Bye bye summer

It would seem that summer has gone. After a week or so of really nice weather for September we finally got back to some traditional Welsh weather yesterday. Yes it's raining again :( Boo! It seemed like one day it was lovely and sunny, we woke up to sun streaming through the curtains and had nice long sunny evenings then today all of a sudden it was dark when I got out of bed, I needed the light on in the bathroom and I've had to dig out a hat and scarf. No gradual change. Boom - it's autumn! On the upside though it's a good excuse to get more knitting done :)

Back in action!

I did it! After the aforementioned 6 weeks of hard graft I finally finished the thesis :) So no excuse to not keep up with my blogging now. If I had kept up with it over the last 6 weeks it would have been very boring and read something like this:

Thursday: Went to work, got home, went to office and worked on thesis, slept.
Friday: As Thursday
Saturday: Went to work, watched X-factor, slept
Sunday: As Thursday
etc...

so it's probably for the good of everyone that I didn't bother. I've already been chastised by my friend Helen for not writing often enough so I'll have to put that right now.

Speaking of Helen, her and her hubby Richard came to stay with us for a few nights this weekend just gone. We had a lovely meal at the Bull at Beaumaris on Saturday night (although the wait between starters and main course was way too long!) and on Sunday night Ben cooked us all a lovely meal - roast dinner with chocolate pudding for dessert. Yum!!! Helen and Richard checked out Conwy during the day on Sunday and gave very good reports so I might have to try that one myself.

The students of Bangor University arrived back this week and the town immediately feels more buzzy. It's certainly helping sales on the shoe department! Is it wrong of me to convince them to spend their loan cheques on shoes before it all goes on boring stuff like rent and books? ;)