Have no place I can be, since I found Serenity
OK, the title is obvious, if you know these things. No relevance really, but a line from the theme to Joss Whedon's wonderful Firefly.
Well, it's my second day back at work after our couple of days last week. Someone wake me please, I'm bored rigid here. I'd finished the work before I went to lunch.
So, what's been occurring? Let's be boring and do this in chronological order. Conformist yes, but it's easier to remember things that way!
So Wednesday evening... Sue picked me up from work, we grabbed a meal in the Sainsbury's café picked our stuff up from home and headed and for Lincoln. After stopping at a service station at Peterborough, (where we weren't served by a very stroppy boy of around 12 with an attitude problem) we arrived at the Travelodge at about 10.30 and had an early night.
Thursday was kickstarted with a breakfast at the Little Chef before heading into Lincoln. We wandered up to the old part of town. It's allegedly very steep, but to be honest, neither of us could see what all the fuss was about. Even an unfit fat blob like me coped ok. We visited the Cathedral, which was as good an example of medieval building as I've seen. Stunning. (Not as sturdy as some, bits have fallen off over the years.) The only draw back was the mini sermon we got over the tannoy at around mid day. Some pompous, self righteous curate or some such frock-wearing, smug middle aged man was telling us all to pray for Christian Unity. If anyone wonders why the C of E is struggling, they should listen to people like him. The further I get along in life, the less tolerant I'm becoming of all that mumbo jumbo I'm afraid.
We had a nice lunch in a café before wandering round the town. It's a very nice place actually. We headed back for the Travelodge, dined in the Little Chef again. (Something to do with the 20% discount vouchers we were given!) Got back to the room to watch Eleventh Hour with Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen. Good stuff... PS plays a government scientist that tracks down dodgy practitioners of science (eg human cloning as in this episode.) Will be continuing to watch. Seems funny to see PS with traces of his 'native' Yorkshireness! Also finished reading the John Peel/Sheila Ravenscroft Margrave of the Marshes which is effectively the much missed Peel's autobiography. A very good read.
Off to Stamford the following morning, which is a lovely, unspoilt town. We were back in Chelmsford at about 5. After checking my ebay, we walked over to the Harvester for dinner.
We'd got home to find the heating and hot water had packed up, so a guy was called out and duly arrived late Saturday afternoon, unable to fix the problem there and then. I'd wandered into town to search out some packaging for the ebay selling, and then went on to see Chelmsford City take on Leyton at the new ground. The game ended 1-1, and was good fun. City equalised about 8 minutes into stoppage time... there was so much of it, I was beginning to wonder if I was at Old Trafford! Not the most exciting of games, but I'll be back, and will almost certainly get a season ticket for 06/07.
Elsewhere, Spurs outplayed Villa, but were held 0-0 (typical, with the Arse losing.) O's won 2-1 at Wrexham... they are still 4th. Oh, and I picked up 4 numbers on the lotto... and won £88.00! Wihoo!
On Sunday, we headed to Canons to shower, and then to Barleylands for the craft centre. Interesting... got lots of stuff... we'll be making cards together, I think that'll be a fun hobby to share. We called in via Brentwood to see Mum and Alex... had a look on ebay. I made a grand total of £120 or so, so I'm pretty chuffed. The 1968 Wisden sold for a monster £46!
Started getting the ebay stuff out yesterday. Sue went out with Helen, and I got frozen! Earlyish night when Sue got back. Was nice to sit back and watch last week's Stargate Atlantis. OK, it's far from the best, but it's fun.
Fortunately, the heating was sorted today, so I'm looking forward to a nice shave and a shower with some warm water when I get back. Had a nice online chat with Kar again this morning... she has a couple of interviews for jobs in Motherwell on Thursday, so it'll be great if she can snag either of those.
Right, nature calls. (Like you wanted to know that!) and it's time to sign off.
Well, it's my second day back at work after our couple of days last week. Someone wake me please, I'm bored rigid here. I'd finished the work before I went to lunch.
So, what's been occurring? Let's be boring and do this in chronological order. Conformist yes, but it's easier to remember things that way!
So Wednesday evening... Sue picked me up from work, we grabbed a meal in the Sainsbury's café picked our stuff up from home and headed and for Lincoln. After stopping at a service station at Peterborough, (where we weren't served by a very stroppy boy of around 12 with an attitude problem) we arrived at the Travelodge at about 10.30 and had an early night.
Thursday was kickstarted with a breakfast at the Little Chef before heading into Lincoln. We wandered up to the old part of town. It's allegedly very steep, but to be honest, neither of us could see what all the fuss was about. Even an unfit fat blob like me coped ok. We visited the Cathedral, which was as good an example of medieval building as I've seen. Stunning. (Not as sturdy as some, bits have fallen off over the years.) The only draw back was the mini sermon we got over the tannoy at around mid day. Some pompous, self righteous curate or some such frock-wearing, smug middle aged man was telling us all to pray for Christian Unity. If anyone wonders why the C of E is struggling, they should listen to people like him. The further I get along in life, the less tolerant I'm becoming of all that mumbo jumbo I'm afraid.
We had a nice lunch in a café before wandering round the town. It's a very nice place actually. We headed back for the Travelodge, dined in the Little Chef again. (Something to do with the 20% discount vouchers we were given!) Got back to the room to watch Eleventh Hour with Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen. Good stuff... PS plays a government scientist that tracks down dodgy practitioners of science (eg human cloning as in this episode.) Will be continuing to watch. Seems funny to see PS with traces of his 'native' Yorkshireness! Also finished reading the John Peel/Sheila Ravenscroft Margrave of the Marshes which is effectively the much missed Peel's autobiography. A very good read.
Off to Stamford the following morning, which is a lovely, unspoilt town. We were back in Chelmsford at about 5. After checking my ebay, we walked over to the Harvester for dinner.
We'd got home to find the heating and hot water had packed up, so a guy was called out and duly arrived late Saturday afternoon, unable to fix the problem there and then. I'd wandered into town to search out some packaging for the ebay selling, and then went on to see Chelmsford City take on Leyton at the new ground. The game ended 1-1, and was good fun. City equalised about 8 minutes into stoppage time... there was so much of it, I was beginning to wonder if I was at Old Trafford! Not the most exciting of games, but I'll be back, and will almost certainly get a season ticket for 06/07.
Elsewhere, Spurs outplayed Villa, but were held 0-0 (typical, with the Arse losing.) O's won 2-1 at Wrexham... they are still 4th. Oh, and I picked up 4 numbers on the lotto... and won £88.00! Wihoo!
On Sunday, we headed to Canons to shower, and then to Barleylands for the craft centre. Interesting... got lots of stuff... we'll be making cards together, I think that'll be a fun hobby to share. We called in via Brentwood to see Mum and Alex... had a look on ebay. I made a grand total of £120 or so, so I'm pretty chuffed. The 1968 Wisden sold for a monster £46!
Started getting the ebay stuff out yesterday. Sue went out with Helen, and I got frozen! Earlyish night when Sue got back. Was nice to sit back and watch last week's Stargate Atlantis. OK, it's far from the best, but it's fun.
Fortunately, the heating was sorted today, so I'm looking forward to a nice shave and a shower with some warm water when I get back. Had a nice online chat with Kar again this morning... she has a couple of interviews for jobs in Motherwell on Thursday, so it'll be great if she can snag either of those.
Right, nature calls. (Like you wanted to know that!) and it's time to sign off.
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