Nic and I went for a walk on boxing day to the Abbey, it was where the Monks used to live until they got slaughtered by Oliver Cromwell and his army of anti-royalists. The Monks initially hide in the woods surrounding the abbey, the anti-royalists passed through thinking it was unoccupied. Then some idiot monk decided that it would be a good idea to ring the abbey bells in celebration that the anti-royalists had not found them. Nice one Einstein, the anti-royalists heard the bells and came back. I travelled back to London on Wednesday, worked Thursday and Friday and then decided that instead of staying in London for New Years by myself I would go back up to Barrow. My flatmates were going with friends of there’s up to Edinburgh, so on the Saturday morning
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