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Hello, welcome all to an extra long journal from me. XD
I have a lot to write about things have been happening, I should have written this last week, but I've been busy.
Well, the last Tuesday in February saw me embarking on a holiday. Something else also happened then, I'll get to it later. :p
It was my Uncle's 60th and he wanted to go to Ireland for it. All well and good. However, instead of waiting for Easter when things would be open and there would be better weather, and there would be time off from school and uni, no he went and booked it right in the middle of the term. XD
Still it was a good time. The weather was a bit uncertain, some days it was hailing and the hail was flying in parallel with the ground, the wind was cold too, arctic. However, we got to the pub in the end. :D
Yes, pretty much we went to the pub everyday, how good is that? Of course we also had to drink Guinness too, we found a really good pub, as we went around and visited other parts of Ireland, places about the ring of Kerry, we went to other pubs, but the Guinness wasn't as nice as it was in this one pub, if I remember the name, I'll have to give it, and give them some kudos. We also had breakfast there on most mornings, I tried my first black puddings, they're not bad, saying as what's in them. :p The white pudding was very nice too, I'm sure it was called a white pudding. :p
The plane ride was nice though, we flew from the East-midlands Airport as that's where most of my family are, and we met up there and got the flight together. My Sister and her BF (some know him as RossC, if you're in the Blitz community,) flew in from Scotland more directly, it was a good flight and it was nice and sunny, coming back was OK too, it was very cloudy though, you couldn't see much out the window other than fluffy fields of rippling cloud that went off into the horizon.
This trip also highlighted how much my family like to drink, it really did. :p While on holiday every day for a week we had between 2-4 pints of Guinness (ladies had halves,) on top of that where we were staying we had about half a bottle of wine each and after that some of the others had a bottle of Jameson's. XD Hmm, well we were on holiday. :p
The Tuesday night before flying out I went to sleep at my Grandparent's place, they have a large house and me and my Mum and Dad stayed there to sleep, though come one O'clock, we were pretty much all awake, you'll know what it is if you're in the UK. :p ZOMG Earthquake. XD I remember waking up and just hearing the rumbling, I thought it was a jet aircraft going over the house at first, (G&G live next to a flight path,) but then of course things started shaking all the pipes and radiator clanging away and you could here all the pots tingling. For some reason there was a light outside that was flashing on and off. I knew what it was pretty much straight away as I was woken by the smaller tremor we had a few years ago. My Dad jumped out of bed screaming because he was still dreaming, lol. Not sure what my Mum thought, my Grandma thought Granddad had rolled over in bed and Granddad didn't even wake. XD
There wasn't really any damage to anything, everything moved, but, if everything moves relative to each other then, nothing will fall down. :p
There was a Church closed because it's spire cracked, a few chimney pots fell in places, one person got injured by one as it crashed onto their bed, or something.
Back home after the holiday you could tell things had moved, I quickly readjusted a few things in my room. I haven't bothered cleaning my cupboard, all the boxes fell down, and I had them all neatly stacked up too. :s My brother, who stayed in the house, had to fix a kitchen cupboard door as it fell off its hinges. That's really about all, it gave me some excitement for a few days anyway. XD
So after the excitement of all that, now we have really really had weather hitting the UK. Over the weekend the met office basically up the entire UK in a sever weather warning for the next few days. The winds really whipped up the waves and it coincided with the high spring tides too. There was some coastal flooding and some really cool pictures and videos of the waves, it's been reported that the wind did most of the damage though, causing transport routes to be jammed, trees to fall, roofs to fly and so on. :p We got away with it that day. However, I was passing our barometer that hangs in the hall and one part of the afternoon the pressure fell so far it went right don't past stormy and the needle was almost off the bottom of the scale, a record low for that thing to measure.
