Annual Easter Crewe visit
LJ's very quiet at the moment. How dare you all get lives!
So on Saturday we went to Leeds Grand Theatre to see the Royal Shakespeare Company perform The Tempest. I had high expectations of it really but it was a little disappointing truth be told. They gave it an African theme which worked really well but they raced through it all and speeding through the beautiful language combined with the heavy accents made it quite difficult to follow. If you didn't know the story beforehand you'd have been screwed. It wasn't all bad though I have to say. The music was good and the stage was great. I did feel a bit bad saying to Liz that it wasn't that great as she'd given us the free tickets! Speaking of Liz, she finished work this week so now Eleanor is now my line manager. She's my fourth manager in two years but it'll be fine being managed by her, we get on really well. Her team is a bunch of loons though so that'll be fun. I gave Liz some Racing Royals as a leaving present as we will miss her. I might get some work done now though as we've pretty much spent the last week talking!
On Saturday after the threatre we didn't do much apart from raid Zavvi/Head for cheap CDs. I got quite a pile from there and after eyeing up the Xbox prices decided to order one when I got home. Hurrah! I've wanted one for ages.
On Sunday we had lunch at Tom Popo which is a bit like Wagamamma but tonnes better. I got 20% student discount which meant it was really cheap and damn tasty. I dare say that we'll be back there quite soon.
Monday included another theatre visit, again for free due to the Night Less Ordinary Scheme (wonderful!). This time we went to see When We Are Married at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and it was brilliant. Clever set, funny play and great acting. Bizarrely it had Les Dennis in it! It was great fun though.
And then on Tuesday afternoon I travelled to Crewe (leaving my Xbox behind which arrived an hour before I left!) which is where I am now. Yesterday I went to see all of my old colleagues at the library. I spent a lot of the time talking to Sarah and Jackie really. It sounds like the move to Crewe is going to be horrendous though and they're mucking around with hours, so it's nice to know that there are other incompetant managers around. Sarah's going to be doing a library qualification next year so I said she can have all of my old essays! Brandy the library cat no longer comes to the library anymore which is sad. He's getting on a bit and he got into a fight with another cat on campus as hasn't really been back since. No more library cat! But also no more students asking if he's real or stuffed I suppose.
This morning we went to see my Grandma who seems fairly well. She wasn't all that great last week. Other wise I'm just hanging around at home playing on the Wii and reading a lot so it's not all bad. It's funny, I read an short article not long back about how lots of pubs are shutting and I wasn't convinced it was true as Skipton's many pubs seemed to be as busy as ever. But coming back to Crewe it's apparent that this really is the case as quite a few have closed or are closing.
So on Saturday we went to Leeds Grand Theatre to see the Royal Shakespeare Company perform The Tempest. I had high expectations of it really but it was a little disappointing truth be told. They gave it an African theme which worked really well but they raced through it all and speeding through the beautiful language combined with the heavy accents made it quite difficult to follow. If you didn't know the story beforehand you'd have been screwed. It wasn't all bad though I have to say. The music was good and the stage was great. I did feel a bit bad saying to Liz that it wasn't that great as she'd given us the free tickets! Speaking of Liz, she finished work this week so now Eleanor is now my line manager. She's my fourth manager in two years but it'll be fine being managed by her, we get on really well. Her team is a bunch of loons though so that'll be fun. I gave Liz some Racing Royals as a leaving present as we will miss her. I might get some work done now though as we've pretty much spent the last week talking!
On Saturday after the threatre we didn't do much apart from raid Zavvi/Head for cheap CDs. I got quite a pile from there and after eyeing up the Xbox prices decided to order one when I got home. Hurrah! I've wanted one for ages.
On Sunday we had lunch at Tom Popo which is a bit like Wagamamma but tonnes better. I got 20% student discount which meant it was really cheap and damn tasty. I dare say that we'll be back there quite soon.
Monday included another theatre visit, again for free due to the Night Less Ordinary Scheme (wonderful!). This time we went to see When We Are Married at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and it was brilliant. Clever set, funny play and great acting. Bizarrely it had Les Dennis in it! It was great fun though.
And then on Tuesday afternoon I travelled to Crewe (leaving my Xbox behind which arrived an hour before I left!) which is where I am now. Yesterday I went to see all of my old colleagues at the library. I spent a lot of the time talking to Sarah and Jackie really. It sounds like the move to Crewe is going to be horrendous though and they're mucking around with hours, so it's nice to know that there are other incompetant managers around. Sarah's going to be doing a library qualification next year so I said she can have all of my old essays! Brandy the library cat no longer comes to the library anymore which is sad. He's getting on a bit and he got into a fight with another cat on campus as hasn't really been back since. No more library cat! But also no more students asking if he's real or stuffed I suppose.
This morning we went to see my Grandma who seems fairly well. She wasn't all that great last week. Other wise I'm just hanging around at home playing on the Wii and reading a lot so it's not all bad. It's funny, I read an short article not long back about how lots of pubs are shutting and I wasn't convinced it was true as Skipton's many pubs seemed to be as busy as ever. But coming back to Crewe it's apparent that this really is the case as quite a few have closed or are closing.