Wonderful Winchester

As you may or may not know I work at University College Winchester. Today during lunch I was taken to the river which runs past Winchester, which I didn’t know was there. It’s very nice. The sun was out and the ducks were playing in the (I suspect) freezing cold water. More… I was also taken to Wolvesey Castle which I also didn’t know was there. Fact - The last great occasion at Wolvesey was on 25 July 1554, when Queen Mary and Philip of Spain held their wedding breakfast in the East Hall. Now all that’s left are ruins, but a site to behold none the less. Amazing what you can find if you go looking for it.

Just paid for the holiday

Yesterday I did something very depressing. I paid the credit card bill. This is depressing because among the items it held are our holiday expenses, and one or two other rather costly items. It’s driven the bill to an all time high (over £2000). It’s been expected, but if I had paid for the last item on the bill just a day or so later it would not have appeared till next month.

Cyprus was very nice. Kind of Greek British mix. We stayed in Protaras on the south east corner of the island, just round a bit from Ayia Napa. They drive on the same side as us, but they drive very much like Greeks. You don’t need one of those electric plug converter things because they have the same plugs at the same voltage as us. The people were very nice, the sand was very soft on our beach (Fig Tree Bay), the sun shone every day (even when we had a very light shower), the petrol is very cheep (I reckon less than half the price of uk petrol). I want to go back. I can put up with clear blue sea’s which you can see to the bottom of even when it is very deep. If you smoke you won’t have to pay very much for your fix. If you drink spirits there seems to be no such thing as a measure, they just put as much in as looks right (which makes for quite strong cocktails).

I recommend going. But apparently it gets very hot in the middle of summer. We went in May, and it was very pleasant.

Back to work.

Tagged

While I was on holiday in Cyprus, Paul G0TLG tagged me… hmmm.

1. Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
about 30

2. The last film I bought: Bought?
Oceans Eleven
3. The last film I watched:
In the cinema - Can’t remember, but I’m sure it was rubbish. I seem to think it was something about bowling… just spent far too much time looking at Google – it was called “Blackball” And it was RUBBISH
On the telly: “The sweetest thing".
4. Five films that I watch a lot:
I used to watch “Back to the future” and “Back to the future 2” and “Back to the future 3” quite often…

Blog again soon no doubt.