I decided to start the day by visiting the York Castle Museum which I thoroughly enjoyed. I ended up spending nearly three hours here because there was so much to see and such fascinating history to read about. The Victorian street, the famous Kirkgate, was a real highlight with its authentic shop fronts and interesting objects which offered a glimpse of a bygone age. There were literally thousands of wonderful and weird, beautiful and bizarre items in the col...

I was very excited about my trip to York and was up super early getting everything sorted and headed to Hammersmith station at about 9:30am to catch the tube to Kings Cross. I had allowed plenty of time and when I got there I made sure I knew where I had to be and waited for the platform number to appear on the board. Once I was on the train I began to relax and was very excited about what layed ahead. The train trip was beautiful and I was very lucky that the...

I can't believe how quickly Christmas and New Years came around. We have had a fairly nice festive season but it's simply not the same without family around. Andrew had some leave he had to use up because you can only carry 5 days over into the new year over here so he had a pretty relaxing time. I was at work for all the days in between the statutory holidays but I didn't mind. To be honest it was very quiet in the office and we also had a couple of short ...

Andrew and I headed off to work on Friday morning all packed up, excited and ready for a fun-filled weekend away to Bath with Claire Richards. We had arranged to finish work early so Claire picked us up in Richmond at 4pm and we hit the road. She has a gorgeous little new light blue Mini Cooper which I fell in love with! Can't say I'd complain if I was driving around in one of these groovy wee cars one day! It took us a while to get out of London but once w...

This morning we got up fairly early and made our way to the reception of the hotel to check out and have some breckie in the dining room there. We all had a yummy hot breakfast to kick start our day which was just what we all felt like. We had a little drive around Nailsworth before making our way to Malmesbury where we came across a very upsetting situation for this wee township. The rain has been so heavy over the last few days that we saw extreme flooding whic...