Although apparently it’s not too late to get a Glastonbury ticket, by making it through Sunday without trying to buy one, I suppose I made a final commitment not to go. So I won’t be having a riot of a time in June, like this cheery young man, in what for me is the […]
Often, we visit my parents over Easter weekend. Since we were in Egypt this time, we went the following weekend instead.
It was very pleasant, but over all too quickly.
Friday: arrived late, presented them with an Aladdin lamp, ate, went to bed
Saturday: sat out the nasty rainy morning, then after lunch went to Aberystwyth for […]
Gosh, haven’t I been lax about blogging?
Last week, or is it the week before, we went to Egypt. More specifically, Dahab on the East coast of the Sinai peninsula, where you can Saudi Arabia over the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aquaba on a clear day. Most days are, of course, pretty clear.
Sinai is pretty […]
I took Friday off so we could travel to my parents. We took a new route suggested by the Tom Tom, which diverges from our usual route in Welshpool, heading for Machynlleth instead of Newtown, and it made a pleasant change.
On Saturday, Mum and Dad took us to Newquay where we visited the exhibition […]
Sean is a sober person, unsuited to the typical rowdy boys-only stag night, and so instead he invited friends of both genders to his house for an evening of retro-gaming and conversation.
Meanwhile his fiancee Karen lived it up in that posh London. Who knows what went on?
A nice time was had by all. Many […]
A packed weekend!
Saturday morning was reasonably relaxed, admittedly, which is a good thing because the guest IPA at the Jug for our Happy Friday visit was made of rocket fuel or something.
Leamington were entertaining Retford United for an FA Vase match. Because of the anticipated large crowds, we used the park and ride facility. […]
Last Wednesday Debbie and I braved the threat of snow to drive up to Nottingham to see The Decemberists at Trent University students’ union.
In the morning, I had cleverly put the tickets in my laptop bag, so I couldn’t possibly forget to take them to work. Then, when Debbie picked me up from work, […]
Starting when we were students at Aston, and continuing after we graduated and still lived in Birmingham, we frequented a comedy night called the GAG Club. The GAG Club is not to be confused with the Glee Club. The Glee Club is a corporate hospitality provider with comedians. The GAG Club was a weekly […]
After last year’s enjoyable evening in the company of Godfrey Salter and his Invisible Ducks, I was pleased to see the return of the Flatpack Film Festival. On Friday, this year’s equivalent event was entitled “Hocus Focus”, and promised an odd Czech dream-onset-of-puberty-witch-vampire film, some live music and, er, more.
I invited the Happy Friday […]
To be honest, I didn’t know where Tintern was when Mum told us we’d be there. I had assumed it was near Swansea for some reason. That’s why I proposed to Chris and Rae that we could visit them in Blackwood. It turned out to be an hour or so’s drive — not so […]