I know I’m 10 days too late, but Happy New Year away!
I’ve just installed the ‘flickrpress’ plugin, so just testing how it works to include flickr photos in a wordpress post.
Enjoy this picture of the very cute Jenny. 
Category: Personal
Tonight I went to Durham with some of the local Baha’i girlies for a meal and dancing. I’ve had a great night…good company, good food, and on my part, some pretty ugly dance moves! :-p
I got the night bus home with May and Gillian, May and I coming back to Newcastle and Gillian getting off at Birtley. Once May and I were in Newcastle we split up; me to walk home and May to grab a taxi. It’s interesting the kind of people you can come across walking through Newcastle city centre at 2am. Not long after I left May, something hit me in the side…it looked a like a burger! Glancing around, I spotted a bunch of lads on the other side of the road sniggering. I just laughed and walked on, if they get their kicks out of something so childish as throwing food at someone, then good for them.
I didn’t run into any more drama until I was nearly at Chinatown. I took a shortcut under The Gate and past Blackfriars to get onto Stowell Street….as I headed towards Blackfriars, they were a couple of guys ‘relieving themselves’ against the walls of The Gate…I shouldn’t have expected anything different that time of night but I was still slightly taken aback, so I raised my hand to the side of my head so I didn’t inadvertently see anything! One of the guys said’ “Geez, sorry love!”. I replied saying it was alright and kept on walking!
Just before I hit Stowell street, one of the guys I had passed answering nature’s call had obviously finished and caught up with me…as he walked by, he turned around and said ‘he would behave’. I laughed at him (in a good natured way of course!), and we struck up a conversation. We were going in the same direction for a little while so we walked together. I found out his name is Richard, he is originally from Durham but went to university in Sheffield, and is now living in Newcastle. He told what he had been doing in town, and I told him what I’d been up to in Durham. We split up on St James’ Boulevard…I was heading up Bath Lane home, while he was walking down to the casino near to the Redheugh Bridge.
In the final stages of my journey home, I considered my conversation with Richard, and came to the conclusion that it was nice to be able to strike up a conversation was someone who is a complete stranger….a few years ago I wouldn’t be able to do that, but nowadays I’m comfortable enough with myself to have the confidence to speak to someone I don’t know.
As for the burger boys, at one time it would have really bothered me that I was the target of the childish act…now I don’t let it bother me.
It was an interesting walk home.
And now, it’s 03:26am…time for bed!
Truth is I can sometimes have a tendacy to lose interest in writing. Bah.
So this is a quick post just so I can say to myself that I’ve posted SOMETHING, even if it is just a moan about not posting on a regular basis!
Busy weekend ahead….need to do some shopping tomorrow, then going to Leanne’s tomorrow night for a ‘girly night’, quite looking forward to that. On sunday I will likely be in Blyth as it is my Dad’s birthday on Monday, and in the evening I will be at the 19 day feast.
Busy couple of days indeed! I want to play around with this blog’s design a little bit, hopefully I can fit some time in before Monday, as well as time to look at the banner for the website that is being put together for the Newcastle Baha’i community.
Need sleep now. Goodnight :-p
Michael and I were in Dublin for the day last Tuesday. We went there for a weeks holiday back in 2005 and absolutely loved it, so when Michael bought tickets with Ryanair for £1 each, each way, I was very happy to be going back, even though it was just overnight.
The weather there was pretty much the same as it is here at the moment – aka, wet! Still, we didn’t let that bother us too much. Our little trip wasn’t about sightseeing, rather we were using it as a chance to spend a day together away from home, so we walked, chatted, had tea and coffee at Bewleys on Grafton Street, and just enjoyed the break.
As we stood by the River Liffey on Tuesday evening, I made Michael video me singing a certain song…the Janeypants song! Dedicated to my lovely little sister, who this week got herself a new job at Linden Hall. Congratulations Jane, wish you all the best!
Michael really wants to travel over the next couple of years before we start trying to have kids – he wants us to visit all the countries in the EU. I’ve decided that whenever we visit somewhere, I will now always sing the Janeypants song on video it as proof. I hope my sister doesn’t mind! :-p
Michael will be writing in his blog about our trip in more detail…I’ll link once he has.
Janeypants! ♥
Michael knows how much I love to gawk at cute little animals. When he got home from work today he showed me a website he thought I would enjoy – Disapproving Rabbits.
He was right, I loved it!
Looking at all the lovely ‘disapproving’ bunnies on this site reminded me of my rabbit, Snowdrop.
Snowdrop when he was a baby
He was a gorgeous rabbit, and I miss him a lot.
He used to chase my cats around my front room…the poor felines didn’t know what to do! All Snowdrop wanted to do was sniff them with his twitchy noise, but the cats didn’t let him get near! It was quite funny to watch, although sometimes I felt bad for the bunny, he just wanted to be friends.
I called him Snowdrop as I was convinced he was a girl when we first got him. He wasn’t, so we shortened his name to ‘Dwop, which Micheal always used to say sounded like a ‘hip hop’ name.
Baby ‘Dwop with one of my cats, Misty
An older ‘Dwop in his hutch
‘Dwop passed on nearly 2 years ago, and I still get upset sometimes when I think about him not being here anymore, but he had a good life with Michael and I, and we both cherish the time we had with such a lovely pet.