(Notice the decapitated Spanish Lady doll half way down the left-hand picture!)
She was, however, good "nuts"! Excellent fun, chatty but not intrusive and considerate.
On Saturday, we spent ages in the Whitby Museum, a museum which, until very recently, was in private ownership (though open to the public) and with an excellent collection of local fossils and strange things, such as the leech-powered "Tempest Prognosticator":
In which leeches generate an electric current which is measured to determine whether or not there is going to be a storm. We also found this, which I don't believe is the thing's real name:
A bird named to - surely? - make schoolboys giggle. There are SO many interesting things in this museum and it is really just another of those Victorian cabinets of curiosities which I love so much. We spent 4 hours in there. After we came out, it was off to the Abbey to wander about there:
There are loads more pictures of the Abbey and of the Museum on my Flickr pages.
The day was capped very nicely by an absolutely first-rate wood-baked pizza!
Could have done without the incessant shagging of the couple in the room above us. Also could have done without the fire alarm they set off by smoking in a non-smoking hotel. (They claimed it was the kettle, but the landlady knew better, of course!)
Sunday was horrible. We woke to more shagging from the couple above and rain blowing against the windows from outside. It was bitterly cold and wet so we abandoned plans to stay till evening and went north to Saltburn, where I wanted to see the funicular railway, the first in the UK but it was shut. Not only that, but it was too cold to even walk about so we had a warming coffee (and a delicious Yorkshire curd cheesecake) and set off on our return. In the evening, it was that time again when the christmas lights in glasgow are turned on. Uncle Clive has worked hard again to ensure that the neds get something fun to pull down and vandalise: they were not disappointed this year and managed to completely collapse a model stag before the lights were finished.
We enjoyed ourselves, being backstage and getting the best view of the fireworks! That followed by dinner in Ichiban made for an excellent evening.
Back to the usual routine this morning.
Pah!