Houghton House

After seeing Steve and Helen for food we drove to Leeds to spend a night at the Travelodge in Colton so we could visit Mum and Dad for lunch. Traditional Wood food, soup and a sandwich followed by home made scones and cake - wonderful stuff.
On the way back to Hatfield we drove to a couple of English Heritage properties and Geoff got to see how truly exciting it is trying to match the road map to reality!

Clifford's Tower

From Bolsover we drove to York and parked at the Designer Outlet to get on the park and ride into York. We did all the usual things, once round Clifford's Tower, the Disney shop, the model shop,  . . . The list goes on, and then back to the Designer Outlet for a fish and chip dinner and onto Hull to sleep at the travelodgehotel.

In the UK

We flew at 5pm on Friday and apart from a small problem with the hire car that took a good half hour to sort out, the six suitcases and us made it to Ivy's in one piece. Bacon sandwiches for breakfast on Saturday and the north to Bolsover Castle to see the 17th century dressage. Unfortunately the 1pm show was full and we wanted to move on before 3pm so we will return later in the year when we have more time to spare. We did wander round and were treated to an amazing hail storm that covered the ground as though it had snowed.

Felucca Ride on Sinai Day

School is over for the next two weeks so to start the holidays we went on a felucca ride with Brian, Liz and Lisa. Maddison was busy organising her friends for their own outing so she stayed at home.
We went south down the Nile as far as the church of  the Virgin Mary where the Holy family are said to have set sail for southern Egypt.
Then back to the straps and into TGI Fridays for lunch where we were joined by Amir and Margret and Sara.

24th April Charity Day

 

Egypt’s Copts run to a different calendar to Western churches so we haven’t had Easter here yet, Palm Sunday is this Sunday and it is Easter Sunday on May 5th. This means we are on holiday and for the last day of term the school held some charity events. I contributed with a donation that meant I could gunge the new school principal.

 

We are going to the UK for a week now, taking back some of our stuff and visiting family and then back until June 30th and after that we still don’t know!

Mothers Day

 

Guess what it was on Sunday! I still had to go to school though. When I got back there were blue flowers and pizza and an email from David who had remembered. lol

long time no blog

 

Well what is there to say apart from everything is the same. Maddison and I are on half term this week, Geoff was off last week. Maddison is doing some re-sits to improve her grades from C to B’s or better while I write assessments, reports and moderate some coursework. Non of the jobs I have applied for so far have realised what they are missing, or maybe they did, anyway I keep on sending them off. Maybe we will have to live with Geoff’s mum?

On the Prophet’s birthday we had a day off so Geoff, me and a guy he knows from school went to take pictures of sunrise over the pyramids. What do you do on a day off? Get up at 4am! Mad! From here we popped across to the Khan which was empty at 8am, many of the vendors are thinking about moving on now there are fewer tourists. Then onto City Stars for breakfast at the Mexican! Back to the house for a sleep after that.

 

 

WE have been to Timothea’s for a pancake breakfast  this week. She can’t get over the fact we eat ours with ice cream on, although I found a Canadian eating them with  peanut butter and maple syrup which seemed weird to me.

We watch the tragedy that is Egypt going on around us, you would think some of the men had never read the Koran the way they treat the women! Food prices rise and the poor seem to get poorer if that is even possible. Soon there will be elections but instead of getting it done in a couple of days they are saying there will be four sessions over the next 2 months, aiming to be completed by June 6th in time for the opening of parliament.  Of course some of the opposition parties say they will not stand as it is a waste of time, everything is corrupt, how do they expect to change anything if they don’t give people the opportunity to vote for them?