I'm off!

[lazy_hoor]

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  Oh apparently it's been replaced by a medieval ride (launched by Atomic Kitten, for some reason, wouldn't Robert Bartlett have been a better choice?).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  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!

Comments

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! I remember the American Adventure! It's hard to feel you're in the wild west on a dull day in the midlands.

And do you remember Little Plum ('Your Redskin Chum') in the Beano? *cringe*

[biascut.livejournal.com]

No - I never read Dandy or Beano, but we saw a terrifying TV programme about them other day which alerted me to what I'd been missing out on!

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.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I didn't see that programme but I can imagine!

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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

jeepers! i didn't remember little plum, but NOW i do. wow. /u\