Our pal Sarah came up for a weekend visit and we went through some of her old video tapes, converting some of those recordings to DVD. One of them was the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" musical episode! Thanks for the gift of the old video recorder, BTW!
Mark came to see us on his way home from a railway group meeting in Crewe - easy, as we live on his train line h
ome. Apart from watching the first five episodes of "Star Wars: Clone Wars" cartoon, on the Sunday we drove out to the 'Battlefield Line' private railway in Leicestershire. That was a nice little hour or two out, and it was great to visit the museum in the old Shakerstone station, and see the train come in. Lovely easy drive out there, and it was fun to see the village called "Barton in the Beans" on the drive back! Also, I gave Mark some old railway books and other stuff I had acquired as a bit of a late birthday pressie!I attended the "Memorabilia" show at Birmingham's NEC a couple of weeks ago. It was ok, and nice to see some friends there and meet a couple of celebrities. I only bought one item, a book of photos from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
As she says on her blog, Carla had to go back to the US to attend her father's funeral a couple of weekends ago. :( We are going for a trip there soon to see the relatives again.
While Carla was away, I popped home for a quick visit to see mum and dad in the Great Yarmouth area. I drove pop down to the sea front to see the construction of the new outer harbour, as he is interested in the project. On my way back here later that day, I was caught in a two-hour traffic jam on the A14 near Newmarket! This was due to a fatal accident which had closed the road all afternoon. Of course, this was on Holiday (Easter) Monday and so the roads were busy with returning day trippers from the coast....lots of traffic! The traffic crawled through Newmarket, and I got back late around midnight - a frustrating tiring journey!
I've started to type up my father's Second World War diaries into a little document, including some photos that I got scanned a while back. Must try and get that completed next week!
Last Sunday I got together with my friend Toria who lives locally, and we went to the cinema to see "Monsters v Aliens" after a pleasant walk along the canal as it was a nice sunny day! The film was very entertaining as I spotted a lot of the references to 1950's sci-fi b-movies, such as "The Blob", "Attack of the 50ft Woman" and a load of others. Great CGI animation as well. As for DVDs, we have a few backed up to watch, including a load of Marilyn Monroe flicks, "The Notorious Betty Page", and "Robin of Sherwood" series 2 from the 1980's!
