Post 9

It's been a busy few months with weekends away, family and friends coming and going and plenty of other thing to keep us busy.

We bid farewell to Julie at the end of August as she headed back to Nelson. Blake was in and out of London during August and September so it was great to catch up with him. We've also seen a few other family and friends on their visits to London which has been nice.

There have been no big holidays but we have managed to fit in a few weekends away in the past few months. We had a trip to Rotherham in July which was good. Andy went to Wales for Dave's stag weekend in September which sounded like great drunken fun. The following weekend we went to Kent for Dave and Nic's wedding which was fabulous. Early October saw us back up North. We spent a night in Rotherham where we took part in the local pub quiz night and I saw dripping sandwiches for the first time. Yuck. Although Andy and Steve tucked in. We spent the next night in Boston Spa with friends which was nice. We then drove up to Whitby via the North Yorkshire Moors which were very bleak and quite spectacular. We spent two nights in Whitby eating and sleeping lots plus fitted in a trip to Scarborough which is the most 'English' seaside resort I have ever been to. The jury is out on whether that is a compliment or not! Whitby was lovely, Captain Cook hails from there and it is also the landing place of Dracula.

Weekend just gone Andy was in Barcelona for his stag do. From all reports (and the state of Andy when he got back) they had a great time. Three nights away, two days of golf, beers on the beach and hitting the clubs in town until late.

I had a good weekend in London as Lesley came down from Scotland for a visit. A few wines, lots of chat, nice.

I'm off home now. We have a gas leak (behind my shoe cupboard - horror!) so we have someone coming round to fix it. British Gas came round last night and cut off our supply so we didn't blow up. Heating and hot water would be nice!

Bec