It was my birthday on Wednesday. I ended up trying to fix Ed's computer in the morning but then in the evening Rob came around to collect the kids so we had a kid-free night.
We went to our usual spot on top of the hill and actually went for a walk.
Later on we rode to the Air Balloon, a nice but quite pricey pub that does do rather good food. We sat in an area with candles on the table - that was the only lighting. Apparently the only reason it was like that was because the electrics had gone in that area - we didn't care, it was very romantic :) Kept trying to work out if the only other people in this area, two young women, were partners or not.
The meal and the company were fantastic :) We went back via Sainsbury's to get some alcohol and
Went back and had a couple of relaxing drinks before dragging ourselves to bed. A very nice relaxing evening :)
Went to London with
One more piece of whinge - it got rather free-for-all on the boating lake when Captain Bastard and his motley crew of mutineers decided everything was fair game towards the end and grabbed my bike leather. I hung on to it and the inner lining got ripped in the process. Bah humbug for being too boisterous.
Well, now that's all out of the way I did in fact have a good time in between all that. Don't think I spoke to
Start from the beginning? Oh all right. We all descended on my Mum's on Friday night - I've known
We went into London to go to
After general celebrations and boisterousness down the Ben Crouch1 we went off and stayed at a couple of
On Sunday we visited Cathy, another friend of
It confirmed a lot of things I thought were possibly just skewed by my own personal experience - there have been a lot more civil wars, a lot more natural disasters, storms and changeable (hotter) weather in the last decade than ever before. Humanity is still hugely divided and steaming straight ahead towards a frightening future as depicted by books such as 1984 by George Orwell on a sociological front as well as some sort of apocalyptic event as depicted in science-fiction films and books too numerous to mention.
At the same time the pictures were very beautiful and made you realise how little of the world you have seen. Even
One last thing - in all the confusion and panic that happened on Friday with the arrangements - I wasn't sure if we were going up on bike or going by car. When
Pictures available later, possibly in
1 No not rhyming slang, the actual pub's name - a goth themed pub which was really quite cool - except they were playing R&B! I mean!