Yesterday, was not such a fun day. The hotel job I have been working at is still great, but it has been a bit difficult lately, due to certain aspects of it not being what I expected... as such I have kept an open eye for a new job. Luckily such a prospect came along, but in trying out my new job and not wanting to leave the old job, I ended up working one very busy 6 hour shift, and another 5 1/2 hour shift, just about back to back yesterday. Combined with being generally quite tired and slightly ill... it was a pretty looong day.
The good news is that my job stuff is pretty settled now, and so I wont have to worry too much about doing that ever again.
So back to today... after a long day/night of work yesterday I was more than thrilled to gain an extra hour overnight. In celebration of the first day of winter, Liz from Bristol (but now from London) came down for the day. Well, she didn't come down specifically for the occasion, it just so happened that our planned get together conincided with the first day of winter.
Lucky for us, while winter is here in theory it is not here in temperature as it was warm enough for us to walk around all day and sit on the beach. In fact, it was warm enough yesterday that people were eating outside on the patio part of the restaurant I was working at.
In true british style just about everyone was out in full force enjoying the weather. I believe that this was quite unfortunate for the climate change activists who were out and about in town, because while I personally believe in the cause for stopping emissions - I imagine it would have been a very difficult task to promote climate change to people who were out and about enjoying a sunny day which would otherwise be cold and rainy.
Liz and I had a good day which included walking on the pier and playing the amusements a bit, lunch at wagamamas (yum!), and a nice walk around the shopping centre with a focus on previewing the christmas displays and decorations. (yes Christmas is already upon us) I believe that Christmas comes earlier here due to the fact that Halloween is not celebrated as much... for three weeks now a store near my house has had a sign up counting down the shopping days until Christmas.
We also sat on the beach with quite a number of other sunshine revellers... one of our amusements while relaxing on the beach was putting together a full english breakfast out of rocks and shells... unfortunately we were unable to find toast and beans, but see how we did below;
sausage, egg, bacon... uncanny no? The entire breakfast is about the size of my thumb.
It was really nice to have a completely relaxed day, to see a familiar face, catch up on a bit of gossip from the ol' museum in Bristol, and to just spend some time puttering around Brighton.
just a quick note about my photoblog. I am going to start using it to post occasional photos but have given up on my plans to post a photo for every day for the meantime anyway. I have put some photos up tonight, and have also created a new photo album called Brighton October in my online albums. To access them follow the links in the sidebar, or for just the new photo album, click the photo below.
- Chris
p.s. what better thing to do than to end the post with a picture of Brightonians enjoying their 'first day of winter'
2 comments:
Isn't the first day of winter Dec 22?? now i'm all confused. It just makes me want to hibernate.
Rebecca
p.s. I love the english breakfast...my mind boggles at the shells. Too bad there's no beans on toast. Yum!
i have also become confused on this subject. At first I thought it was because over here they call it "Winter Time" and "Summer Time" instead of 'day light savings' and so I thought, maybe I had misinterpreted with people saying. "Oh its the first day of winter time" thinking "wintertime" as one word. But then since coming to that conclusion, I've seen other references, to it now officially being "winter" so I have no idea still!
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