The Last Fornight...
Once again, it has been yonks since i last updated this thing. Today is Friday 14th July and i will briefly go over what has happened so far in July for us.
30th June was a Friday night and once we finished work we both met up and caught a train to Barnsley. My parents had returned from there Britain tour and were in Barnsley with Graeme so the whole purpose of the trip was to catch up with family. We arrived about 8pm and Graeme had cooked tea for us all.
The Saturday was England vs Portugal so that was interesting. We walked up to the cricket oval and every house you passed you could either see them watching the game, or hear them cheering. We watched the penalties from Groms home when we returned and when England lost, dead silence. Its amazing the excuses they come up with over hear. Every loss either its someones fault or something didn't go there way. Its never we weren't good enough and we lost.
We went out Saturday night and had a Chinese buffet. It was ok, but nothing special. Sunday we left in the morning and went to Meadowhall, which is a little city a few trainstops away that has connected to the train station, the cities main shopping mall. Its actually pretty huge so its interesting to walk around. After that we went to Sheffield for a bit but there wasn't that much there. Thats when Renee and I continued to Manchester on our way home while Mum, Dad and Grom returned to Barnsley.
Weekend over, and back to another exciting week of work. Renee found out that her work has a 2 week shutdown for the first 2 weeks of August. I enquired about getting the holidays off but as it was kinda late and people had already arranged it off, i couldn't get it. In the end we decided it would probably be best if i left as if we dont travel while we are here, it really defeats the purpose of being here. I told them i was going to leave and that afternoon they said i could have the holidays if i wanted. At that point we didn't know if Renee had a job to come back to after the shutdown so i said we would think about it. If we both didn't have jobs here, we were thinking of moving to Oxford or somewhere around that region. In the end it looks like Renee has her job so we will be staying in Manchester. After thinking about it i told work what was happening and that i was still going to leave. Its not a great job and hopefully i will be able to pick up something a little better. When we first arrived here we were so in need of jobs i had worked a full week at this place before even knowing how much i got paid. Funny... Well funny to me.
The Friday night we left straight from work again and went to the train station. This time we were going to Edinburgh. We eventually arrived up there about 9pm and caught up with Nicole. Renee was excited to see a good friend over here. The Saturday we went to Edinburgh Castle and walked along the Royal Mile. Other than walking, we didn't do a lot else on the Saturday. We had tea at a nice Mexican photos and there should be a few interesting photos at some point. We didn't have our camera with us so Nicole has those photos. We asked someone to take our photo so they brought over some Sombreros for us to wear. Interesting....
The Sunday we got on a sightseeing bus which was good. Showed us more of Edinburgh but was also informative so we knew what we were looking at. We saw Elephant House Cafe were JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter while sipping her coffee. We also saw where Graham Alexander Bell lived. We went into an old style home on the royal mile which was done up exactly how it would have been back in the olden days. Sunday afternoon we caught a train back to Manchester and eventually got home at about 11pm. More tired on the Monday morning than when we left on the Friday afternoon, we went to work.
As i said at the beginning, its now Friday night here. Tomorrow morning we catch a train to London to see my parents again. We are going to go on the London Eye and also have tickets to the stage show Guys and Dolls. When we bought the tickets to the show Patrick Swayze was supposed to be the lead actor in it. It would have been exactly 1 week since he took over the role. Due to a stomach virus he couldnt do rehearsals so his debut has been delayed 2 weeks, leaving us with someone else. For me its not a bad thing, but i think it disappoints Renee and my mum a bit. Oh well.. Such is Life.
I will put photos of Edinburgh on later when i have more time and actually have some energy.
30th June was a Friday night and once we finished work we both met up and caught a train to Barnsley. My parents had returned from there Britain tour and were in Barnsley with Graeme so the whole purpose of the trip was to catch up with family. We arrived about 8pm and Graeme had cooked tea for us all.
The Saturday was England vs Portugal so that was interesting. We walked up to the cricket oval and every house you passed you could either see them watching the game, or hear them cheering. We watched the penalties from Groms home when we returned and when England lost, dead silence. Its amazing the excuses they come up with over hear. Every loss either its someones fault or something didn't go there way. Its never we weren't good enough and we lost.
We went out Saturday night and had a Chinese buffet. It was ok, but nothing special. Sunday we left in the morning and went to Meadowhall, which is a little city a few trainstops away that has connected to the train station, the cities main shopping mall. Its actually pretty huge so its interesting to walk around. After that we went to Sheffield for a bit but there wasn't that much there. Thats when Renee and I continued to Manchester on our way home while Mum, Dad and Grom returned to Barnsley.
Weekend over, and back to another exciting week of work. Renee found out that her work has a 2 week shutdown for the first 2 weeks of August. I enquired about getting the holidays off but as it was kinda late and people had already arranged it off, i couldn't get it. In the end we decided it would probably be best if i left as if we dont travel while we are here, it really defeats the purpose of being here. I told them i was going to leave and that afternoon they said i could have the holidays if i wanted. At that point we didn't know if Renee had a job to come back to after the shutdown so i said we would think about it. If we both didn't have jobs here, we were thinking of moving to Oxford or somewhere around that region. In the end it looks like Renee has her job so we will be staying in Manchester. After thinking about it i told work what was happening and that i was still going to leave. Its not a great job and hopefully i will be able to pick up something a little better. When we first arrived here we were so in need of jobs i had worked a full week at this place before even knowing how much i got paid. Funny... Well funny to me.
The Friday night we left straight from work again and went to the train station. This time we were going to Edinburgh. We eventually arrived up there about 9pm and caught up with Nicole. Renee was excited to see a good friend over here. The Saturday we went to Edinburgh Castle and walked along the Royal Mile. Other than walking, we didn't do a lot else on the Saturday. We had tea at a nice Mexican photos and there should be a few interesting photos at some point. We didn't have our camera with us so Nicole has those photos. We asked someone to take our photo so they brought over some Sombreros for us to wear. Interesting....
The Sunday we got on a sightseeing bus which was good. Showed us more of Edinburgh but was also informative so we knew what we were looking at. We saw Elephant House Cafe were JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter while sipping her coffee. We also saw where Graham Alexander Bell lived. We went into an old style home on the royal mile which was done up exactly how it would have been back in the olden days. Sunday afternoon we caught a train back to Manchester and eventually got home at about 11pm. More tired on the Monday morning than when we left on the Friday afternoon, we went to work.
As i said at the beginning, its now Friday night here. Tomorrow morning we catch a train to London to see my parents again. We are going to go on the London Eye and also have tickets to the stage show Guys and Dolls. When we bought the tickets to the show Patrick Swayze was supposed to be the lead actor in it. It would have been exactly 1 week since he took over the role. Due to a stomach virus he couldnt do rehearsals so his debut has been delayed 2 weeks, leaving us with someone else. For me its not a bad thing, but i think it disappoints Renee and my mum a bit. Oh well.. Such is Life.
I will put photos of Edinburgh on later when i have more time and actually have some energy.
