We travelled up north at the weekend to go to a Maxïmo Park gig in Newcastle. Jo and Chris were going with us (and had in fact organised the trip, so thanks to them for that :) ). We headed in to Newcastle itself on Saturday afternoon to get checked into our hotel, then off to Tilleys Bar for a beer or two before grabbing dinner in one of the ( Read more... )

Marillion did a (fairly short) UK tour just after the new album came out and we went to the show in London on 16th Sept. We did a bit of museuming beforehand (which I'll write up another time), then met Ady & Pete at Kentish Town to find dinner before the show. Paul was supposed to join us too, but his trains were all screwed up so he had to give ( Read more... )

We've been to find a few caches in Ipswich since coming back from Northumberland, but with a lower success rate. The first trip in Ipswich was a complete failure - we were only looking for one cache, which is in the park near our house. Unfortunately when we got to the rough area of the site we discovered it's completely overgrown with nettles, ( Read more... )

We managed to fit 4 households in 4 different places into a week and a half this Christmas (ok, that includes our own, which makes it a little less impressive ;) ) - which meant we saw several people but none of them for quite long enough ( Read more... )

We've just come back from the Marillion Weekend 2011 - basically 3,000 or so Marillion fans take over a Center Parcs in the Netherlands, and the band play 3 shows over the weekend and there's all sorts of other Marillion-related stuff.


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Not dead! The last week or so got busy and used up a lot of my mental energy - not particularly on the same things - and LJ posts were the thing that slipped. So I've a bunch of catchup-type posts to write over the next few days. Loosely these will be (if they all get written): this generic one, one about our British Museum trip plus the Essex ( Read more... )

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After Christmas we did our annual trip round the country to visit family. Since getting the car we've done it as a three-point trip, home -> one place -> other place & back home to minimise the travel time, but that does make it feel a little like we're always just about to get in the car & go somewhere! However, it was nice to see both sets of ( Read more... )