So took an extra few days off and turned my bank holiday weekend into 5 days instead of 3. Didn't really have a plan as to what to do except do things on the spur of the moment or just relax - in the end I did both - mwhaha.
Wednesday night - made this:
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| Tomato, basil and rosemary focaccia bread |
Yum. Recipe and video how to should follow next time I make this.
Thursday as you've already read included a trip to West Kirby - apparently home to one of the UK's best beaches. I'll admit it was a very nice beach - the wind and rain not nice - but no complaint about the sand that ended up in my trainers and spread around the majority of my car.
Friday was a fairly chilled out day. I walked to the shop instead of driving. This may not seem a big thing but I'm sorry to say that since I've started driving the amount of walking I do has been declined by a scary amount! Also spent far too long playing God with the new wireless printer. Finished the day off with a trip to Daresbury labs - the do a free lecture every month and they are usually really interesting. This months was done by some bloke who spent most of his life in the Antarctic circle and was terrified that his research station was going to float away and the rest of the world will flood. Fun times.
Finished off the day with mac n cheese and cider. I'll post a recipe for this with a video next time I make it.
Saturday arrived and we decided to take a stroll round Dunham Massey deer park. Its good -you should go there - they have deer
Thursday as you've already read included a trip to West Kirby - apparently home to one of the UK's best beaches. I'll admit it was a very nice beach - the wind and rain not nice - but no complaint about the sand that ended up in my trainers and spread around the majority of my car.
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| Looking out from West Kirby beach before we started to freeze. |
Friday was a fairly chilled out day. I walked to the shop instead of driving. This may not seem a big thing but I'm sorry to say that since I've started driving the amount of walking I do has been declined by a scary amount! Also spent far too long playing God with the new wireless printer. Finished the day off with a trip to Daresbury labs - the do a free lecture every month and they are usually really interesting. This months was done by some bloke who spent most of his life in the Antarctic circle and was terrified that his research station was going to float away and the rest of the world will flood. Fun times.
Finished off the day with mac n cheese and cider. I'll post a recipe for this with a video next time I make it.
Saturday arrived and we decided to take a stroll round Dunham Massey deer park. Its good -you should go there - they have deer
and cake
Good day.
Sunday rolled round - why does time off speed past so fast? Yes I know that rhymes. No I didn't type it like that deliberately. Am I going to leave it? Yes. Do I feel overly impressed with myself right now? Damn right! Again with mwhahaha.
Anyway - Sunday! We went to Speke Hall - it was a really cool place but slightly confusing as for some reason they had decided to put Liverpool John Lennon Airport right next door. This meant the lovely relaxing strolling around was punctuated by a massive EasyJet plane going over at 300ft overy 45 minutes or so.
Anyway - some photos
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| My friend hiding behind a hedge to avoid having his photo taken |
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| Speke Hall - Jeff the overly friendly and quite terrifying garden guide said we must take this photo of the house or we would die!!! I may have made that last bit up - if you've been greeted by Jeff you understand. I'm typing this bit in on the final read through before I hit post (even though I do this I know that I will have missed about 8 million mistakes - sorry - I'm rubbish at proof reading :)) - the National Trust have this new scheme where they let you have a more "interactive" experience - sounds odd? I thought so too until I walked into one room and the guide asked if we would like to have a go at playing billiards on the massive table they had. Sadly no pictures as weren't allowed to take them in the house and we couldn't take one on the quiet as we were too distracted playing billiards :P Decided to unleash my inner photo geek at this point and try and do a panoramic shot with my new camera - here is the result:  3 pictures stitched together. So Monday rolls around far too quickly and whats the worst you could do on a bank holiday Monday? Nope! Its try and park at Ikea Warrington - I have never seen a war zone with so much flatpack flying everywhere - it was quite terrifying. Sorry - no pictures for Monday. I did cook a roast dinner so recipes and videos to follow! Thanks for reading Jon. |
wicked!
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