Tuesday I had to go into uni, I managed to miss most of the bad weather though, it was only drizzling when I went out and the bus was nice and warm. I was in uni quite late, I loose track of time easily. Anyway, it must have been about 4:30pm and suddenly the sky turned black and it went very dark, then winds got up and bloomin' heck, you should have seen the rain sweeping around everywhere, I'm glad I wasn't traveling home in that. At 4:45 the sun came out and it was still throwing it down, this formed probably the brightest, most defined rainbow I think I've ever seen, as Dad said, I should have had a camera. The rain stopped soon after and I managed to get the bus back home, it just started raining again as I was getting in the door. So I was very lucky. :p
Today and last night it was the turn of Northern Ireland, Wales and England as well as southern Scotland, to get the wind, from the weather, me and D. were in the red area, but only just. :p
I get hit by wind more than Duragan. anyway, I live on a hill and there isn't much to stop the wind blowing at the front of the house, maybe a another hill few miles away. I hope your garage is OK, Duragan. Well it was very windy and wet, I was woken up by several bumps in the night, and the roof was creaking like something else. Luckily it's made to bend in the wind, which so it causes all the wood in it to creak, but it still sounds bad. XD It knocked the bin over last night, that falling woke me. Also the green house has moved again, it's a lot more free now, earlier in the year the wind hit it and sheared some bolts off of it, so now it's free to move around some more. Nothing much out of the usual for this year is happening, it's just much harder to stay standing if you go out the house, the motorways down the road are also closed, and some lorries were blown over last night while crossing the viaduct.
Well enough of all that, you can tell I get exited about all this sort of thing. XD
Now onto uni, not much to report there, just doing lots of coursework, will hopefully be handing in my terms of reference soon too so I can get my final year project under way, just waiting on someone to get back to me.
That was quick, here's something more important than the above and that is in the form of a shark. XD Steven asked me to be his BF so I happily said "yes!" :D I might as well announce it. :p We've been together for a bit. However, he didn't ask me till the other day.
Then there is Lynn, BlizzardLynn has become my partner in Second Life, I asked Steven if I could and he trusts me to be careful enough with it, so I'm in SL giving Lynn some support now. :)
I suppose the last thing on my list is I've decided to scrap my sheezy art account, I went off it a while ago when all my artwork suddenly went missing. However, now there is nothing, not even an avatar on my page, so I may pet it up again, but not any time soon. :s
See ya around,
SDF
I have a lot to write about things have been happening, I should have written this last week, but I've been busy.
Well, the last Tuesday in February saw me embarking on a holiday. Something else also happened then, I'll get to it later. :p
It was my Uncle's 60th and he wanted to go to Ireland for it. All well and good. However, instead of waiting for Easter when things would be open and there would be better weather, and there would be time off from school and uni, no he went and booked it right in the middle of the term. XD
Still it was a good time. The weather was a bit uncertain, some days it was hailing and the hail was flying in parallel with the ground, the wind was cold too, arctic. However, we got to the pub in the end. :D
Yes, pretty much we went to the pub everyday, how good is that? Of course we also had to drink Guinness too, we found a really good pub, as we went around and visited other parts of Ireland, places about the ring of Kerry, we went to other pubs, but the Guinness wasn't as nice as it was in this one pub, if I remember the name, I'll have to give it, and give them some kudos. We also had breakfast there on most mornings, I tried my first black puddings, they're not bad, saying as what's in them. :p The white pudding was very nice too, I'm sure it was called a white pudding. :p
The plane ride was nice though, we flew from the East-midlands Airport as that's where most of my family are, and we met up there and got the flight together. My Sister and her BF (some know him as RossC, if you're in the Blitz community,) flew in from Scotland more directly, it was a good flight and it was nice and sunny, coming back was OK too, it was very cloudy though, you couldn't see much out the window other than fluffy fields of rippling cloud that went off into the horizon.
