Day 2. After a loving nights sleep. Honestly that bed was really comfortable and being given a wonderful Blanket to go with the existing cuddling duvet was just put icing on an already layered cake. I woke up particularly early in comparison to every else in the house. So i waited snuggly in bed until I heard movement. The hour went by very quickly just because it was so snug in that bed. And almost simultaneously everyone in the house was moving. And because I did not know what everyone was doing and their traditions for getting up I decided this was a great text to ask my friend
"I wanna get up,
what do i do?"
Obviously this did not work out well, because they didn't the text for about another hour, so i played pokemon until then. then Magically I got a text before the delivery report. But basically I was guided to a bathroom and was told to enjoy myself from there.. Really helpful in the morning ;)
So the real test in the morning was to see if I was able to eat anything. Great news! I was! A quarter bowl of cereal and 3/4 of leftover apple crumble. (it really was delicious, i really wish I wasn't ill)
The other highlight of the morning was going on a computer and removing the photos from my friends camera. Not only were there alot. But they had me inclusive, and many were cringe worthy of myself! No matter what anyone says, i really should keep my mouth shut!! But I was happy to look at the past couple of weeks and know that memories were created, and they were certainly not wasted on me. I also expect some of those photos to be uploaded soon!
So the next bit is the car journey. I am not sure how many people have shared cars with an ill sniffling person, but the experience can become quite horrific. I APOLOGISE ONCE MORE! still more than 100 miles in a car listening to multiple musics and a couple of jokes. Went by like nobodies business. No traffic jams. no mass hold ups. No "was it the last junction of the next one?". If i wasn't in the car that probably would have been the perfect car journey! We did nothing productive in the back and my friends mum made a very sweet boot for their baby relative. It was so cute between the two of us we both cried "WE WANT A PAIR!". And I stand by what I say! I want a knitted pair of boots!
Car journey was lovely, I need to steal my friends music at some point. I got some photos of places, they may be up at some point on the internet.
The next bit. Arriving Northamptonshire. more specifically Kettering, At the MacDonalds. Where I learned a rather important lesson. Don't let a smaller sibling, who is convinced you have gone to the other side of the country rather than just 100 miles north west a bit, take your phone calls. So basically by the point, i still wasn't eating, but we had a nice time trying to find a seat in a 'restaurant' that is not only the most hated by culture, but the most popular on the street. Seriously, everyone says they dislike MacDonalds in some way and yet they still eat there! MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!
Now is the bit of the day I love, because of sheer insanity. My friend had played everything down so she wouldn't be disappointed by anything. Which I find kind of sad, but on the other hand the people who did come, you are now eternally confounding me! 3 people turned up to this park. I have yet to give them all nicknames suitable for my blog. but still. We were dropped off outside a park and left to our own devices, my friend mum told us to seek refuge in the church if need be. I guess at that time we kind of wrote it off as a silly idea and probably wouldn't be needed. anyway! we walk in to this park and we are alone, with in minutes the other 3 turn up. now I have names for them. "withaY", "D" and "darts"
IN this park alone we must of broke the law at least twice!! i was told that one area was cordoned off. They had removed said cordon and we were now tramping all over this area which was obviously restricted for a reason!
so shortly after realising it was cold we went in search of shelter. At which point we discussed preferences on alcohol. Like the small alcoholics we all are, everyone else was going, yeah this "larger" or "beer" would be nice. No. I refuse to like this small band of alcohols we call larger and beer. "It tastes like Human Piss!!" I believe is what i shouted. Seriously, alcohol it's either gotta taste nice, or be it has to blow you'r F**Cking head off. so i think we found out which is my favourites :)
So we went to the local village hall to find shelter. It could only be described as a novelty fountain really, all seats were wet and no matter where you stood you were still rained. This lasted for about 5 minutes before we all decided to head back in to the village to sit inside a bus shelter. Where at last i got my guitar out! It was time to show some skill to these wonderful strangers whom I was already hugging!! (just want to point, that I don't think that usually happens, so what ever made me hug "withaY" all day long, I do not know but i suspect you will drive me crazy for a while yet!) I tried to play guitar to them. But..... it was cold and I could not move my fingers, and strumming it just felt like slapping a wet fish with a block of frozen rice balls.
So we moved on..... (great idea really) we went to a pub to see if it was open...... it didn't open until 5
So we went to a co-op nothing particularly special happened there other than D showing his prowess for getting a staff discount and us all hating the valentines marketing!
[D is known as D as there is no other way i can refer to D, i really wish i got to talk to D a bit more, D seems really wonderful, but WithaY was hugging me too much, or was it, i was hugging WithaY too much.....]
Now the really special bits! If i could replay any bit of this day, it would be from here on. We were cold. Looking for shelter and the Co-op had no heating. So remember that piece of advice mabel's mum gave us?
That rung through my head to no end. So I shout to mabel, Why don't we go to the church? and I was listened to! I loved it!
So travelling to the church, we walking. still cold. But laughing at whatever came out of our mouths and then something odd happened. 3 police cars went down the same street. and by the second time, withaY says "hold on.. That's my street!" As we walk down it, another comes roaring down, lights blazing. and just turns around in a junction and BUGGERS OFF AGAIN!!! :O! Seriously productive police there!
The church, like most others in the country, was happily open, so we go in. and try. it was not warmer in there. Until we found a Heater
This heater should be praised and put up on some form of pedastal. the heat and light it provided us with was so very appreciated. so we spent 3 hour in this church.
now this is where I will really get back in to the blogging detail i used to do before this MASSIVE story.
