Holiday
Last week, I had a week off work with my girlfriend - our first holiday
together. Here is some of what we did:
Monday 20th October
We went to the
SEA LIFE centre in Brighton. It cost around £12 for an adult and
we parked in Madeira Drive, which is the road next to the centre, by the
beach. There is a good variety of sea life including tropical fish,
stingrays, crabs and giant turtles. The best part is probably the
tunnel, where you can walk can under the large aquarium.
SEA LIFE Centre, Brighton
After this, we went to Brighton Marina to look at the shops.
Tuesday 21st October
Today, we went to the cinema and watched:
How to Lose
Friends & Alienate People (2008). We thought it was funny and it
had some good moments, but I did not think it was as good as other films
with Simon Pegg, such as
Hot Fuzz
(2007) and
Shaun of the Dead (2004). However, I still would definitely
recommend that you go to see it.
After this we had a meal at
Blue India in
Crawley. The food was very good as always, however the portions are
modest. We have found it to be one of the best Indian restaurants in
Crawley.
Wednesday 22nd October
We went to
Butlins in Bognor Regis, West Sussex today. We did not really
know what to expect, as I had not been there for about fifteen years (when
I was about eleven years old) and my girlfriend had never been. We
found that it was mainly geared towards children. However the
'Splash Waterworld' was the best part and we spent a few hours there, but
we wouldn't go on the rides again! We then went on the go karts, but
they cost about £4 and you only get 3 minutes. My lap time was 22.28
and my girlfriend's was 25.51.
Thursday 23rd October
Today, we went to
Bluewater in Greenhithe, Kent, which second largest shopping centre in
the UK. It has 330 stores including a very large Marks & Spencer.
One word of warning, if you want intend to take your camcorder to do some
filming, like I did, don't. I was told off by a security guard and
made to delete what I had filmed and I wasn't even in any of the shops.
So much for a free country. The architecture of the centre was
impressive so I just wanted something to remember it by.
Friday 24th October
On our last day, we decided to go ice skating at
Guildford
Spectrum. This cost about £13 for two adults including skate
hire. Neither of us could skate and we spent most of the time
hanging on to the side! However, we started to get the hang of it
near to the end (mainly just being able to walk without holding on) by
supporting each other and luckily we didn't fall over once!
10 Years of Martin2k Update
Morphboy has been promoted once again to an Administrator
(congratulations Morphboy), this is mainly so he can set up a forum called
'10 Years of M2K', which includes the forum 'Chain Letter Project', which
he is managing (as mentioned below in the 7th October 2008).
However, the process has been revised as follows (from
Chain
Letter Project):
As you people can see, I've gotten my will through to make this
happen. I've been describing how this is going to work several times
before but I am putting it down once again so everyone is clear on this,
because it WILL require everyones full co-operation!
First off, what we'll be starting off with is to gather
applications. Only people who have applied to this project will be able
to see the secret project section, and it is mainly to make sure that
noone from the outside can use the addresses to each member that will be
published there.
As I said, there will be a thread in the project section where you
publish your address, afterwards it will be added to the big address
list of all project members. You people might think that it feels a bit
too risky to just have them lying around in the private section, but in
fact a lot of people's addresses on here can and have already been found
on the web, thus this will be the most efficient way for people
to make this work.
Once we feel that enough people have applied, I will get myself a ton
of cards and write one project members name on each one of them. After
that I will be putting all these cards in a bigger letter.
Once I've made the big letter, I'll send it to a designated project
member. The member will receive the big letter with all the cards
inside, and what he has to do is to write something on each card meant
as a personal message to the owner of that card, with their own personal
handwriting and everything. I will also of course I will do this before
I've sent the big letter to someone.
Once that project member is done, he will be reporting in to the
progress thread where all the addresses will be located (I will update
the thread to show who's next and so on). Once he's done that he'll
simply retrieve the next address in the list (the person that is
preferrably closest to him) and send the big letter to that person.
Once all members have received the big letter and signed all the
cards inside, the last member will be sending it back to me.
Once I get the big letter, I will be calling it a successful project
and take pictures of all the cards. Afterwards I will be sending each
card to it's owner, creating a memory of a lifetime on Martin2k that
will never go away, a personal greeting from all active members
on Martin2k!
Does this sound awesome or what?
All you have to do is to apply to me by sending me a simple PM saying
you want in along with your mailing address, and you'll be a project
member and be able to be a part of this awesome project.
So far 5 people are involved. |
