Saturday 20th Januray 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
A Dundee Adventure
Frannie and i have certainly been having our fair share of adventures over the past few days!
Friday morning we set off to liverpool aiport where we flew up to Aberdeen, over the beautiful snow covered higlands. We had a bit of a mad dash to get the train (which cost us the same as the flights!) and then fran's mummy met us at the train station in dundee.
It was very cold and windy in Dundee, but we still braved the weeather and did exciting things:
We visited the sea (which is literally at the end of the road!) and the castle, had hot chocolates in the glass cafe on the sea front, wore lots and lots of warm clothes ( including hats in bed!), spent lots of time reading (i finished my books on the journey up there, so spent the rest of the time reading New Scientist - which for some reason has disappeared from our house this year - it was always entertaining reading whilst on the loo!), we had thai curry on Saturday night, a big long lie in on Sat morning (well fran did - i decided to scare frannie's parents by having a hypoglycaemic attack and nearly fainitng - everything went white and sounds went very far away! - but they saved me by putting sugar in my tea - so thankyou!!) and went to the singing bit of church on sunday morning, leaving before the sermon so we could get back to aberdeen in time for our flight!
Here endeth the adventures of the Hannah Lady and frannie.
Miss you lovely ladies
xxx
Friday morning we set off to liverpool aiport where we flew up to Aberdeen, over the beautiful snow covered higlands. We had a bit of a mad dash to get the train (which cost us the same as the flights!) and then fran's mummy met us at the train station in dundee.
It was very cold and windy in Dundee, but we still braved the weeather and did exciting things:We visited the sea (which is literally at the end of the road!) and the castle, had hot chocolates in the glass cafe on the sea front, wore lots and lots of warm clothes ( including hats in bed!), spent lots of time reading (i finished my books on the journey up there, so spent the rest of the time reading New Scientist - which for some reason has disappeared from our house this year - it was always entertaining reading whilst on the loo!), we had thai curry on Saturday night, a big long lie in on Sat morning (well fran did - i decided to scare frannie's parents by having a hypoglycaemic attack and nearly fainitng - everything went white and sounds went very far away! - but they saved me by putting sugar in my tea - so thankyou!!) and went to the singing bit of church on sunday morning, leaving before the sermon so we could get back to aberdeen in time for our flight!
Here endeth the adventures of the Hannah Lady and frannie.
Miss you lovely ladies
xxx
Surviving the Storm
Thursday morning, gale force winds hit the north coast of wales...i decided it would be rather exciting to go on an adventure to the local Spar shop to buy milk, so set of on the walk round the corner. As soon as I'd left the hospital grounds the wind really picked up and i was battling the wind all the way to the shops (i was blown backwards on several occasions!) the way back was easier - i got blown all the way home!!
However, during my brief time away from the safety of my accommodation here, the wind had picked up so much that lots of the tiles from the roof had been blown off all over the car-park (narrowly missing the parked cars)
I ran quickly across the car park into the accomodation (thankfully no stray tiles fell on my head!) I then sat at the kitchen table working (yes i do that sometimes believe it or not!) From there i had a good view of the men in yellow jackets and hard hats who spent a lot of the afternoon staring at the roof, willing the tiles to stay there!
By the time Frannie arrived later that afternoon the men in yellow coats had come up with a solution to reduce the risk of damage to medical students if a tile were to fall on our heads...
Hard Hats!!
These were put in buckets, one at the entrance to our building to put on before we left, the other bucket of hard hats at the far side of the car park where it was deemed we would be free from the risk of falling tiles! How considerate the staff are here! It proved an entertaining distraction from work for the rest of the evening watching med students scamper back and forth across the car park wearing their hard hats!
Here is frannie and i as we cross the car park in our hats before we visited frannie's Nain and grandpa and uncle for dinner:
North wales is proving entertaining!
The Hannah Lady
xxx
However, during my brief time away from the safety of my accommodation here, the wind had picked up so much that lots of the tiles from the roof had been blown off all over the car-park (narrowly missing the parked cars)
I ran quickly across the car park into the accomodation (thankfully no stray tiles fell on my head!) I then sat at the kitchen table working (yes i do that sometimes believe it or not!) From there i had a good view of the men in yellow jackets and hard hats who spent a lot of the afternoon staring at the roof, willing the tiles to stay there!
By the time Frannie arrived later that afternoon the men in yellow coats had come up with a solution to reduce the risk of damage to medical students if a tile were to fall on our heads...
Hard Hats!!
These were put in buckets, one at the entrance to our building to put on before we left, the other bucket of hard hats at the far side of the car park where it was deemed we would be free from the risk of falling tiles! How considerate the staff are here! It proved an entertaining distraction from work for the rest of the evening watching med students scamper back and forth across the car park wearing their hard hats!
Here is frannie and i as we cross the car park in our hats before we visited frannie's Nain and grandpa and uncle for dinner:
North wales is proving entertaining!The Hannah Lady
xxx
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