After my trip on the Belfast wheel I did some internet research and found that there are Wheels at the following locations
- Belfast
- Manchester
- York
- Royal Windsor
- Greenwich
- Hyde Park
I have therefore set myself a challenge for my summer in the UK. I am going to 'fly'n each of these Wheels. I am already half way there having flown on the first three in the list, the Yorkshire Wheel being added to my collection last Friday when thanks to the Daily Telegraph, Sian and I had a 2for1 flight on the Yorkshire Wheel, which is sited a the National Railway Museum, York.
I have booked myself a room in London for three days after SUbmerge, where I plan to fly the three London based wheels. I have already flown the London Eye which is not technically part of the set as it is owned by British Airways, rather than World Tourist Attractions. WTA do have moer wheels but these are in Australia so will have to wait for a while.
I have had a busy wheel since returning from Belfast, a process that took a surprisingly short time. I left Chez Guthrie at 7pm on Monday and after a 33 minute flight, I arrived back at the Music Box at 10pm.
On Tuesday I met up with my old boss, Ross, who is geography teacher and attempted to get my head around the AS geography specification so that I can teach it in September. We talked for just over 4 hours, without drawing breath and missing lunch completely! I have aslightly beter understanding of the geography now, but it was great to catch up with Ross, and it reminded me that I really do miss the chats we used have after school, when we would put the world to rights.
After this I headed over to Great Houghton, for tea with the Waggies and to get my instructions on how to get to Mother Ivey's Bay, so that I can join them for a few days in August.
Then on Wednesday I went up to Darlington to stay with Meg, so that we could go to Singalonga Sound of Music!!!!!! It was fantastic, there can't have been a nun's habit for hire in the whole of Darlington, 'not even for ready money'!
The theatre was full of SoM fans, who after a warm up and a fashion show, which included 100's of nuns, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, brown paper packages tied up with string, and even a huge warm woollen mitten, sang along to the film, cheered for Maria, booed at the baroness and set of party poppers when Maria and the Captain kissed for the first time and all in all had a wonderful time.
Saturday saw me at Stalybridge Congregational Church (where I grew up and where my mother is still a member) to share with them my experiences over the last 10 months. They loved my presentation and where very complimentary, this was followed by a lovely supper including my mother's home made meat and potato pie!!
I was back there again this morning to take the service and was once again very well received.
This week is another busy one in which I have to complete the wedding cake ready for it to be transported to the reception venue on Wednesday. I also have various sessions to get ready for SUbmerge which starts on Sunday.
One slightly worrying thing is that I completely forgot that I should have been meeting Dan and then gone back to Derby this evening with him. It had completely slipped my mind until he contacted me at 5pm checking that I was alright. I could only put this to a 'senior moment' which does not bode well for the future as I am only 37...
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