I’ve just had a rather exciting sort of weekend That is to say, Saturday was a rather quiet day which I mostly spent trying to tidy the mound of papers in my room and decipher the opening chapters of Gunther Grass’ “The Tin Drum” in Esperanto. But Sunday my boyfriend came to pick me up in his car and we went to Twycross Zoo for the afternoon

It was actually a bit of a risk going, because the weather seemed to be so appalling bad all Saturday. Sunday dawned a bit brighter, and I managed not to get rained on when I went to Mass in the morning, but there was a high potential for showers. As we drove towards Twycross on the M42 we were engulfed by a particularly vicious shower, and I don’t know how my boyfriend managed to keep the car on the road, because I could barely see it. Luckily it was just about lunchtime, and so we stopped at a fairly pleasant pub in Appleby Magna and I had lasagne and some rather tasty chips. (more…)