So this week has been pretty busy for me.
On Sunday I spent 5 hours in a car driving down to my Grandparents house in Newcastle to be meet by my cousins too for a party tea (think little kids tea party) which was really sweet as I hadn't seen them in a while and they couldn't make it to the meal out.
Monday was my 17th birthday. At breakfast while I was opening my presents (more of that next week probably) my Grandma told the story of how she came back from the shops on Monday 20th October 1997 to meet my Grandad in floods of tears about being given their first granddaughter, there were tears in her eyes repeating it. I spent the afternoon in the Metro Centre before going out for a Chinese for dinner (we always go there when I'm down in Gateshead, the food is just too good not to!).
We took a trip to Beamish on Tuesday. It is an open air museum telling the story of life in the North East of England from the 1820s to 1940s. There is a school, church and mine in one area (as well as an old fashion fish and chip shop that is incredible!), an old fashioned farm in another and a town in the other corner. The 1900s town is built of bricks that came from houses just down the road from my grandparents house as my Grandad liked to remind my sisters. All the old shops were lined up and full of people dressed in clothes from that time on hand to answer questions and tell stories. First stop was, of course, the old fashioned sweet shop where in the kitchen at the back you could watch the men making the sweets. I love going to Beamish, even if it was full of school trips this time. Oh and the whole place is linked by trams, obviously.
Wednesday was a boring day, spending the 5 hours driving back home. Although I did finally get round to watching my McFly: 10 Years at the Royal Albert Hall DVD that my little sister got me for Christmas last year!
Thursday, Friday and Saturday we're spent at work, constantly answering "Yes we are closing down" (you would think the big read "CLOSING DOWN SALE" stickers covering the shop window would be obvious). I only have a few weeks left at this job so have been on the hunt for a new one but had no success as of yet.
On Saturday night, one of my closest friends, Paige, came over to celebrate my birthday. Diet on Monday I swear! After watching X Factor we decided to watch Insidious…I can't remember what people have said about it but to be honest I didn't think it was that scary and parts of it were so predictable, and the creature trying to take over Dalton's body is more comical than it is scary. The clocks also what back that night meaning an extra hour of Alan Carr Chatty Man.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday we're spent at work, constantly answering "Yes we are closing down" (you would think the big read "CLOSING DOWN SALE" stickers covering the shop window would be obvious). I only have a few weeks left at this job so have been on the hunt for a new one but had no success as of yet.
On Saturday night, one of my closest friends, Paige, came over to celebrate my birthday. Diet on Monday I swear! After watching X Factor we decided to watch Insidious…I can't remember what people have said about it but to be honest I didn't think it was that scary and parts of it were so predictable, and the creature trying to take over Dalton's body is more comical than it is scary. The clocks also what back that night meaning an extra hour of Alan Carr Chatty Man.
We went into town today to see Love, Rosie (more about that at a later date but I do highly reccomend it!). We had a quick nosy round the shop, including going into the Yankees Candle shop and smelling pretty much all of them, late lunch/early dinner at Yo Sushi (also one of my favourite places eat!) before the movie. The annoying thing was that I forgot to check the bus timetable so we had to hang around in Costa coffee for pretty much an hour and a half waiting for the 20:45 bus meaning I only got home about half an hour ago…hence why this post is going up so late/on Monday morning.
So anyway, back to school tomorrow/today depending if blogger behaves and uploads this. The return of kilts and this time, a red tie.
Esmee x
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