I left you last at the beginning of Folk week which was on the 29th of July. In the evening of the 29th I went out with friends for the first night of Folk week. It was also my day off as I get Fridays off every week. There were already so many people in my town that night! The day before I had just bought a new camera and yes I took photos on Friday :).
Here are a few.
I tried Pimms for my first time which is a really nice drink if you haven't had it before. It was so good it had lemonade and fruit in it too.
On the 30th of July some friends came to visit me and we had a good afternoon walking around and seeing some of the festival and of course taking pictures.
Even by the 31st I was starting to have withdrawals from being on my laptop. Actually people teased me a lot when my laptop wasn't working saying how will you survive so I did milk it a bit when it was gone ;)! You probably saw my facebook statuses like I was dying and my laptop is like oxygen to me and I can't live without it and whatever. I thought if I am going to write about missing my laptop, I am going to do it properly haha. So I had a bit of fun with that. In fact it was also a nice break not to have a computer and I had a good time doing other things.
On the 2nd of August as I was walking around my town I'd never seen so many people. It almost seemed as busy as Exeter. It made a nice change for the week of Folk week. I was looking around at the people in amusement - who knew my town would be the place to be.
I expected to get my laptop back on the 4th of August but it was only going to be delivered on the 7th. It wasn't that I couldn't live without my computer for a while but it was a problem for me because I had important things to do on there that week and the fact that it was delayed even more delayed everything I needed to do. The week it stopped working was the week I was going to do something I'd wanted to do for a long time so it wasn't the not having a laptop that bothered me, it was that I had spilt coffee on it the week I needed it the most. I still haven't done the main thing I want to do on there but I will :).
On the 3rd of August in the evening after work they played drums in the Market Square for the festival and oh my word they were - AMAZING! I did video a lot of it and I will be posting the videos but even the videos don't do it justice. It was so awesome! It even started raining near the end of their show and everyone just stood in the rain and listened we didn't even care about the rain. Folk week was the best atmosphere I have seen in the Uk.
On the 4th of August I walked all the way to Lidl's in Sidmouth. I'd never walked that far down and I've lived here since September last year. It actually was quite amusing in the end because I walked to the furthest store and bought the heaviest things and then I had to walk all the way back. Let's just say my arms got a really good work out that day haha. I enjoyed the view so much as I was walking and seeing the hills and the park, Sidmouth is such a beautiful area.
On the 5th of August was the last day of the Folk week festival. It was such an awesome festival and it ended with a bang - Fireworks! They also had a parade down the sea front and closed off the road there. The parade was awesome! I have pics of course. All of us at the hotel went out for the end of Folk week. I also had a haircut earlier, well just a trim and that's a bit of a funny story. I got my hair washed and the hairdresser put my hair up with a towel and gave me one of those robes and sat me town then she went to get me some tea. By the time she came back my hair was out the towel on my lap and I was fiddling with my robe trying to put it back on - I had unraveled everything. Don't ask how it's just a Nicola moment I am unexplainable sometimes haha. I was thinking oh no but hey that's me I told you before I am a walking disaster lol.
Here are some pics of the last night of the festival.
This is the best picture I took from the parade - I caught her just in time.
We were going to get a pic of us with the fireworks in the background but it was hard to catch the fireworks and this was the first picture and that tiny dot in the sky is a bit of a firework haha.
And so Sidmouth Folk Week festival was over and what an incredible festival it was! If you missed it, you missed a lot, it was so cool! The atmosphere was fantastic and the music and dancing and everything was brilliant! It was a good week but also busier for us at work. On the 6th of August the day after it was straight back to the peaceful Sidmouth I know.
I love writing and I was feeling writing withdrawals most of all and on the 7th I finally got my laptop back. It had been two weeks since I had had a computer. Also my laptop is my connection to most of my friends and family around the world who are not here with me so I felt very disconnected from everyone while it was getting repaired and I am the kind of person that likes to be in touch with people. Although since I have had it back I haven't actually spent much time at the computer and I've actually been out quite a bit.
I really made a big thing of not having my laptop, most of it being my sense of humour, I even told the staff here I was on a date with my laptop because now I sit in the staff room a lot because I get better wifi-signal and they all see me in the staff room. Haha yes Nicola and her computers. I have always been a techno-geek with laptops, ipods, mobile phones, cameras - you name it, I like it.
I found this song again I like by Natalie Grant, I think I have posted it on one of my blog posts before. I like how it emphasises the fact that we all are human. It's true no matter what our background is we are ALL God's children and we should treat each other like brothers and sisters in Christ.
We gotta do better than this 'cause we only got
One life that we've been given
A little love, a little kindness
A little light in this time of darkness
It'll be what makes us different
It'll be what makes us human
I'm human, you're human, we are human
I always have a song of the day on facebook, well on some days I do and this was one of them this week that someone showed me.
On Tuesday I heard about the riots in the Uk. So much violence and fires and looting and all sorts. I am on the coast so although we live in the Uk it doesn't really affect us, it's like a different world down here. I can't really say much about the riots I heard about things on facebook and watched a tiny bit of the news but I haven't seen much since then so I can't really say more.
I also got the night off work on Tuesday and went to visit Exmouth to see a friend. It was my first time going to Exmouth during the day because my first time there I'd been there at night for dinner. Yes there are pics.
On the beach in Exmouth.
We had mussels for dinner which were sooo awesome! Really tasty!
On Wednesday the 10th of August it was exactly one week until my trip :)! In the evening I went and watched Cars 2 in 3D with a friend at the cinema in Sidmouth because I got the night off work again.
Yesterday I worked in the morning and then I spent most of the day relaxing and writing because it was my half day. I work until lunchtime on Thursday then I get the rest of the day off and I get the whole day on Friday off every week.
Today I went to Exeter to do some shopping for my trip. I wanted to buy a suitcase and I'd seen one a couple of weeks ago there at a store but when I went to get it, it was out of stock. As I was standing outside I saw a stand that sells suitcases and one looked almost exactly like the suitcase I used to have. I was so happy that I found one and it just shows how God comes through for you because I was praying I'd find a suitcase on time and I wasn't sure what to do when the one I wanted wasn't there. When there is no plan God always makes a plan. So I got a nice new suitcase and it's only 5 days to go :)))!
I shall love and leave you with this news, love hearing your news too,
Keep in touch,
Stay cool,
Love Nicola
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