Just a week to go and the Swallows met in Gateshead this morning to talk about the arrangments for our trip next week. Here we all are at Gateshead Old Town Hall where Ann is based (Left to right - Laurayne, Ann, Mark).
The Premier and her party arrive in the Region tomorrow and we are due to meet them all on Saturday at the Library in Gateshead for a presentation and a chance to talk about our plans.
On Saturday night we are all looking forward to sitting down at the Theatre Royal to watch "Elephant". I am hoping that we get to see just a few of the real thing when we reach Africa and I know that I am not the only one. We are all looking forward to the experience so much.
This week has been very busy. The schools have gone back and there is much more traffic on the roads. We have had some very windy weather and this has caused quite a few problems round the country. In Newcastle yesterday, the main roads across the Tyne were badly affected. Of the three available bridges, two were out of action and the other is not a particularly easy route for traffic, so it was chaos. To end the day well, in the early hours of this morning, parts of the UK including the North East felt an earthquake which was of quite a significant magnitude. A number of people at work felt this and some were even woken by it. It's rare to get this in England and a quake of 5 on the Richter scale is unheard of.
So, this time next week, we will be en route for Dubai and our onward flight to Johannesburg.
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