Friday, November 23, 2007

The Great Essex Adventure

I've been very busy lately with rehearsals for our upcoming performance for the work Xmas party ('tis truly going to be amazing!), but after rehearsals on Thursday I stayed the night at Sarah's. the next day we embarked on a journey across the country via road with non-working satnav to visit Patty once again. We did very well, only getting lost once (albeit for almost an hour!) eventually arriving at Patty's around 4.30.

A very cold and windy weekend, but lots of great birdwatching on the estuaries nearby, including our first sightings ever of avocet! All too quickly it was over, rounding off with a lovely lunch including the best ever hat chocolates, eve.! We had a thoroughly enjoyable time and thank him immensely for his hospitality!

Getting back was slightly less easy - the traffic on that circular carpark (M25) was appalling as ever, and continued onto parts of the M4, resulting in me getting back home around 8.45pm - a grand total of 7 hours. Not fun at all, but thank you to Sarah for providing the music and singing that kept us both sane!

We had our first proper rehearsal, including singing and dancing to Neil's amazing Powerpoint presentation - just so funny, it will be videoed and hopefully put on YouTube for the world's enjoyment!

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