Author Archives: Hope Helps

Tuesday at work we ran out of food (we all eat lunch there) so Miark took me down to a shopping center in Stockton Center to pick up some food from a bakery. It was like a little mall, but all the stores were crammed together and instead of having a food court with allContinue reading “Hot Chocolate High Street”

Saturday I went with Miark, Roger, Leigh, and some people from the Stockton club to the circus. It was fun, I guess. It was (I was told) the average size of a circus here, so like everything else here it seemed. . .small. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the majority of the acts, although theyContinue reading “Churches and Circuses”

On Monday at work Miark was chatting with Mini online and Mini asked if I would like to come to a juggling club in Sunderland with him and Tall Paul. In my quest to become a more adventurous person and to get the most out of my trip I said yes. The ride up thereContinue reading “Sunderland, Durham, and Marmite”

After the last blog I took a nap and was woke by Leigh coming in to see how I was doing. We talked for a short bit and then Leigh went off to get some food and I followed shortly thereafter. They had just closed down the cafe to start making dinner, so after aContinue reading “Bristol – Day Three / Home Again”

Yesterday I conked after blogging and slept until 3pm when I was awakened by a phone call telling me it was time to eat lunch. So I dragged myself over to the vegetarian of the two cafes. Someone had already ordered a lunch of lentil soup and “doorstop” bread for me, so I sat down,Continue reading “Bristol – Day Two”

Well, Roger’s van didn’t make it very far. About 20 or 30 miles south it started having problems so we headed back to switch to Roger’s car and start again. The rest of the trip was pretty quiet and uneventful, with different people sleeping on and off while we listened to four straight hours ofContinue reading “The Joys of Traveling / Bristol – Day One”

Yesterday wasn’t very exciting, I knew I would leave for Bristol today straight from work, so I raced home from work (at about 7pm) and started doing laundry. You remember that a lot of Brits don’t have dryers, well even with only washing to do, the energy and water conservative washer took a good hourContinue reading “On the Road Again”

Let me tell you what I did yesterday. It started out as my work days have started out for the last couple days, I went over to Roger’s in the morning and cause a ride to work. Leigh (lee) came in today at about 11am, she is about 20 years old, a really sweet niceContinue reading “Buggies, Beaches, and Juggling”

Today was my first whole day of work. I got up at 7am so I would have time to shower and eat before unicycling over to Roger’s to catch a ride in to work from him at 8:20. Monday is apparently the most hectic day of the workweek (they have orders from all weekend toContinue reading “A Day in the Life…”

-Everything is backwards. Not just the sides of the road that they drive on or which side the driver and passenger sides are, but the side that door handles are on, the way they turn, the way you turn keys to lock and unlock doors, the way you flip light switches to turn them onContinue reading “Random Things”