Revolutionary Rants

The long Bank holiday is over. It has been lovely, three whole days with Chicken home and putting my dissertation to the back of my mind. Well, it is not long until I have to hand-in my dissertation, when Mr C will come with me for a weekend away back up in Yorkshire. After that, we are greatly looking forward to Chris’ counsin’s wedding in October, when we’ll fly to Warsaw. After that it is not too long until Christmas.

As I have already posted, we went to Exeter on Saturday. What I forgot was that we had a surprise on the way home. We stood at the edge of the platform, eager to get a seat for the journey back home. The train pulled up and we blinked at the side - Trans-Pennine Express, it read. It was one of the trains we had taken so often from Huddersfield; me, weekly at least, up and down to York and both of us often enough to Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool! It was an odd thing, both comfortable and alien to sit in the blue and red flecked seats again.

On Sunday we had a quiet day and a failed hunt for the local CAMRA pub, which turned out to have been brought up and changed. Yesterday we went to the local Lidl for veg and had a nice walk near the river. We watched the boring A Bug’s Life and in the evening the sublime La Haine, which was as good as I remembered it. Certainly one of my favourites.

It was nice to lie in and not have to make sandwiches every night! Sadly, our plans to make Yorkie puds (or, in my case veggie toad-in-the-hole) failed as we did not have any plain flour!

Today it is back to the real world, C at work and I am back to my dissertation. This mornign I went ot see my Nan, as it is her birthday. The sun is trying to shine…