This trip also highlighted how much my family like to drink, it really did. :p While on holiday every day for a week we had between 2-4 pints of Guinness (ladies had halves,) on top of that where we were staying we had about half a bottle of wine each and after that some of the others had a bottle of Jameson's. XD Hmm, well we were on holiday. :p
The Tuesday night before flying out I went to sleep at my Grandparent's place, they have a large house and me and my Mum and Dad stayed there to sleep, though come one O'clock, we were pretty much all awake, you'll know what it is if you're in the UK. :p ZOMG Earthquake. XD I remember waking up and just hearing the rumbling, I thought it was a jet aircraft going over the house at first, (G&G live next to a flight path,) but then of course things started shaking all the pipes and radiator clanging away and you could here all the pots tingling. For some reason there was a light outside that was flashing on and off. I knew what it was pretty much straight away as I was woken by the smaller tremor we had a few years ago. My Dad jumped out of bed screaming because he was still dreaming, lol. Not sure what my Mum thought, my Grandma thought Granddad had rolled over in bed and Granddad didn't even wake. XD
There wasn't really any damage to anything, everything moved, but, if everything moves relative to each other then, nothing will fall down. :p
There was a Church closed because it's spire cracked, a few chimney pots fell in places, one person got injured by one as it crashed onto their bed, or something.
Back home after the holiday you could tell things had moved, I quickly readjusted a few things in my room. I haven't bothered cleaning my cupboard, all the boxes fell down, and I had them all neatly stacked up too. :s My brother, who stayed in the house, had to fix a kitchen cupboard door as it fell off its hinges. That's really about all, it gave me some excitement for a few days anyway. XD
So after the excitement of all that, now we have really really had weather hitting the UK. Over the weekend the met office basically up the entire UK in a sever weather warning for the next few days. The winds really whipped up the waves and it coincided with the high spring tides too. There was some coastal flooding and some really cool pictures and videos of the waves, it's been reported that the wind did most of the damage though, causing transport routes to be jammed, trees to fall, roofs to fly and so on. :p We got away with it that day. However, I was passing our barometer that hangs in the hall and one part of the afternoon the pressure fell so far it went right don't past stormy and the needle was almost off the bottom of the scale, a record low for that thing to measure.
Tuesday I had to go into uni, I managed to miss most of the bad weather though, it was only drizzling when I went out and the bus was nice and warm. I was in uni quite late, I loose track of time easily. Anyway, it must have been about 4:30pm and suddenly the sky turned black and it went very dark, then winds got up and bloomin' heck, you should have seen the rain sweeping around everywhere, I'm glad I wasn't traveling home in that. At 4:45 the sun came out and it was still throwing it down, this formed probably the brightest, most defined rainbow I think I've ever seen, as Dad said, I should have had a camera. The rain stopped soon after and I managed to get the bus back home, it just started raining again as I was getting in the door. So I was very lucky. :p
Today and last night it was the turn of Northern Ireland, Wales and England as well as southern Scotland, to get the wind, from the weather, me and D. were in the red area, but only just. :p
I get hit by wind more than Duragan. anyway, I live on a hill and there isn't much to stop the wind blowing at the front of the house, maybe a another hill few miles away. I hope your garage is OK, Duragan. Well it was very windy and wet, I was woken up by several bumps in the night, and the roof was creaking like something else. Luckily it's made to bend in the wind, which so it causes all the wood in it to creak, but it still sounds bad. XD It knocked the bin over last night, that falling woke me. Also the green house has moved again, it's a lot more free now, earlier in the year the wind hit it and sheared some bolts off of it, so now it's free to move around some more. Nothing much out of the usual for this year is happening, it's just much harder to stay standing if you go out the house, the motorways down the road are also closed, and some lorries were blown over last night while crossing the viaduct.
Well enough of all that, you can tell I get exited about all this sort of thing. XD
Now onto uni, not much to report there, just doing lots of coursework, will hopefully be handing in my terms of reference soon too so I can get my final year project under way, just waiting on someone to get back to me.
That was quick, here's something more important than the above and that is in the form of a shark. XD Steven asked me to be his BF so I happily said "yes!" :D I might as well announce it. :p We've been together for a bit. However, he didn't ask me till the other day.
Then there is Lynn, BlizzardLynn has become my partner in Second Life, I asked Steven if I could and he trusts me to be careful enough with it, so I'm in SL giving Lynn some support now. :)
I suppose the last thing on my list is I've decided to scrap my sheezy art account, I went off it a while ago when all my artwork suddenly went missing. However, now there is nothing, not even an avatar on my page, so I may pet it up again, but not any time soon. :s
See ya around,
SDF