I believe, Love is the answer
I believe, love will find a way

No, I'm not in love. Thank goodness. It's just that a certain friend of mine just sent me that song by Blessed Union of Souls. Go listen. Very nice.

I've been ordered to keep blogging by quite a number of ppl. So blog I will. See? I DO listen. Sometimes. :p

So, we'll talk about England shall we? Pretty countryside, very crowded towns. Stayed with my mum's cousin Aunty Joan, her husband Uncle David, and her mum Aunty Molly from Saturday to Monday. She has a really nice house. huge garden. BEAUTIFUL LIBRARY. seriously. she...or more like, he, since uncle david is the reader in the house, has books from eons ago. and a fireplace. with real fire. haha. a ladder, attic, beautiful bedrooms. if i weren't so proud of being singaporean, i might be tempted to go live there. haha.

We went to lyme sunday morning...it's a seaside town, where a scene from sense and sensibility was shot i think. There was the huge rock cliff, which we can walk on...and there's nothing between u and the sea. nothing. beautiful.

spent the afternoon by the fireplace reading. doesn't that just sound wonderful? by the fireplace. reading. sigh. haha. and the next day we went for a huge lunch at a hotel down the road. can't remember what we ate, but it was a LOT. couldn't finish it, not even dessert, which was cream cheesecake. mine anyway. my mum's was strawberries and cream. mmm. went for a long walk after that, to work it all off. walked down the path to the stream...through a trail into the forest. by the sheep fields and pond. it all sounds like a fairy tale doesnt it? it sure felt like it.

tuesday morning we left for Bath. Dropped by the jane austen center first..it was pretty good. i found a ladybird in uncle david's car...i'll post a picture of it soon. then we went to the town center....to the Roman baths (which gave Bath it's name) and Bath Abbey. beautiful town. had fish and chips for lunch, then dad got us ben and jerry's ice cream. they have this ben and jerry's sundae. 2 scoops with fudge and whipped cream. the fudge is between the ice cream...kinda like a fudge sandwich. the guy at the counter gave me 3 scoops...and it took me 1.5 hrs to finish it. it was a LOT. i've sworn off ice cream till new year's eve haha.

This is gonna be a long post.

They dropped us off at Stratford-upon-Avon...it sounds familiar cuz it's Shakespeare's birthplace. Really nice little town - a bit touristy, with everything from Shakespeare's parents house to his wife's childhood home to his brother-in-law's house a tourist attraction. but the funniest part was finding a Singaporean-run B&B there. i wouldnt mind staying in B&Bs really, some of them are quite lovely. And Stratford has the potential to be a very romantic getaway. but enough of that. :p

Spent 2 days in Stratford, then we drove down (or up. heh.) to North Hampton to see my aunty and kid cousins. 2 boys, christian and jordon. they really are adorable...havn't seen them for 2 years...christian's now 7 i think, and jordon's 5. something like that anyway. they were hyper. couldn't keep still for 5 seconds - their mum said it's cuz they were excited, but their dad said they are always like that. and i want 7. LOL. Had dinner at a nice motel, then crashed. I've never slept so well as those nights in england...probably rarely as physically exhausted, and mentally relaxed. hrmph.

The next day we took the train to London, Euston. Watched Stomp! and Fame, and finished all my postcards (which still, according to sources, havn't reached their destinations.) The Strand was just like I imagined it to be, full of theatres, and actors and actresses just walking in and out of them. Didn't see much else the first day, but the next day, which was the last day of our holiday, we took a tour of London.

That tour was probably the most entertaining one I've been on. The guide's name was Trudy, and she was hilarious. She called us all sausages ( a supposed term of endearment), angels, babies, darlings...rather reminiscent of a certain teacher from kc. haha. We saw the Tower of London, took a boat tour, had lunch at a pub, in no particular order and more but those were the stuff that stood out. Ever wondered where the nursery rhyme 3 blind mice came from? Well, the 'farmer's wife' in the rhyme refers to Queen Mary I, cuz she was apparently pretty ugly. a nicer explanation would be that she owned lots of farmland, but then, so did a lot of royalty. Anyway, the 3 blind mice were 3 noblemen who had plotted to keep the throne from her, but when she did get to the throne, they tried to make amends. unfortunately, she wasn't the forgiving type, and though she didn't exactly 'cut off their tales with a carving knife', she did burn them at stake. Here's the poem if you forgot: