Acton Court Hotel Stockport

... we have had since we arrived. Lots of laughs and reduced to tears in the end. I think the 2 kids may have also enjoyed it.
The Villain from Coronation Street and the star, Aladdin, from Hollyoaks. A pleasure for the ladies in the audience.

Great night.

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Further ahead

Just finished some travel agent work for Jenni and Lin for their visits in February. It will be great to see them over here and they will enjoy a jam packed 2 weeks. Judy will be over sometime in July and there are proposals from some other friends later in 2010 we hope.

We are enjoying our ‘new lives’, missing family and friends a lot but looking forward to all that this time will enable us accomplish.

... by 9.30 but about 9.50 I realised that I was stalling: the huge reality of the situation was causing me to shy away and dither rather than taking action - it was probably behind my stomach cramps too. :-)

This was not really a surprise - the North Staffs (and South Cheshire) region has been my primary area of residence for 10 of the last 12 years, and is the only place I have lived where ...

How could anything be worse than the Ball Breaker? How? And yet it was. Damn the kilometres of bog, damn the no bacon butty truck on the highway, damn the twisty part where you go around curve after curve after curve and don’t see anything ahead of you but CURVE. Then damn the “ ...

... I was walking on. They’d paved the path with boulders?! On purpose?!

This was when my leg started coming out of its socket.

The Greedy Sheep Incident

Pennine sheep are in some parts greedy having been feed by walkers they rather expect food now. They will sneak up behind you but if you wave a stick they kind of run away and wait for you to stop paying attention again. I asked Ryan (remorseless *******) to watch ...

... filled with Laphroig single malt but will probably hold a number of different spirits around the way).)

Backpack: Clothes, Food and cooking utensils, Duck tape

Top Bar: Energy tablets, gels and Caffiene tablets

I'm glad that is sorted - now just to put my affairs in order.

Precisely 1 week today!

... for now ;-)), I'm most excited about the sleeper train, it's so much more interesting then sitting in Manchester Airport for 4 hours! We'll be squeezing into a tiny cabin, with a triple bunk bed on an 11 hour journey...shutting the curtains in Germany and opening them in Denmark.....and it's cheaper (what with a lack of luggage limits saving me from extortionate Easy Jet add-ons!)

I'll keep updating this as I start booking hostels and buying things for Denmark!

Hello everyone and thanks for looking at my Blog.

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... of O'Sheays, and then into the gay village, which is a fab place for a night out, and stays open later than most places. We met some people Carrie knew, so there was a bunch of us there, and inside the bar we chose, it amused us to find a padded 'box' cut into the wall - which of course, we had to get into! Brilliant night out, though the head isn't feeling great today, and I need to get a bus in an hour!

... so we didn't go in. What made it doubly obnoxious was they had built something in front of the cathedral that blocked your view of it if you didn't go in. Jerks. The night out with Helen and her friends did advance my Theory of Drunken Invincibility that I'd been working on throughout the trip. The theory goes like this: when you're drunk you're essentially covered in a cloak of invincibility that makes you impervious to anything and everything, and this includes anything ...