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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Eastbourne






The MacFarlanes lent us their wheels this weekend. Being zany and spontaneous, we resolved to drive to the Welsh coast on Friday night. Common sense overtook us and we settled for Eastbourne on the south east coast, being a slightly more manageable distance for a one day holiday. Eastbourne is the slightly richer distainful cousin of Bournemouth. We stayed in the Cavendish hotel, a name New Zealand readers will probably associate with carpet, which was reasonably good (£90 approx per night). Definite highlight was "Beachy Head", a suitably silly English name for something that is actually rather grand; a spacious reserve running along the chalky cliffs (see above) west of the town, culminating, as these things always do, in a deserted lighthouse.




Saturday, December 08, 2007

Football

Here are some brief bits of digital video taken during my first football game at Old Trafford, the home ground for Manchester United (thanks to the trusty and now slightly antiquated Canon Ixus 430). Manchester United beat Fulham 2 - 0. I know this because 75,000 Manchester United fans chanted this information periodically.

I like the bit at the beginning because the security guard was very conscious of the mascot doing something behind him, but he seemed to be under strict orders to keep facing the crowd.

Items purchased from Manchester United merchanding mega-store: Manchester United cap, Manchester United baby hat x 1, Manchester United baby bib x 2.




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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Medieval privy, Battle (near Hastings)