I got up early today and took myself off to London. I can't believe it cost me £24.50 for a return! Its a nice train ride and you can even buy alcohol at the train station for the trip at 9am. Go Britian! I got to Kings Cross and headed for Russell Square and the British Museum. No matter what I do, I can't help getting angry in there at the way they treat the mummies, just shoved in cases with other arefacts, with slack jawed gawkers taking photos of them!...

Today I went for a trip to Houghton with my Aunty Wendy and Uncle Terry to see my Step Grand mother Marge. Its a lovely little area where she lives, a small viallage with little thatched cottages. Its funny, Marge says she sees a big cat around the place when she goes for walks sometimes, just like people have seen in Penrith. I though that an odd coincidence. We had a lovely time there and after I went and had some pictures taken with the houses there. Includin...

Still in Huntingdon, not too much to report. Went to visit Aunty Christine the other day, Gary offered to walk me home at about 10:30pm and we got to where I'm staying at 1:30am. We had to walk past the George, so of course we popped in for a "quick" Pint. I of course went to the Market Inn with Uncle David last night, my lighter holder/bottle opener belt buckle fascinated all, "Gotta be a Wilson with that" said Uncle David. There was a good ...

I've now been in the UK almost a week and not too much to report. I arrived in London on Wednesday and had to pay out about £40 to get to Huntingdon! I got the train from Heathrow to Paddington and was tempted to ask someone where platform 9 3/4 was. lol. I then got the train to Kings Cross and then onto Huntingdon. The culture shock coming to the UK hit me pretty hard. Everything is sign posted, everything works, people in positions of authority have more i...

After Whitby we moved on to Ripon and we were head for another Abbey, Fountains Abbey to be specific.Now I'm a person of historical background and at this point I didn't really want to visit another Abbey, I wanted to visit castles, places where great men had fought and died.When we got there it was almost closing time and we only just got in.The grounds were deserted, as we walked down towards the Abbey I noticed a large impressive tower standing out from the gr...