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Bye bye Blankie
After the two drunkies came in around 9 am, I was up for the day! I made myself breakfast and coffee and watched a bit of Downton Abbey (a UK time period drama which I am now obsessed with). I had no idea what time they were going to get up, so I decided to walk around for a bit on my own. I was feeling really under the weather, and since there was only one set of keys and Blankie was leaving in the early evening I decided to stay in Basingstoke as oppose to going to London.
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What can I give this Christmas?
This year 6,657 Christmas shoeboxes were donated to The Trussell Trust for distribution in Bulgaria. This is another record and a reminder that there are a lot of you out there that really care about others much less fortunate than yourselves. If the children and adults who will receive the presents this year were able, they'd say a huge thank you to everybody who gave shoeboxes or their time to help sort them. It's really good ...
Cardiff, Brecon, Tintern and Oxford
... Wye Valley. We paused at the ruins of Tintern Abbey. I went in, took a few photos and recited a few lines from Wordsworth's poem. We continued on our journey, getting slightly lost near Chepstow (Pete had a small freak out when we hit some dead ends while the GPS messed up). Hit up another Tesco for petrol and food. Drove over the original Severn Bridge into England again. Fed Pete ice cream. Arrived at Oxford in the dark. The YHA was particularly pleasant I ...
Oh, you're from Perth?
... ways to explore and I later ran into him walking along with a lady who had taken a shine to him and had offered to introduce him to one of the competitors who was also from Perth. She dragged us over to the press tent area and we thankfully ran into Sarah and Becky while we were waiting there.
Eventually we were introduced to one ...
Just Hanging with Harry Potter!
... could log onto our online school account called PIP and register for our classes. But to my surprise I already had 2 classes that I wanted to take so I just had to add one more and I was set!
Since we had the afternoon off and the weather was WARM and SUNNY we decided to go explore Oxford some more and Christ Church which is one of the colleges that makes up Oxford University. When we got to Christ Church we were so happy to find out that admission was free for ...
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