Following Dave and Ellie’s wedding, Lizzie and I took a week holiday just up the road in Skyreholme village in Yorkshire. What we did in the first few days has already been published here. This post covers the second half of our holiday. Continue reading
Helen and Aimee organised a trip down the river Wye in canoes staying overnight in a tipi. They needed an extra person and I jumped at the chance to accompany them. Continue reading
For Dave’s stag do, the best man James arranged for a group of us to take a trip on Dave’s narrow boat to the Long Itchington Beer Festival thus combining Dave’s loves of beer and boating.
It’s that time of year again for the gathering of NAMSOC by the river. The bonfire, the booze, fireworks and ritual cremation of Pikachu. Continue reading
Plan for today is to head up Swartberg pass to Prince Albert to take a look at the scenery. Part way up the pass, the paved road gives way to quite steep gravel which was interesting to drive on in our rented saloon. The scenery was well worth it. Prince Albert itself was a bit of a disappointment but was a nice enough little town. Continue reading
Monday 31/12/2007 continued
Once Grace arrived we all went round to Alan and Katie’s for a lovely fondue dinner. When we were fully satisfied we set off down to the beach for some fire play. No pictures I’m afraid as I left my camera behind. I’d also left my staff in Nottingham but since John brought 2 and Helen had hers and there were also poi and diablo available, no one missed out. We played for an hour or so and then headed back to warm up and get ready for the big event of midnight fireworks on the beach. Continue reading
Having broken our tradition of spending the New Year in London by going to Amsterdam last year, someone suggested it would be fun to seen in 2008 in Croyde where we often go for our holidays. So we booked ourselves into 2 cottages at the Croyde Unison holiday site, a place where we had never stayed before, and started making plans. We headed down on Saturday 29/12 with our customary stop on the way to visit the wonders of Barnstaple retail park and arrived after dark. Continue reading
I arrived just after the fire was lit. People were generally standing around admiring its brilliance. When the fire had died down a bit and most people had had a chance to get some food, the fireworks started. Despite having a few maniacs letting them off and having me as “safety officer” all went surprisingly well. Continue reading
The NAMSOC barbecue and bonfire event got all official this time round with tickets and highly organised catering and everything. Oh, and an absolutely stupendous amount of fire wood. The weather wasn’t quite as stunning as last time but this still promised to be one hell of an evening. I brought along my fire sticks of course but they were totally eclipsed by the massive fire and the fire breathing. Got home stinking of smoke and paraffin and much happier for it. Continue reading
Today was museum day. It had to be as they are all shut tomorrow. We all started in the van Gogh museum with it’s fascinating “van Gogh and the expressionists” exhibition. However it soon became apparent that most of our group were philistines and went off to do other things. Kat and I remained in the van Gogh most of the day and then went to the Rijksmuseum for dessert. Continue reading
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