Archive for May, 2007
A year on
So it was a year last weekend since I left work at the University of Leeds and things are going well. Not rolling-around-in-piles-of-money-and-giggling well (at least not all the time – but we’ve had our moments) but steady well (aka ‘enough for me to be able to afford the trip to Lindisfarne’ well). John’s joined [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Monday
We had to leave the cottage around 10am so got up around 9am to finish packing and have breakfast in good time. We packed everything into the car then took it down to the visitors carpark (in case the cottage’s cleaner, who was due to arrive imminently, needed to use the driveway). Then as we [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Sunday
Another 9.30am get up on Sunday – with the same streaming sunlight but instead of getting up early to get off the island, I got up early to do some work (boo). John read in the conservatory and photographed frogs in the garden’s pond while I worked and the plan was that I’d finish at [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Saturday
We woke up around 9.30 on Saturday – which if you know us will have you gasping out loud in surprise. We’re not morning people and usually only get up at around 11 on a weekday (hurrah for working for ourselves), let alone at the weekend. We didn’t really have any plans for Saturday but [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Friday
We’ve just got back from a long(ish) weekend in a cottage on Lindisfarne, just off the coast of Northumberland. We drove up on Friday and planned to get to the island just before the causeway shut at 2.15pm. I somehow managed to get the maths wrong so we ended up leaving for the three hour [...]