phew, i've had a pretty busy couple of weeks. ironically, this means that although i potentially have plenty to post about, i haven't had the time to do it. this is in part the fault of facebook, to which i am many of my friends have become thoroughly addicted. i think what i'll do is summarise the main events of the past two weeks.
firstly, but not leastly, a bunch of us went over to liverpool, to assist deb in the celebration of her birthday. she chose to stage a picnic, which we all agreed was a unique idea. on paper, the idea was a little reckless, scheduled to occur during the wettest start to a summer in england and wales on record. yet, the plentiful white fluffy clouds of the morning thinned out enough for the sun to shine. i would like to use this platform to lodge an official protest against the cheating ways of team michelle, who massively cheated at rounders. even after lying about the score (claiming they got 27), tripping, heckling, and even having the umpire in their collective pocket, they could only beat us by two points. hah, imagine the victory that would have been ours if we had had the foresight to cheat. a handful of pictures from the day can be seen here.
we also went to another wedding, the second of three this year. this time, we only went to the evening do, which was staged at barwick village hall. we arrived a little early, in time to witness the arrival of the wedding party on a big vintage open-top double-decker bus. special mention must be made of roadrunners taxis, who, after initially stating a cab would take '15 minutes', then '5 minutes' (half an hour later), then 'he's just coming down your road', managed to muster no less than five taxis. we jumping in the first, leaving the other four looking puzzled and muttering amongst themselves.
the bread in the above wedding sandwich was dean's birthday. we couldn't make the satuday barbecue (which didn't happen anyway, due to the wettest start to a summer in england and wales on record). but we went over to baildon and stayed over on friday night, and returned on the sunday morning in time for a rachel breakfast special. luckily, dean hadn't bought a copy of the latest municipal waste record. the boy in hmv mistook me for a fan, and started babbling on about how good the record was, and whether i liked his friend's band; i had to confess to severe musical differences to dean. on the way home on sunday, we made an impulse purchase of a rug, which has effectively completed our living room. boy, does furnishing a new house take forever? answer = yes, it does.
on tuesday this week, we had a 'community day' at work. this entailed us (management included) downing our keyboards and travelling to beeston, a suburb of leeds. here, we were to labour on behalf of groundwork, which is an environmental regeneration charity. our task was the tidying up of a small wood, no more than a tiny copse really. we were so successful in this, we had filled the two medium-sized skips shortly after lunchtime, and this led the organisers to let us off early. prior to the event, most of us had serious reservations; we all thought the idea of the community day was a good one, we just wondered about the location. in the event, we all had a good time, and only found half a syringe.
this weekend, my mum and dad and coming to stay, so we have been mainly cleaning the house, and planning suitable entertainment activities. it looks like the rain will stay away fro the next few days, so i'm keen to get out and about.
