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Our Day In Derby

April 19th, 2009 flattley
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So, this last weekend (18 – 19 Apr 09) has been quite the weekend.

Saturday:

We wake up at 05:45am – I say we, I mean me. Got in the taxi at 07:00, arrived at the station at 07:10 ready for the 07:29 train. £55 for the tickets I hasten to add. Turns out that the train was running about 10 mins late. Should have realised what the day was gonna be like then.

We finally got to Derby and promptly headed for some breakfast because both of us were hungry – hungry enough to pay out the butt for breakfast. That was a nice and costly £14.

After breakfast, we headed out for a taxi to go to the church where the wedding was. We were foolishly thinking that it was gonna fairly cheap as it was only a couple miles away. How dumb we were – there was a £2 hire charge first of all. We jumped in and told the driver where to take us. We got ever worried as the meter approached the amount of money we had. When we got to £6.30 we had to tell the driver to pull over. We found a shop and got directions from the shop keeper to the chapel. Turned out to be a 10 min walk up hill to the church.

As we were approaching the church, the limo with the bride in pulled up to the door. We thought we were late for the wedding. Turns out she broke with tradition and was early. Luckily the kept her out there for a few more mins. We were lucky. The ceremony was a good ceremony. We sat around for what seemed like hours while the photos were taken (The part I hate the most about weddings – didn’t like having to sit around for photos at my own)

The food was quite nice. They had a carvery kinda thing going on. The most entertaining part of the reception was the camel that was sitting on the table next to us. She was chewing with her gob wide open. I looked over one time and found some food stuck on her lip and she was chewing away. Forgot we were at a wedding!

We left at about 15:30 and headed to M&S to spend a voucher we had from Christmas 2007. It was the worst decision ever – we were both tired and hot and bothered. We decided to head for the station and go home. We had to wait 40 mins in Derby for the train. We had to change at Leicester and had a 40 min wait there for our train home.

On our way home, I was messing about with the camera and i’m going to include a picture I took when we stopped at Melton Mowbray station. The woman in the pic just happened to walk by as I captured the shot. That is our photo of the week.

By the time we got home we were ready to sleep. We didn’t watch too much TV and when we got into bed we both rolled over and were asleep in no time at all.

Sunday:

Our day today has got to have been the most boring day we have ever had. We skipped church today coz we both needed our sleep from our tiresome day yesterday.

We have done nothing all day. We ended up playing Nintendo DS. We played Super Mario Brothers. I have to say that it is funny to watch Jamie as she is playing it and to hear here when she loses a life. It is very funny. Best part of it all – she gets all excited when she gets a 7-up. (To you and me, that is an extra life) That was the extent of our day. BTW – she just screamed loud coz she lost a life

Here is the pic I mentioned earlier, imposter included

Melton Mowbray with the imposter

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Crich

September 28th, 2007 flattley
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On Saturday September 8th, Taylor and myself went to Crich Tramway Village. It was a good time. I did enjoy it. It was like stepping back in time.

Here are the photos from the village

Crich Tramway Village

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My Weekend Away

April 9th, 2006 flattley
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Well, let me start by saying: Damn National Rail. The train I was meant to catch from my station – the 19:09 direct to where I was going – didn’t stop. Someone must have forgot to tell the driver that he needed to stop. Well, they didn’t and he went whoosh right past me and didn’t stop. How mad was I! Needless to say that it took me an extra hour to get to my destination! UGH!

I finally arrived at 21:30. Yay. Met Taylor and went to his house. On the way from the station in Nottingham, I spied a Hooters – Taylor told me that we couldn’t go. Boo Hoo. We went for the next best thing instead – KFC. This was no ordinary KFC, this was a one with an A&W on it. How pleased was I. I love root beer – I mean, more than any other drink here in plain old blighty (England to those of you not from here)

We went home and talked forever and finally went to sleep.

On the Saturday morning, we decided to go right into the Peak District to a place called Treak Cliff Cavern. My first thought was whoopee a cave (sense the sarcasm there). When I got there – after climbing what felt like the highest mountain ever (I know, you guys from across the pond are shouting it’s just a hill – be that as it may), we got to the entrance. We went on a tour of the caves in there. It turned out to be pretty cool. I got wet from all the water seeping through the rocks.

It was a nice cave though, as nice as caves can be I suppose – not that i’d know as this is the first cave i’ve been in. After the 40 minute tour ended, we went back outside and descended down the mountain to where the entrance was. Done the touristy gift shop bit. We were about to head home and it started hailing. It was so heavy, like the mountain was falling down.

After the caves, we headed into a town called Eyam. The town is famous in the Peak District for being plague infested. It was a nice little walk.

We went to the cinema to see Ice Age 2. Classic. So funny. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s now Sunday and I am back to what you would call life and what I would call boring as hell.

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07:30 Sir?

April 6th, 2006 flattley
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So, yesterday was pretty boring. Went to the train station to buy my tickets as I am off to see a friend in Derby for the weekend.

I planned my journey there and back on the national rail website. Right down to every last detail, like where I want to change, when I want to go, when I want to come back, what direction I want to be sitting in – yeah, i’m anal like that. Just ask my wife (well, she will be in 3 weeks).

So, I couldn’t buy my ticket online – damn visa electron cards, bain of my life – off to the station I toddled. I went to the window to give the guy all the info of when I want to travel, yadda yadda yadda.

In the process of going through this info and telling him when I want to travel, he piped up and asked 7:30 am sir?

I thought to myself, do me a favour mate. 7:30 in the morning, along came the palpatations, the cold sweat, the shaking. I’m thinking to myself, I can’t believe he just asked that, surely he must realise that there is only one 7:30 in the day. Evening if you will. Bad of me to be so presumptious.

So, after my near death experience with that question, he figured out that I meant evening.

I now have my tickets and am ready for my life changing adventure to the peak district. Well, not so much life changing – but it will give me shortness of breath as I am coming up to sea level when I go there. Where I live is a little below sea level. Why the town isn’t under water I have no idea – probably better for the town if it was! Put its measly existence out of its misery.

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