Go Giants!

The San Francisco Giants are current 2 games to none up in the World Series! I sure didn't see that coming - even the Giants being in post-season was a big surprise for the great majority of the season.

I'm going to watch the 49ers - Broncos game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. Think of the San Francisco fans who decided months ago to come over for the game and now probably wish they could be at home enjoying the World Series and the atmosphere in the Bay Area, which must be amazing.

HMS Tartar

I've been meaning to blog about the weekend we recently spent in Bournemouth at the annual meeting of the MHS Tartar Association. This is the ship that my Father-in-law served on in 1941-42 in the North Atlantic. It was decommissioned and broken up in 1948, but a new ship with the same name was launched afew years later. My FiL was the only representative of the earlier ship there, the others being from the later incarnation of the Tartar; but he (and his daughter and I) had a great time and were made to feel very welcome. We've already decided to go again next year in Scarborough.

It was also my first real visit to Bournemouth, and I definitely feel it's a place to come back to for a couple of nights to explore and enjoy properly.

Didn't make it!

When I got to the train station yesterday morning, I found that no trains were running to Birmingham until Monday! So the soonest I could have made it to the Conference Hall was Monday afternoon, after forinstance the Chancellor's speech. Plus it would have cost me an extra £30 to get there. When I got home I called the hotel in Brum and they very graciously agreed to cancel my 4 night reservation without charge. So I never made it to the Conference and am watching it on TV instead - not ideal (as I was going to meet a good friend there for dinner as well!) but atleast I'm about £750 better off by not going. So every dark cloud . . .

Birmingham Here I Come!

I'm off to my first Conservative Party Conference tomorrow morning, and I plan to update my Blog each night I'm there. So I'd better not have TOO much wine with dinner!