Pancakes, corn mazes and boats, oh my!
Oct. 22nd, 2008 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI've had a wonderful few days with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paranoidangel42 visiting. She arrived on Saturday and we had a relaxed evening recovering from her flight. Then on Sunday we did a bit of a road trip, visiting the sugar camp near Truro where they made PA some vegan gluten free pancakes (yay!) and took us on a tour of the camp so that we could learn how maple syrup was made. On the way back, we stopped at a corn maze that I'd heard discussion of and discovered that it was really rather a large maze in corn eight feet tall.
We ended up navigating by mud - "I haven't seen that mud before!"
Monday was spent over in the city doing a bit of exploring. We visited capital hill in time to see the noon gun fired (quite a climb!) and, after lunch, explored the Museum of the Atlantic completely. It was fascinating to learn things about my city that I hadn't learnt even after all these years of visiting.
Yesterday was a quiet day, visiting a second hand bookshop in the morning and mooching around at Fisherman's Cove in the afternoon.
PA read a lot while she was here, trying to cram three Chalet School books from my shelves. But she did it! I spent a lot of time reading SFX and Doctor Who magazine borrowed from her. It was weird to realise that I actually miss them, despite rarely reading them when I lived in England.
Actually, what I think that I really miss is having a sci-fi fan around. Not that I had a sci-fi friend around much in England, but I got to chat Doctor Who and Star Trek with a couple of people at work and I've missed that. We spent a lot of time discussing other stuff, but we did spend a fair amount of time discussing Doctor Who, fic, writing, the state of sci-fi generally. Oh, and bitching about Willian Shatner's ego. Heh.
I really need to find the sci-fi community here. Maybe there will be contacts at work? After all, I'm going to be employed as a Programmer (official job title!) and there are always geeks in IT :-)
Now I'm going to watch Holby City (eee!), SJA and the hours of stuff that I videoed over the last couple of days. Still not entirely convinced about Fringe, but I did record it, and I already love My Own Worst Enemy. Heroes is always good and I have two episodes of that stored up.
I also have two Doctor Who DVDs from the library. After all, I don't need to job hunt anymore!
paranoidangel42 visiting. She arrived on Saturday and we had a relaxed evening recovering from her flight. Then on Sunday we did a bit of a road trip, visiting the sugar camp near Truro where they made PA some vegan gluten free pancakes (yay!) and took us on a tour of the camp so that we could learn how maple syrup was made. On the way back, we stopped at a corn maze that I'd heard discussion of and discovered that it was really rather a large maze in corn eight feet tall.We ended up navigating by mud - "I haven't seen that mud before!"
Monday was spent over in the city doing a bit of exploring. We visited capital hill in time to see the noon gun fired (quite a climb!) and, after lunch, explored the Museum of the Atlantic completely. It was fascinating to learn things about my city that I hadn't learnt even after all these years of visiting.
Yesterday was a quiet day, visiting a second hand bookshop in the morning and mooching around at Fisherman's Cove in the afternoon.
PA read a lot while she was here, trying to cram three Chalet School books from my shelves. But she did it! I spent a lot of time reading SFX and Doctor Who magazine borrowed from her. It was weird to realise that I actually miss them, despite rarely reading them when I lived in England.
Actually, what I think that I really miss is having a sci-fi fan around. Not that I had a sci-fi friend around much in England, but I got to chat Doctor Who and Star Trek with a couple of people at work and I've missed that. We spent a lot of time discussing other stuff, but we did spend a fair amount of time discussing Doctor Who, fic, writing, the state of sci-fi generally. Oh, and bitching about Willian Shatner's ego. Heh.
I really need to find the sci-fi community here. Maybe there will be contacts at work? After all, I'm going to be employed as a Programmer (official job title!) and there are always geeks in IT :-)
Now I'm going to watch Holby City (eee!), SJA and the hours of stuff that I videoed over the last couple of days. Still not entirely convinced about Fringe, but I did record it, and I already love My Own Worst Enemy. Heroes is always good and I have two episodes of that stored up.
I also have two Doctor Who DVDs from the library. After all, I don't need to job hunt anymore!
