Oh what a weekend!

Well we've just got back from our weekend away looking at Newcastle University. Well the journey there was awful,we went up the A1 which has road works at every few miles seemingly. What with that and the fact that it's an A road but they've made it up to be a motorway, so you have turnings off it, and people and vehicles crossing it at intervals! So we were all really knackered by the time we got to our hotel, looking forward to a nice restful sleep.
Mmmm, that wasn't about to happen, we'd chosen a quite cheap hotel, and apart from a few bloodstains on the walls and the carpet looking like it hadn't been vacuumed for months, it wasn't too bad. The bed was comfy and there was the regulation telly on the wall so we were all set. However come 3am, the other residents all chose to come back from the nightclubs, and shout and scream and run up and down the corridor outside our room for 2 hours.
So we weren't in the best frame of mind the following morning to go to the open day at the university. It was ok, but Ben didn't really rate it as somewhere he'd put as his 1st or 2nd choice.
So all in all a long and tiring weekend, and to top it all when we got home (we went on the M1 this time, much better) someone over the back was having a party with music so loud it was better suited to Glastonbury. So another sleepless night, and we've got to go back to work on Monday....:(

I've just got back from the Great big Stamp and Scrapbooking show at Alexander Palace, didn't spend much this time, just bought a couple of new papers and some stamps. There's nothing new about at the moment so no temptation to buy!!
Back to work tomorrow after 2 weeks off, don't really want to go but I know I have to!