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Published: August 8th 2007
In all the years I have lived in Winchester, I’ve never really made an effort to go to the
Hat Fair, but this time I was there at the right time, so we went in on Saturday, meeting Paula over a
Cornish Pasty. Plenty going on in the city centre, and, it’s classic, I stand still for 5 minutes (this was literally) and run into 5 people I know, and keep bumping into people as I move around… I love
Winchester! Got to see a Unicyclist, the vegetable-baby man and the long-neck Inspector Gadget types to name but a few. After a quick dash into
Sainsbury’s we headed to Kate’s for her birthday BBQ, which was fun, relaxing, and I wasn’t driving. Karen and I then relaxed back at the flat, watching junk TV and drinking a nice bottle of French red wine - nice!
On the Sunday, Karen was out, so I headed into Winchester to catch up with Paul’s ordination ceremony at the
Cathedral, arrived in time to sit behind a pillar and not see much, but got to catch up with Paul & Thaya afterwards and get a few pictures, so that was good. I then had a bit
of a walk around town, before catching up with Andrew, Lynne & Caleb, and then to pick up Helen to head off to
Christ Church for the evening service, Matthew Dietz’s first post-ordination service… we really picked up on the first part: “You want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans”… Keep trying to go to Vietnam for TEFL, it just wasn’t happening! After church headed round to John & Jeanettes.
Monday morning, I headed into
Southampton to get my hair cut… I thought I knew where I was going so didn’t have address/postcode in GPS and ended up on some very random route, and being about 10 minutes late, but Simon still fitted me in, and made sure I have a haircut which will last the overseas, as I don’t think I’ll have another chance to get back to Winchester before I go away! Then got a chance to go and see Helen, with Jonathan. She had helpers, so we got a chance to go to one of those massive
Tesco Extra’s - wow, they are huge. Found an 800g Down 2-3 season sleeping bag for £35 which is amazing, much as I worry about Tesco taking
over the world! Was a nice afternoon, then headed off into the traffic before it got too late to get back to the parents.
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