13 days after I sent them an email, I did actually get a reply from Thames Water about the closed footpath.
“I have been advised by the Site Manager that the footpath you are referring to has been closed due to engineering works taking place at the site. We are looking at reopening the footpath for a short period in around 20 week’s time, but will close again once we start work on the new Desalination Plant.”
Not quite the reply I’d hoped for, but I thought it was nice of a large company such as Thames Water to actually even reply! I wish though that they would put this information on the big fences they have erected to block off the footpath so that the public know what’s going on.
My cousin Karen has been over for the last couple of weeks. It was a great couple of weeks!
It started at 6am on 17 October. Bleary eyed I walked to the tube, caught it to Heathrow and met Karen as she came through.
Then Hannah picked up in her fantastic new Fiat. Well, new as in “different”. It was so wonderful that I couldn’t bring myself to take a photo of it for some reason. Oh well, next time.
We went straight to Stonehenge, and stopped at the Welcome Break on the way to sample the delicacies – cupcakes, bacon and eggs, and mushrooms that smelled like vomit.
Stonehenge looks the same as the last two times I went, but I still don’t mind seeing it because it’s cool and not too expensive to get in.
Sam came to visit at Hannah and JK’s house, which was cool, I hadn’t seen him in years.
We went out for a few drinks, which was fun. I didn’t care much for Smokey Joe’s (the place we went to in Maidenhead), but the company was good.
Another day we went to Thorpe Park (an amusement park in London). The best ride – Stealth – was closed, but it was still a great day out.
The last picture is of the tea-cup ride, which sounds so tame but was so fun because you spun it yourself. We got up a lot of speed. Hannah said “wouldn’t it be funny if the ride had stopped and we were all still pissing ourselves laughing?”, and it turned out she was right! I took a video on my camera… you can see it here:
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Karen spent a few nights staying at my house, it was good to have the company. Also she spent a couple of days in Paris, Eastbourne and Brighton. It was clearly all very tiring:
I left Karen and Hannah in Slough yesterday (October 31) at 4pm.
Gee, it felt like just yesterday I wrote a similar post apologising for the lack of updating my blog! But actually it was 3 weeks ago! Perhaps I should set aside a whole category for apologising for the lack of updates.
In that way it seems time is going fast, but I’m looking forward to my trip back to NZ on Jan 7 that time generally seems to be going very slow. I think I need to get out more.
