Misadventures in Crewe and beyond
Aug. 23rd, 2010 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseI have been to Crewe. No wait! Come back! I tend lots of nice things and it was good to see my family again. I do miss having such a busy house, although after a bit I do get fed up with the constant laptop/TV/computer games/I-Phone usage. My flat seems quiet in comparison! The main reason I went was because my old workplace, Alsager library is closing down and they were having a party for all the old staff. It's sad that it's going (it's being combined with Crewe campus) as the building is much nicer than Crewe's. There were a surprising amount of people there and I got to speak to lots of people, people I knew and people I didn't, while I sampled the home made food. I was even sent home with some. It was strange being back really but in a good way. I got to speak to staff I worked with who I hadn't seen since I left three and a half years ago and even if it was a little depressing telling people how I'm still not working in a library, it was fun. There were lots of photos up including one of me and a little one of Stella which made me sad. A whole section was dedicated to Brandy the library cat who, fittingly, died last week. He was 19. So a good turnout and fun was had by all.
On Thursday me, my brother, sister and Mum went to The Palms at Stapely Water Garden. It's closing soon though which is sad as they have a great selection of animals. Lots of tropical stuff like fish, frogs, spiders but also meerkats, tortoises and loads of flowers, a really nice day out. We made Jonathan drive us to Snugbury's afterwards obviously. I had two scoops of ice cream - one cherry blizzard and the other damson and sloe gin. You don't need me to tell you how tasty it was. They had the cutest spotty piglets too! And the giant hay sculpture is a meerkat this year which was very impressive.
On Friday morning I sat out in the garden. My Dad's been working on it, including building a new, bigger pond which is really impressive. He's so good with his hands. I don't think I could ever build a pond, let alone a little waterfall to go with it. That talent's skipped a generation I think. In the afternoon me went to see my Grandma. She's not great really. Her memory is terrible and she can't hear anything you say which is sad really (though it does make for amusing incidents at our house when my Mum is shouting down the phone - "IT'S JANE! IS DAVID THERE?") but she is 96. She did mention Gladys a few times (who's been dead for four years) which is also worrying. Apparently my Mum and sister went to visit a few weeks back and when Nanna said about Gladys visiting my sister said to my Mum afterwards, really seriously, "well maybe she has"! Haha. Someone at Mum's work heard about this and said that Bethany was very astute but I refuse to believe that the ghost of my Great Aunt is hovering around.
On Saturday me, my Mum and sister went to see Fiona's art display at The Cubbyhole. I have never heard of this place and it's in the weirdest location! It's also surprisingly big inside and there were lots of people making things inside. I bought a fridge magnet and some cards. It goes without saying that the art was good! Happily we bumped into Fiona on the way who I've not seen for about two years. Madness.
On Saturday night we had a board game night. Cluedo, which Jonathan won, and Monopoly, which Jonathan also won. He was most upset that after two hours of Monopoly everyone declared him the winner without his getting to bankrupt everyone apart from Bethany!
And then on Sunday I came back to Leeds. It felt like a proper holiday and it was good to see James again. We went to Tampopo in the evening to catch up and as we had our £50 voucher and had the full works, so good! Mixed platter to start, home made lemonade, chicken salad with peanut dressing for main, sticky black rice pudding for dessert and Vietnamese coffee for after that. the coffee is with condensed milk. So good! So yeah, I've had a great time. And now I'm only in until Wednesday and then I'm off for another week! Amazing.
On Thursday me, my brother, sister and Mum went to The Palms at Stapely Water Garden. It's closing soon though which is sad as they have a great selection of animals. Lots of tropical stuff like fish, frogs, spiders but also meerkats, tortoises and loads of flowers, a really nice day out. We made Jonathan drive us to Snugbury's afterwards obviously. I had two scoops of ice cream - one cherry blizzard and the other damson and sloe gin. You don't need me to tell you how tasty it was. They had the cutest spotty piglets too! And the giant hay sculpture is a meerkat this year which was very impressive.
On Friday morning I sat out in the garden. My Dad's been working on it, including building a new, bigger pond which is really impressive. He's so good with his hands. I don't think I could ever build a pond, let alone a little waterfall to go with it. That talent's skipped a generation I think. In the afternoon me went to see my Grandma. She's not great really. Her memory is terrible and she can't hear anything you say which is sad really (though it does make for amusing incidents at our house when my Mum is shouting down the phone - "IT'S JANE! IS DAVID THERE?") but she is 96. She did mention Gladys a few times (who's been dead for four years) which is also worrying. Apparently my Mum and sister went to visit a few weeks back and when Nanna said about Gladys visiting my sister said to my Mum afterwards, really seriously, "well maybe she has"! Haha. Someone at Mum's work heard about this and said that Bethany was very astute but I refuse to believe that the ghost of my Great Aunt is hovering around.
On Saturday me, my Mum and sister went to see Fiona's art display at The Cubbyhole. I have never heard of this place and it's in the weirdest location! It's also surprisingly big inside and there were lots of people making things inside. I bought a fridge magnet and some cards. It goes without saying that the art was good! Happily we bumped into Fiona on the way who I've not seen for about two years. Madness.
On Saturday night we had a board game night. Cluedo, which Jonathan won, and Monopoly, which Jonathan also won. He was most upset that after two hours of Monopoly everyone declared him the winner without his getting to bankrupt everyone apart from Bethany!
And then on Sunday I came back to Leeds. It felt like a proper holiday and it was good to see James again. We went to Tampopo in the evening to catch up and as we had our £50 voucher and had the full works, so good! Mixed platter to start, home made lemonade, chicken salad with peanut dressing for main, sticky black rice pudding for dessert and Vietnamese coffee for after that. the coffee is with condensed milk. So good! So yeah, I've had a great time. And now I'm only in until Wednesday and then I'm off for another week! Amazing.
