Sulkyblue's Blog

I spent a very pleasant two days in Llanberis visiting Sam. I've been putting it off far too long and although the weather was absolutely miserable it was really nice to get out of London for 48 hours.


I took the train up as I figured I'd be completely crazy if I tried spending 7 hours in a car by myself. I've never travelled by train much and was delighted by the amount of space, the quality of the service and the amount of my book I got to read. Negatives included the cryptic nature of ticket prices, arseholes on mobile phones in the quiet coach and the tea shop in Crewe (where on earth is Crewe?!) which filled me with joy at the site of the Cadbury's Hot Chocolate machine and then dashed all my dreams by informing me it wasn't working.


The weather in Wales was completely miserable - blowing a gale and rainy, although on the plus side it wasn't that cold. We ventured out to a nearby slate mine on Thursday morning which was very impressive and probably worth the moderate terror I suffer when confronted with anything I'm supposed to travel over that is not flat. Didn't fall off anything more scary than a gate and I'm blaming that on slippery metal and new boots rather than myh complete lack of grace and balance. Having dutifully sampled Wales I retreated back indoors and spent the rest of the two day visit in front of the Xbox alternately being run over by Sam while co-oping on Halo or sniping at wookies on Star Wars Battlefront while Sam 'scouted ahead' (aka blindly charging forward all guns blazing and dying messily). Oh and after conclussive testing we can say that daytime tv sucks. Welsh daytime tv sucks even more.

I promised the owner I'd recommend the place I was staying (and where Sam works) to my friends, so here's the pitch - Boulder Adventures 14 quid a night for B&B in Llanberis. It's really nice, warm, comfy and convenient for.. um.. stuff. The pitch could use some work, but it really is a nice place to stay. I might even be tempted at some point to drag some other people up there for a couple of days.

In other news not much is going on. I've been waiting on someone to review my cv before sending it in for any positions, so hopefully that should start happening next week. I did one shift at the charity shop this week and was told that the manageress is being made redundant and the shop will be closing at some point in the next few months. This is a bit of a downer as now it's a matter of turn up and no one can be bothered to do anything, so I might have to go looking for a new shop to go to. The rest of the time has been spent pretty solidly watching films (Driving Miss Daisy, A Beautiful Mind and Brokeback Mountain this week - reviews here), playing on the xbox (Unreal Championship mostly) and reading (Life of Pi, The Great Gatsby and Diamond as Big as the Ritz - reviews here).