Pottering around

Well, the past few days/weeks have been spent pottering around doing bits and bobs but nothing particularly of note other than the following.

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Last Friday I took a day trip to America (yes really!) to get my visa for next year. It's a strange feeling to stand on American soil in the middle of London! I had a nightmare with trains but did just get there in time and spent 4 hours at the Embassy, in all that time I spent a grand total of 6 minutes (yes, just SIX MINUTES) talking to a consulate official but they gave me a visa so I can't complain. In fact as I have been sitting here writing this the nice courier man delivered my passport complete with visa!

This past weekend I have been up to Newcastle to do some support raising and visit friends. I had a great time but once again it wasn't very long and I packed a lot in, driving all over the city visiting people. I also had two great stops at some of my favourite sites, Longsands Tynemouth and The Angel of the North. On Sunday night I took a stroll down Longsands at midnight which is a place I used to go and walk and pray either on my own or with Matt. It's such a relaxing place at that time of night and just somewhere I love to meet with God.

Longsands

I also got the chance to stop off at The Angel and take some nice arty shots to remind me of home when I get to America, this rather nice one is currently my desktop background!

Angel of the North

On the way home from Newcastle I stopped in Keighley and Sheffield and only got back at midnight!

Yesterday I took a trip to Gloucester to do a bit of support raising which was cool other than driving in the nastiest most burning hot day in years without air con in the car! Still Gloucester isn't a half bad place...I can chalk it up on the "visited" list now.

So now the pottering will continue. Up until European staff conference a week on Monday I am simply doing some support raising and dealing with the accounts which have come back from all the summer projects...now there we have a fun job! Errr...