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Hello Everyone!

Finally a chance for me to do some decent writing as there have been computer turn issues between me and Darren, mhere I graciously step back and let him have the computer since he can’t have it while I’m at work this week and he’ll therefore be quite bored and have not much to do.

Right now I’m sitting on a patch of grass outside the Jade office in York waiting for Darren to come pick me up. This could conceivably be a very long wait for two reasons:

1) I rang Darren to get him to come and he didn’t answer so I texted him (on a borrowed phone I no longer have access to)… so it could be some time before he even sees the message.

2) He may be lost as he is off exploring York and has no maps.

3) He may have found a shop that sells Do Who toys and this would therefore put me lower down on his priorities.

All this is ok because for the moment it’s not raining and it means I can write this! I’m just worried about work people from the office I’ve just left driving past and thinking I’m weird for sitting waiting outside and javing not got in touch with Darren proper;y. Oh well I’ll live.

So the flight and trip here was absolutely fine. I watched Shrek the 3rdw The Bridge to Tarabithia and Blades of Glory, as well as the entire season two of Extras. It was a reasonably stressful time through to get the train at Kings Cross with lots of lugging of very heavy luggage and gettting on and off the underground but it all went smoothly and a very tired Mindy and Darren checked into the hotel on Friday night at around 6pm.

The hotel was lovely. We splashed out and had a meal there, probably the most expensive meal I’ve ever had really at 14 pounds. And it was grilled chicken annd chips. But there was a lot of it, and they bought us free apetisers. I didn’;t want to look uncivilised by not eating it, even though it was prawns and they are the one thing I don’t normally eat. So I ate it and it wasn’t bad. It was actually kinda nice. They also bought us free bread and dipping oil with our main.

Saturday the first hiccup of the trip when we got a ride out to the airport to get our rental car but I didn’t have my credit card on me to pick it up. So after a bit of a wait we caught a taxi back to the hotel and got it and went back out again. Then we were back on track.

I think our first stop was Frenchgate mall which was a reasonably big mall. Though probably about the same as Northloands or Riccarton, with some bigger shops though, and all the main UK clothing shops etc, like Next and Topshop. And there was a Marks and Spencer across the road.

We then drove to my work to see where it was and drove around a housing area nearby called Lakeside. It’s a sort of posh area but we think we’ll try and get a place there anyway. The rent’s not too bad even when you do convert it to NZ dollars… which Darren does with everything. He’ll probably stop soon enough though. Ok Darren’s here to pick me up that didn’t take too long! So I’ll try and write again soon.

Love Mindy