I can try to say I have never fallen in love with situations before. But that would be a lie as there are so many moments in life that make us proud, happy, sad, angry, etc,etc. An example would be, mid conversation witha friend of mine, eating jelly babies, a complete stranger walks by. They just pass me, and i suddenly go "sir would you like a jelly baby?"
Best bit was, he took one!!
Similar moment, wait for guitar ensemble to begin, by wait for the other member to begin. We are not allowed to eat in the corridors. I just got back from a Co-op where I got some more jelly babies. opened them up and was sharing them out to those who were there. Music teacher walks by, says hello. And Out of nowhere I offer a jelly baby. She refuses at first, then takes aback and says "wait did you say jelly baby?"
"yes"
"ohhh
go on, i thought you were offering me a wotsit"
I honestly could not think of a more random reaction! But I loved those moments. The church hours. I think i loved it more! Well the rest of the day was like the church. we sat down in front of this heater and just TALKED about random things. we played my guitar and ate each others sweets. of course I still wasn't eating at this point.
But something that stood out to me in there was my ability to be not only be comfortable but be able to "snuggling" with WithaY almost the whole time! I think I got attached to her! Hoenstly! I find it really awkward touching people when i first meet them. Its like "oh no i brushed your hand!!!" and I literally freak.
So WithaY, congratulations, You enter that group of the few who DRIVE ME UP THE WALL!!
Okay, for those who dont understand, this a little group of people I tend to keep close by, because i adore them so much. no matter what they so, do, or think about, it will inevitably drive me insane from just thinking how we got there, and Why we did it. not that everything should be linear and coherent to our thoughts, but this group of people I will never understand and I wish to never do so!
But back to the church! Warm, snuggling, and we got a shit ton of photos from in there.
3 hours went by like nobodies business and so we went to the pub. where they were late opening. i honestly think i would have thrown up if they were any later opening up! I was told i had turned blue but everyone once again was so loving and gave me their scarves!! i know it wasnt much. but the sentiment was so VERY sweet! I honestly can not express how much something that small can mean! That tiny bit of extra warmth changed almost everything!
So now we are inside the pub. D sets up the pool table lovingly, and Darts goes to the darts board. This is why we know Darts as Darts. because for the rest of the night up till about half an hour before myself and mabel left to see fiancée (note, she's not my real fiancée, this is just something we did together and now its just stuck. I do thoroughly enjoy it! You know and I do love her, just as much as I love any of my close friends :) You still drive me insane fiancée, and i have mentioned fiancée before just we never referred to each other like this before.). Fantastically, Darts was trying to achieve a bullseye before the end of the night. sadly not achieved. but we got so many great photos from it.
So in the pub we basically hogged the pool table all night, and when we ran out of money for it, we went and sat down at a table and play truth or dare. Because we were all sober. We all took Truths.
One thing I really liked about the pub was asking for hot drinks. usually when you ask for a cup of tea and it costs £1:10 you expect a rather big cup of tea. Oh No, i didn't get a cup of tea. I got a cup of sugar cubes
A whole just of milk, a rather large cupe for the tea, and an entire pot of freshly made tea with 3 tea bags in!
They gave me a do it yourself kit for tea! Thats fantastic! How a very "british" way of serving, by not giving you what you order but about 3 more times the amount youll ever want.
I dont know about most other people, But I think that was value for money really :P
As much as i loved the pub also, not just because it had central heating, but also because of the constant hugging of WithaY, the great game of pool against D and D's Dad! And Darts was amazing also. The whole time was great. But basically to finish off the day I went to fiancée's house.
Basically... fiancée is the reason why I willing came up to northamptonshire. I would have come anyway. But fiancée was really behind this. Although i wanted more time, we only got 8 till 11 oclock. We were fed there, and even though i served myself, i literally could not eat the INCREDIBLY TINY portion I had. It was macaroni cheese. it was lovely and fluffy, Like it should be! And i served myself according to what i could eat. it was such a small portion You COULD COUNT HOW MUCH PASTA THERE WAS ON MY PLATE. 16 pastas. and there was still 8 left when i finished. For that I am sorry!!!
So after food. we got guitars out and jammed in the lounge. Had a bit of a serious talk. But I believe with a little effort from everyone, it will be fine.
If not I will have to plan manically and change everything. MWHAHAHAHA.
Jesting aside. We did have lots of fun and i fulfilled most of the promises i made when i was planning the trip out to fiancée. So i got that off my chest :)
Later D and WithaY turned up and i was on the floor in pain (no details why) and the driving me insane continued with both fiancée hugging me, and WithaY hugging me, whilst simultaneously them hugging each other. THANKS FOR THAT!! The floor was boring otherwise! Then the parents all turned up and we went up stairs for the last of the photos and we all went to our various places of rest.
I really enjoyed my day out! i made some great friends! (I hope ;) ) and i may ahve walked in on the middle of something while i was Ill, but Thank you all!! YOu have all done me something great! I really want to return and want you lot to come to where I am! Thank you for being the reason i believe in humanity!
So to finish this Extra long post, i would like to thank Mabel AGAIN for everything done. and I wish to know, how does everyone feel about communication through the internet? I see it as a way of meeting people i do like, and I really wish to continue speaking to people through it! But it does not substitute for that of being there! So leave opnions if you must.
TAKE EXTRA CARE OF YOURSELVES
(I shall post day 3 a little late, as this one took a while to do
Thanks for the patience!)
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