New Year New Adventures
New Year New Adventures
Given a crisp morning with nothing much else to do, we ( ..OK, Rachel) has decided we should have a drive out to get some fresh air and something to eat and so, we find ourselves at the Airport Bar around the outskirts of Manchester Airport. The whole place has had a top-down refurbishment and long gone is the runway-edge pub in its place is a top-end gastro-pub which looks like it’s been pulled straight from a design brochure. The outside area where you can watch the huge planes coming in is a firm favourite with the kids as is the new climbing frame.
Rachel has planned a short family break at Ribby Hall for us, my mum and step-father James to spend some quality time together however, it hasn’t quite gone to plan. Towards the back end of Christmas both me and Rachel have started off with a shocking bout of flu and are feeling pretty sorry for ourselves. We look and sound terrible and our faces seem to be constantly leaking! Rachel is slightly worse than me and for the first four days she remains at home mostly in bed whilst I take the kids to meet up with my mum and we set up for the week. My sister has recently moved closer to work in Freckleton and my niece Lauren occasionally meets up with her friends at the Ribby Hall Starbucks for a natter and we manage to catch up for a day together with the kids.
Rachel manages to join us for the last few days but neither of us are quite fit to be there and so, it’s a bit of a weird but lovely start to the year.
With little happening with the hall and work returning to normal, keeping the kids entertained becomes a bit more of a challenge. So on the last few days before school, pizza-night turns into a self-service pizza-night with the kids making their own micro-pizzas. And very tasty they were too!
At the end of the month Me and Adam make our way to the Manchester MEN for the Marvel Universe Live stage show and spend two hours at the edge our seats. Almost every character Adam has seen on TV and Cinema is there including a giant green hulk, motorbikes, dune-buggy chases, extreme BMX stunts and more pyrotechnics than you can shake a stick at. Whilst as a grown up, my focus is largely on where the pulleys and mechanisms are coming from, Adam spends the whole time buzzing with excitement right up until (spoiler alert) the good guys save the day.
In lesser news, I’ve just made a start on ‘Understanding Mobile Technology’ and have received 90% (Outstanding) on my Distributed Applications assignment which, considering I’ve been hoping to secure a 1:1 since I started, makes me feel like I’m back in the game.
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