Sad, sad day.

Can you believe, this was me yesterday:

Walking along the pier.

This is the pier today, burnt to the ground:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7528258.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7528747.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7528165.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7528315.stm

I'm seriously upset :( I've been going there since I was a baby. I couldn't believe my ears when I was watching GMTV this morning and they said at 7.40am "Breaking news - Weston Pier is on fire". It started at 7am, they think it was a fire that started in the fish and chip kitchen on the pier, and it just took over. Very sad.


To make things worse, we're having a thunderstorm and torrential rain right now. It was just over a year ago that we had the floods and we're due more heavy rain during the night. They've been saying on the local news for the last 2 weeks that if we have rain like last year, we're still not prepared and could endure more flooding. Poor baby got soaked on the way home from work. He had to change.

Beach goodness

When I got home, the first thing I did was get in the bath and scrub my feet and legs to get the mud off. Went to Weston-Super-Mare today (or as it's generally known - Weston-Super-Mud) Was good fun. I took my bucket and spade, even if I didn't get a look in and the Guy spent the entire time building sandcastles instead of me lol.

Scrap your Day

Bopping along to Alphabeat "Fascination" as I type! I'm also in flow of "Scrap Your Day" so I've literally just taken a bunch of self portraits so I can pick one I like lol. So wonderful shots of me sat in the archive room at work on the desk because there are no chairs in here at all. So I jump up on the desk and set myself up here lol, eat my lunch & goof off.

Looking forward to tonight - We're off out with Stewart & Claire to watch Batman :)

Food's nearly done

Random picture of me from last Saturday when we went to Wales... Notice the lack of hair? Yup I had 10 and a half inches cut off! I have it here still so I will snap some pictures of my pony tail unattached to my head... The ones I took on the morning are on my mobile phone.


Two quick notes:
(1) Scrap your day... This Friday. I have my album ready - I'm already 4 months behind! But I'm taking part. Watch out people on Friday!
(2) Scrapblog. I haven't played on it in months, and when I was supposed to be researching a few personal things at lunchtime, I ended up on the site for half an hour.

Anyway, tea is cooked, time to serve up!

Port Aventura baby!

Ok, with typical British weather. Poo. I was hoping to go to a beach this Saturday and embrace my inner child and build sand castles (which people at work found rather amusing) or sand cars... Or The Guy suggested we go to Cardiff where he's from for the day... but it's supposed to be raining I think, according to BBC website but on GMTV they said it was going to be nice. So I suppose only time will tell.

I'm also super excited about the prospect of going to Salou in Spain. They have the theme park "Port Aventura" which is my favourite I've ever been to! Alton Towers bores me, you can easily do that in less than a day, but Port Aventura you need 2-3 days :) I wanted to go last year but I wasn't able to. Can you believe I have my map from 1997 still? Can't find the one from 1995 nor 2001. Nor can I find my super cool Port Aventura passport from 97 either. This was before it got taken over by Universal Studios. One year it was so quiet we went on the Dragon Kahn a dozen times in a row. Felt a little sick afterwards but still it was fun. I went the year it opened so I'm super lucky to have seen the park grow over the years, but the last time I went was 2001, so a visit is long overdue!
Here's some links to check out anyway: Official site | Wikipedia | Video with the rides
But I'm currently driving The Guy and all my work colleagues nuts about it. Not that The Guy really minds I suppose, cos I plan on smuggling him in my suitcase haha! But a lady at work told me that it's very similar to Disneyland... I've never been there so I wouldn't know.

And that would be my random posting for the day :)

More Randomness

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

LOL, just something quick while I'm waiting for my tea. Big fat fry up, yum yum! Sausages, egg, hash browns, beans... *drools*

Taking a breather

Just don't tell The Guy. He's very competitive and he'll be playing the game until he beats it.