Birthday celebrations
Mar. 14th, 2025 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWednesday was durham_rambler's birthday: celebrations were low-key, as we have been distracted by builders, but we did manage to find a party to go to -
- if you can call something a party when it starts at 9.00 am. We had an invitation to the opening of the new building at the student development which currently houses Hild/Bede College: I'm still not sure who they thought they were inviting, butdurham_rambler is Chair of the residents' association, and he wanted me to accompany him, and since it was his birthday, and since I had to be up early because of the builders, and anyway why not, I went with him. The Vice Chancellor cut a purple ribbon, there were some brief speeches, and then we retreated from the sleet into the JCR and chatted with friends and neighbours (including the Mayor and the Parish Clerk) and drank coffee and ate pastries...
We weren't home long before it was time to go out to lunch: we had booked at the Vane Arms in Thorpe Thewles, where we have eaten before, though not recently. There were mussels on the menu, which always makesdurham_rambler happy, and the sun was shining, and after lunch there was a bus shelter repurposed as a book exchange to investigate (we got away without actually taking any books, although durham_rambler was intrigued by a biography of Josephine Butler).
Out again in the evening, to the pub quiz where, for the second week running we found ourselves in a three-way tie breaker for first place. We are not good at tie breakers, and we came third: but there's still a decent prize, and all the glory of top marks. And the winners were our friendly rivals, the student team on the next table, who have gone several weeks without a win, and were getting fractious, so it's all to the good.
durham_rambler's birthday: celebrations were low-key, as we have been distracted by builders, but we did manage to find a party to go to -- if you can call something a party when it starts at 9.00 am. We had an invitation to the opening of the new building at the student development which currently houses Hild/Bede College: I'm still not sure who they thought they were inviting, but
durham_rambler is Chair of the residents' association, and he wanted me to accompany him, and since it was his birthday, and since I had to be up early because of the builders, and anyway why not, I went with him. The Vice Chancellor cut a purple ribbon, there were some brief speeches, and then we retreated from the sleet into the JCR and chatted with friends and neighbours (including the Mayor and the Parish Clerk) and drank coffee and ate pastries...We weren't home long before it was time to go out to lunch: we had booked at the Vane Arms in Thorpe Thewles, where we have eaten before, though not recently. There were mussels on the menu, which always makes
durham_rambler happy, and the sun was shining, and after lunch there was a bus shelter repurposed as a book exchange to investigate (we got away without actually taking any books, although durham_rambler was intrigued by a biography of Josephine Butler).Out again in the evening, to the pub quiz where, for the second week running we found ourselves in a three-way tie breaker for first place. We are not good at tie breakers, and we came third: but there's still a decent prize, and all the glory of top marks. And the winners were our friendly rivals, the student team on the next table, who have gone several weeks without a win, and were getting fractious, so it's all to the good.
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Date: 2025-03-25 03:07 pm (UTC)I have heard that there are book temples where on can go and browse, and borrow books for a while, and take them back later without having to keep them. But it may be a legend.
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Date: 2025-03-26 12:40 pm (UTC)Oh, they are real! I have seen them. But they work on sich short time periods ...
And I confess, I do LIKE keeping books.