I'm off!
On another wee holiday! To the most glamorous of resorts - Birmingham! Wooo! Well, more Sutton Coldfield, which is the posh part of Birmingham. They're so posh they claim they're not even in Birmingham! So posh, Aston Villa players live there in mock-tudor mansions. Um.
We're staying here, and on Monday (our first wedding anniversary - aaaahhhh) we're going here to go on 'Britain's Scariest Ride'! I haven't been to a theme park since my early twenties, I hope I haven't turned into a complete wuss since then. When I was very young my favourite Drayton Manor ride was the Jungle Cruise which was kind of like a trip up the Amazon (if the Amazon ran through Tamworth). I would be very surprised if it's still there though - it was really quite racist! There were animatronic black people with bones in their noses putting a vicar in a cooking pot. Bizzare. Oh apparently it's been replaced by a medieval ride (launched by Atomic Kitten, for some reason, wouldn't Robert Bartlett have been a better choice?).
Saturday is my cousin's wedding and the reception is in Drayton Manor too, but in a function room, not on the rides (sadly). I hope the weather improves for it.
I've noticed that another messageboard that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leedy unavand myself are members of (the one that spawned our knitting club) are having a seven-a-side football tournament. Are any of yis signing up?! We could knit our strips!
We're staying here, and on Monday (our first wedding anniversary - aaaahhhh) we're going here to go on 'Britain's Scariest Ride'! I haven't been to a theme park since my early twenties, I hope I haven't turned into a complete wuss since then. When I was very young my favourite Drayton Manor ride was the Jungle Cruise which was kind of like a trip up the Amazon (if the Amazon ran through Tamworth). I would be very surprised if it's still there though - it was really quite racist! There were animatronic black people with bones in their noses putting a vicar in a cooking pot. Bizzare. Oh apparently it's been replaced by a medieval ride (launched by Atomic Kitten, for some reason, wouldn't Robert Bartlett have been a better choice?).
Saturday is my cousin's wedding and the reception is in Drayton Manor too, but in a function room, not on the rides (sadly). I hope the weather improves for it.
I've noticed that another messageboard that
leedy unavand myself are members of (the one that spawned our knitting club) are having a seven-a-side football tournament. Are any of yis signing up?! We could knit our strips!
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And do you remember Little Plum ('Your Redskin Chum') in the Beano? *cringe*
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The American Adventure is a world of depressing these days. It's run by really pissed-off ex-miners, and you can get a season pass for £30 so there are all these fourteen year olds who haven't been to school since they were twelve hanging around sniffing glue.
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I can't imagine the American Adventure being anything other than depressing. Brits trying to do American stuff - it's a recipe for disaster really.
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