The Swan Hotel Alton

... the infamous round table with all the knights names and apparently a pic of King Henry?? I need to check that one and update this entry.

Pete made it without an issue and it was a lovely day for driving as well. I looked around the shops and had lunch in the Cathedral shop and of course took some pictures and read about some of the history or Wincester!

Only days to go until the one-and-a-half-a-thon so here is a quick update.

The Swim
Gastric irregularities and persistent ear ache have severely hampered training this week. Not even the thought of the extra publicity that an involuntary bowel movement would doubtless have caused could lure me to the municipal baths. The ear ache was almost certainly something I picked up when I retrieved my ear plugs from the ...

... school, and then going to tour round afterwards. Not 100% sure yet but will definately be doing Kerela and then North India.

Thanks to Brother Hasslehoff (Jennys brother) I have this funky blog thing so you all can sleep well at night knowing that my organs havent been sold on the black market for 100 rupees a piece.

Enjoy :)

Nimita

xxx

... man o' war, only more revolting. Oh, and errant earplugs. But that was mine, so that's ok. I just did a skillful surface dive, retrieved it and squeezed it back into my ear.

Back to the "Otter" goggles. I pretty quickly discovered that my head is too big, or my eyes are too close together, but they were unbearably tight and forced my eyeballs to bulge apart, pupils akimbo, so that my field of ...

... Mark was a bit grumpy the next day. After a frenzy of locating and printing off flight and hotel accommodation confirmations, Mat tore up a bunch of paper, pretended it was all our travel flight and accommodation confirmations and then blamed it on Sammy the dog, Mark almost strangled the dog. Lucky for Sammy, the joke was revealed prior to strangulation.

Next stop - airport for flight to Barcelona!

... mir aber fast das Herz stehen geblieben, auch wenn das Zeug normalerweise lecker ist, so gut habe ich es noch nie erlebt. Ich habe dann von dem Kellner, der keinen Versuch machte seinen Stolz zu verstecken, gelernt, das dieses Restaurant, Mumtaz in Bradford, den Mango Lassie 1979 erfunden hat und er sich seitdem auf der Welt als indisches Getränk durchgesetzt hat. In Indien trinkt man normalerweise entweder süßen oder salzigen Lassie, aber keinen Fruchtlassie. Also, wenn ...

... learned that what was once easy in my youth, became a little difficult as a senior. My arm did not move with the same agility that I had when I played little league all the way through High School and American Legion Baseball. We had a wonderful pork loin roast, done on the barbe and potatoes that Catherine and Dave fixed for dinner, and caught some of the French Open before retiring to bed. We caught up on ...

Arrived in london from birmingham about 5pm at victoria station, then got my way to kings cross on the tube. My first experience on the tube...peak hour, was like a sardine can, and i had my pack and other bag with me, but managed to get to kings cross okay. Stayed at a hostel called the generator.

... on my journey to enlightenment. :] During tutor time this morning we got together as a group and did a check-in around how we are feeling and how we are progressing on our targets. YES folks, I did the "check in with a weather forecast" and I imagine the students all think I am mad, but they played along with me anyway. Some of them had very insightful weather patterns! Then we talked about the targets we set at academic mentoring last week and how we were progressing on those. I ...

... is burning a member of a minority. To tell you the truth, I was looking forward to it because of the tradition aspect. Nevertheless, the bonfire was impressive and there was a jester fellow out in front of it juggling things that were on fire. There was also a band playing called "Boogie Wonderland." They played old disco covers and I think they were my favourite part of the celebration. I just wanted to get down! Which I did, for a little while. I mean, as much as I ...