Best Western Pennine Manor Hotel Huddersfield

Went to see 'Aladdin' at the 'Opera House' in Manchester this evening. Borrowing 2 unsuspecting children for cover, we went to see a typical Panto. With bright and elaborate costumes, corny jokes that appeal to kids and adults it was an absolute scream. Best ...

... November. All types of food and drink on offer plus many stalls with Christmas decorations. It has been great to hear the Halle Orchestra and Bridgewater Hall has a magnificent acoustic.

Christmas Break

We are really looking forward to the 3 week break at Christmas after such a long term and so much on. Lee and Shane arrive on the 17th, Christmas music in the Cathedral on the 18th and then off to Liverpool for a Christmas Beatles ...

... 7pm.... That was a toughy, just sitting around on cold marble floors very tired... The good news is that Qatar let us check in at 1am. Once in we had the luxury of the cafes and duty free areas etc.... Once in we hada browse round and found a cafe that sold beer and with it, acces to thier smoking room - which helped pass the hours....
The flight for Doha left as scheduled and neither of us new anything until the announcement was made that we were landing - both of us sleeping through ...

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

Boulder Paths

"Over the boulder, down the boulder, **** the boulder, **** THE BOULDER!!!"

There are some points where the paths are naturally made of boulders or large rocks, fine I'm on a mountain I get it. However one day we hit some hard going with a path covered in boulders which, after about twenty minutes, I noticed there weren’t any boulders OFF the path, only on it. A neat line of ******, leg-twisting boulders was ...

... raining still!

It has been a bit of a blur today, as well as the Royal Marsden we have been to Addenbrookes in Cambridge, THe Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham and now I am sitting in a cosy front room in Sheffield with a real fire!
I am excited about tomorrow as we will be going back to my home town of Newcastle. Yippee!!
I have taken a few pictures of the day.

Finally made it through my last working week in Brum, loose ends bar for one all tied up and had 2 amusing and fulfilling last days, but it feels so good to now be finished.

Thursday I was hitting a bit of a wall (some fatigue, some stress and needed some air) so headed out to the shops and came back with a can of diet coke (UK can which are the small size). Drank it quickly before my first afternoon patient and pow! I was off - a ...

... the CHANGE. I don't particularly like change, but I like to take myself out of my comfort zone sometimes and see what I can handle. Keep challenging myself.

Keeping this short, otherwise it will get VERY boring. More time for fun stories and escapades then! xox

... out there and I want to see it and experience it (Thanks Charley and Ewan for making me face this !). I couldn't tell you before now because that would put you guys in a really difficult position. I'm 36, I'm not getting any younger and I believe (maybe I'm being naive) but I believe there are things way more important in the real world than what I'm doing at the moment - I might be wrong and that's fair enough but ...

... really hadn't talked to all day standing outside smoking a cigarette with a laundry basket over her head. The obvious question sparked the conversation and it was all uphill from there. At some point the conversation went into a debate as to whether she could pull if she showed up at the club appearing exactly like that. Let's just say, we found out. It was a great way to lead into Liverpool and my first nights spent in a hostel in over a month, and my last ones of the trip.