Premier Inn Chorley - South

... 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.

... back with us.

So with many a phone call, lots of emails and around a dozen documents to print out - the case is on it's way. We now just have to hope it gets there in one piece - what are the odds of it getting there before us, and even more important before the ship sails.

So just two cases and some hand luggage left to pack, better find those socks!

... are manageable from that respect. Form 1 (very enthusiastic students and they are an absolute scream; I really enjoy teaching them) Form 5, studying the development of the symphony and recording in the recording studio (amazing set up with full desk and pro tools), Lower 6th (perhaps my favourite group) and Upper 6th (a different challenge). A change in the dynamics of the classes is apparent when you have senior classes that are streamed in ...

... or I will no doubt be sick (again)!

I will add some photo's when I arrive on the isle of Tasmania, and I will write again once I am over the jet lag.

Goodbye for now my lovely friends and family.. see you all in 6 months or so!! Love Julia x x x

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 “ ...

... exist!!!
Some of the scenery out from here was quite nice, apparently in the High Pennines, some slightly hillier countryside with stone walls around the paddocks of the farms, old farm houses just like out of James Herriott, and a scarecrow even surrounded by crows - not doing a very good job.
The train and roading system is something that NZ will probably never catch up with, UK is years and years ahead of us in that department, but with our small ...

... and paintings everywhere, perfect :-)

The city

After having our first lunch (which was not to bad actually), we went on for a little bit of tourism during the early afternoon, before heading to Anfield Road to visit the stadium and do some shopping at the club megastore. I won't speak to much about the Anfield museum, because spending 2 hours there with 3 Liverpool fans is not the among the best possible memories for a United fan ...

... cos there was a damn sight more leg room than the trans-hemisphere shoebox i'd just spent 24 hours on. i could actually leave my knees in an angle greater than 90 degrees!! Obscene i know. Of course, as i was was 'fast-tracked' my trusty bag wasn't... and for the first time in 17 flights, and 50,000miles my luggage was lost. Bloody typical. At least i didn't have to ...

... 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 ...

... simon followed behind in their car) and decided to walk down to the lake, looking out for somewhere to eat lunch (it was 3pm by this time). The walk down was great. it wasn't a short walk but i loved walking down past the bridges and lovely old houses. Truly fantastic! WE got down to the lake and found a pub which was serving - so we all went in and grabbed some tucker. I had honey baked ham with this interesting potato chip stack (think ...