, and hopped on a train home. Luckily the next train went to Charing Cross, which meant it went a slightly different way from the train we took to Chatham. We did not have to go all the way into central London, as the train stopped off in south east London, which meant we could connect to the Docklands Light Railway to get home quicker. I had a lovely day, and we had a quiet evening when we got home. A nice long hot bath topped it all off. :-)
This photo was taken in the ropery. Once the fibres have been combed and straightened, they are placed into buckets, and are then drawn into the machine and twisted to make rope, or depending how thick the rope is, strands of rope.
I love this photo. The display of historic divers were drying off the suits used in previous dives, upside down of course. Behind the suit is one of the warships, HMS Cavalier.
These very fine young men were putting on a display of unarmed combat. It was pretty much like wrestling, but involved plastic weapons as well. They were all very good actors, and the display was fun to watch.
These floor boards were found a couple of years ago under 7 layers of flooring. There was a practice of reusing timbers, so the timbers which were found are in fact from ships various. Archaeologists are studying the timbers to find out about ship building practices, and about repairs as well.
This is one of the divers we saw going under. You can't see them when they are under water, as it was a bit murky, all you can see is the bubbles. This is him hauling himself out of the water. His suit weighs 90kg, which is the weight of another person! I have seen these divers before, but it never ceases to amaze me how they did it, and how they manage to pull themselves out of the water!!
This is in the ropery, the real working bit. You can see plastic fibres in the photo, which will be combed and twisted and made into rope. At the end of our tour, we had the opportunity to buy rope they had made there.
This is Scott and I, looking very Victorian, don't you think? I love these, they make me laugh.
This is Isa and I. Ahoy!
Another upside down suit from the divers.
I love these cranes. We have some near work and near where we live. They look so graceful and majestic, and yet sad, because they are no longer working. They are idle after many years of loading and unloading ships various. It looks almost like they are keeping watch over the docks.
Friday, May 26, 2006
This is the best website for a museum I have ever seen!!
http://www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/index.html
:-P
http://www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/index.html
:-P
I am sitting in the call centre of my museum. Yes, we all thought that I had left, but I am doing the occasional day here at the moment to cover people who decide to call in sick/dead/whatever. I don't mind doing the odd day. It gives me a chance to catch up on things on the internet (if anything actually happened on there of course!!!) if we are not too busy. Today I was reasonably busy. We had lots of labels to stick on envelopes. The new schools brochure will be going out shortly for the new school year (which starts in Sept.).
Other than that, things are going well with me. I should be starting my job (the one I already do) on the 5th June. Well, actually on the 7th of June, as I have booked the 5th and 6th off as holidays anyway. We will be going to our friends' wedding. Sarah and Jake are getting hitched in Cambridge then the reception is in a small town not too far from there. We are staying the night in yet another town, as the village where the reception is has no accommodation. So I arranged to hire a car, so we could take advantage of being in the countryside and actually see some of it. Both Scott and I have taken the Monday and Tuesday off work, so we have a lovely 4 day weekend. I arranged to swap my Aussie licence for a UK one, thinking that they would do it on the spot, but that is not the case. I have to wait 3 WEEKS!!! Not happy, Jan. But I have not cancelled the car. I will leave that til the very very last minute. I have until 24 hours before then to see if my licence arrives. The guy beside me at the licence office said his friend's licence took only a week, so there is hope. Murphy's Law would be that my licence will be waiting for me when we get back from the wedding!! We'll see.
The flat is really great. Scott and I sat in the garden for a while after getting home from work. The weather was getting a bit cool, but the garden is really private. I had spent an hour sitting in a park near work with my friend from work, Isa. We were soaking up some sun. It is a lovely park, completely surrounded by tall office buildings, but peaceful and the same time. In summer here everybody goes out in the sun, to absorb as much vitamin d as they can before it disappears again!!
In other news, we get a new cooker tomorrow, and a new timer for our boiler. Very exciting - not. :-)
So the plans for this weekend are to wait around while various workpeople install shiny new things in my kitchen. Then what we do after that depends on the time and the weather. Scott has to work on Sunday and Monday I think (Monday is a bank holiday) and I am working on Monday in the call centre again. So on Sunday I think I shall go somewhere nice with Isa. Perhaps to Greenwich. I love Greenwich, it's bustling and interesting and there are always people around. They have a great market too. So, depending on ye olde finances... Regardless of what we do, I am looking forward to three weekends off work in a row!!
Other than that, things are going well with me. I should be starting my job (the one I already do) on the 5th June. Well, actually on the 7th of June, as I have booked the 5th and 6th off as holidays anyway. We will be going to our friends' wedding. Sarah and Jake are getting hitched in Cambridge then the reception is in a small town not too far from there. We are staying the night in yet another town, as the village where the reception is has no accommodation. So I arranged to hire a car, so we could take advantage of being in the countryside and actually see some of it. Both Scott and I have taken the Monday and Tuesday off work, so we have a lovely 4 day weekend. I arranged to swap my Aussie licence for a UK one, thinking that they would do it on the spot, but that is not the case. I have to wait 3 WEEKS!!! Not happy, Jan. But I have not cancelled the car. I will leave that til the very very last minute. I have until 24 hours before then to see if my licence arrives. The guy beside me at the licence office said his friend's licence took only a week, so there is hope. Murphy's Law would be that my licence will be waiting for me when we get back from the wedding!! We'll see.
The flat is really great. Scott and I sat in the garden for a while after getting home from work. The weather was getting a bit cool, but the garden is really private. I had spent an hour sitting in a park near work with my friend from work, Isa. We were soaking up some sun. It is a lovely park, completely surrounded by tall office buildings, but peaceful and the same time. In summer here everybody goes out in the sun, to absorb as much vitamin d as they can before it disappears again!!
In other news, we get a new cooker tomorrow, and a new timer for our boiler. Very exciting - not. :-)
So the plans for this weekend are to wait around while various workpeople install shiny new things in my kitchen. Then what we do after that depends on the time and the weather. Scott has to work on Sunday and Monday I think (Monday is a bank holiday) and I am working on Monday in the call centre again. So on Sunday I think I shall go somewhere nice with Isa. Perhaps to Greenwich. I love Greenwich, it's bustling and interesting and there are always people around. They have a great market too. So, depending on ye olde finances... Regardless of what we do, I am looking forward to three weekends off work in a row!!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Apart from the fact that my museum's treasure for the BBC's People's Museum has been voted in, nothing much to report here really. I am very excited that my museum will be a part of it. My museum is only new (in London terms anyway). We are three years old. So this is a great honour. It really is a fantastic museum, and one I would highly recommend to all!!
I am wary of putting the link in my journal (I don't really want all the internet weirdos out there to know where I work...), so to whoever reads this, if I forgot to email you, please let me know and I shall email you think link!!
xxx
I am wary of putting the link in my journal (I don't really want all the internet weirdos out there to know where I work...), so to whoever reads this, if I forgot to email you, please let me know and I shall email you think link!!
xxx
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