My charming spouse and I went up to Birmingham and this is the only picture I took the entire weekend so I thought I'd better share it with the world. I have only a vague notion of where it is. We were on a bus to Wolverhampton when I took it. And we were on that bus for a very long time. A word to the wise -- the bus from Birmingham to Wolverhampton takes an hour and fifteen minutes and costs £1. The train takes 20 minutes and costs £3.60. Take the train. It's worth the extra £2.60.
Vicki had been doing some part-time work for the dance department of the University of Wolverhampton. We were going up there to see the student show. I love seeing student shows. You get to meet the performers during the intermission and everyone is so excited, especially the audience.
I'm glad we went, because a few days later they offered her a permanent job, only half-time for now, as a lecturer at the UofW. It was good to meet some of the folks she'll be working with and a couple of the students she'll be teaching.
I went on that before our xmas do and I must say it's the most shaky and cold ferris wheel I have ever had the misfortune to ride. Stick witht he nice warm london eye!
Well done Vicki!
We were just up in Birmingham again finding somewhere for Vicki to live and we went for a ride on this wheel. I wouldn't say it was shaky, but it was very cold and there was a brutal wind. And it tended to swing back and forth a lot in the wind. However, it was also kind of cool that it was the same Ferris Wheel that we saw in Paris a couple of years ago. What goes through the mind of a ferris wheel that causes it to move to Birmingham from Paris, the City of Light. It's a damn crazy ferris wheel, if you ask me.