Busy, Busy.

Time flies and the mundane jobs seem to pile up - well housework and washing up can always wait till another day

On Thursday, it was the last lecture of the season and the AGM of the North Staffs Group of the Geological Association. A journey to Keele University, and an interesting lecture on the Middle Earth  - not the Centre as I had thought - but the middle layers.  It was informative and helpful to me for when I have to do a Geology exam later in the year.  The lecturer has a similar lecture on Youtube so I shall be looking up that one.

On Friday evening, F and I went to a student production of Alan Bennett's 'History Boys', at Keele University.  Because we are members of the Keele Concert Society we get emails about all sorts of events taking place there.  When we arrived there, we found that we were the only adults in the audience (a couple of lecturers came in later) and when the performance was fifteen minutes late in starting we began to wonder what we had let ourselves in for.  The performance was very well done and we were glad we had made the effort to see this performance. Perhaps it was part of the drama course to produce live theatre - hopefully, the actors earned good marks towards their degrees.

On Saturday F and I went over to Wales - the roof of the chalet has been refelted and we had to meet up with the roofer to see the completed work and settle the bill.  We now have a sound roof.  We decided to go for a pub meal and it coincided with the England-Wales Rugby match in the Six Nations competition, so we ate and watched.  England won! 
As we left the pub we noticed that the cinema, opposite the pub, was showing 'The Revenant'.  So we finished off the evening going to the pictures.  A brutal and gory film in parts, but not gratuitously so.  If you haven't seen this film, then we can recommend it. The 160 minutes went by very quickly and raised questions that are pertinent today.

On Sunday, we went to church in Tywyn for morning service.  Then we went on to the ice cream factory - an essential part of any visit to the chalet.  We went back to the chalet to do some housekeeping jobs and by the time we were ready to go back to the Midlands it was the middle of the evening, so we stopped for some food on the way home. 

We arrived home in the early hours of Monday morning - and all the mundane jobs were waiting for us for the week ahead.

Please excuse my grubby windows

The green woodpecker has visited our garden again, so I think he is local rather than passing through.

I happened to glance through my kitchen window and there he was, tucking into an apple.  I dashed to get my camera from another room and this time he stayed long enough for me to take a few pictures.

I didn't dare to open the kitchen door because the noise would have scared him away, so with help from F who pulled open a couple of slats in the venetian blind I was able to get the camera close to the window for the shots.

Trouble is, my windows are in need of a clean so the photos are a little misty, but there is no mistaking what sort of bird he is.