After a tiring but fabulously fun week of school visits the final two days began with a slightly confusing drive which, thanks to the wonders of sat-nav, took us on a magical mystery tour round the centre of Brighton to a school that turned out to be only 100 yards from our hotel. Once we’d reached St Paul’s (possibly via Inverness) we set up for…
Day three began with a muffin (tasty) and the Bookmobile almost getting trapped in an underground car park due to a faulty exit gate (less enjoyable). Thankfully Beth managed to negotiate our release with a disembodied voice on an intercom or else I may have had to conduct my first ever school visit over a phone from a car park. Once we had a taste…
Day two and the sun was shining as we skipped and danced like carefree children from our hotel to the Bookmobile. Okay, that’s only half true. I’m not a “morning person” and as a flabby 40-year-old I’d probably do myself a mischief if I tried to skip or dance anywhere. But it was definitely sunny, which was something of a relief as ever since we…
It’s a long way from Fife to Brighton – 380 miles as the crow flies. Unfortunately we weren’t travelling by crow, we were travelling by people carrier, so it was closer to 515 miles. The other problem with non-crow based transport is that someone has to drive. Thankfully – for me at least – I wasn’t allowed behind the wheel (they said it was for…
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