Timetable of last 2 days:
11pm the previous day, BST(1am am greek time ): got 'home' to greek apartments from sardine festival
6.30am BST (8.30am greek time )got up and started packing
8am BST (10am greek time) was out of greek room. all things moved to kim and mike's room temporarily
about 12.00 Midday BST (2pm greek time) swimming in agean sea
2.30pm BST (4.30 Greek time) Back in appartments ready to go
3pm BST (5pm Greek time) bus to airport left polychronos holiday resort, with me charl bod and bryony on
about 5.15 BST (7.15 Greek time) arrived in thesaloniki airport
5.45 BST (7.45 greek time) had moved 1.5 metres to the left whist queueing to have luggage checked
between 6 and 7pm BST (8 and 9 pm greek time) overdosed on free duty free chocolate and perfume (including 'pure poison' - hooray for french adverts! charl on britney spears' perfume and edward on barbie. hah. in ya face)
7.30 BST (9.30 greek time) boarded airoplane whilst practicing sumerset accent
between 7.30 and 11pm bst(9.30pm-1am greek time) sat or airoplane, watched cities be small, worried about deep vein thrombosis, watched 'millions' pretended to revise for saxophone exam. got slept on by charlotte. got frightenerd by takeoff and landing.
by 11.30BST (1.30am greece) were watching luggage carousel and telling edward to shuttup his face. watching man with barcode tatoo on neck. by now thoroughly sick of perfume.
by 12.10 BST (2.10am greece) had left airport
sometime around 2am BST charl has to stop to try to sleep a bit
not long before 4am hear editors on radio 1
around 4am got home - mum who has been house sitting coincidentally just got up for water. comment on coincidence
before 5am went to sleep
9am got up again
9.06am pphoned mr watkins
between 9.10am and 10.35am generally panicked (quietly) about saxophone exam
11.am arrived in school and practiced sax piece with mr w.
11.30 left school for tycroes primary school, situated somewhere in wales
12.30ish arrived at said school
between 12.30 and 02.10 hung around and silently got nervouser
2.10 to 2.30 pm on tuesday july the 19th PASSED GRADE 8 SAXOPHONE!
2.31 went back to llandovery
home by 5pm
about 7pm found out I had passed grade 8 saxophone
7.01pm was very chuffed
9pm phoned sax teacher, discovered I wasn't far off a merit
was chuffed some more.
1.am BST 20th july (3am greek time) wrote about it.
for once I am proud and proud of it. I have passed grade 8 alto saxophone! one of those 'never to be got' things. with a little help from a nice examiner I do believe.
Missed y'all terribly whilst away - thousands of miles seems such a long way.
1.05am - fell asleep at keboard.
(hope to see you all reallly soon. we may need help watching the house at some point. and maybe any alcohol that may be brougt by the house sitters might need to be kept in check too. that is if we can be bothered to organise it all.)