No further letters directly on the Morley Together business this week, although a few political slants.
The candidate list has been published for the Leeds Council Morley Wards:
Morley North:
ALDISS JASON KARL THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY CANDIDATE
GETTINGS BOB MORLEY BOROUGH INDEPENDENTS
LOVELL CHRISTOPHER JOHN LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
MCARDLE STEWART INDEPENDENT
MULLEN PAUL IAN THE LABOUR PARTY CANDIDATE
REDMOND TOM BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
Morley South:
GRAYSHON TERRENCE MORLEY BOROUGH INDEPENDENTS
JAMIESON KEELY JOANNE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY CANDIDATE
LANGHAM DAVID PETER THE LABOUR PARTY CANDIDATE
MEE MIKE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
SADDLER JAMIE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
SLINGSBY CHARLES ALBERT INDEPENDENT
Town Council nominations aren’t posted online yet.
The first election leaflet through my door is from Mike Mee, BNP Candidate.
Mini-cruising isn’t quite the delight it sounds. The food and drinks onboard are rather expensive (£14 for burger & chips, £8 for a breakfast buffet, £3 for a half litre of Lager). The entertainment is so-so and time crawls round the clocks. I managed to finish two books though!
Here was our schedule.
TUESDAY
4:30pm- latest recommended arrival at South Shields Ferry terminal.
6:00pm Boarding starts- Searches, X Rays etc.
7:30pm- Departure- 1 hour late due to “extensive embarkation procedures”
They play “Anchors aweigh” through the ship’s PA.
Sleep in the cabin on narrow bed- pitching, yawing and creaking. Ship on Norwegian time (+1 hour)
WEDNESDAY
3pm Arrival Stavanger- Departure 4pm
6pm Arrival Haugesund- Departure 6:30pm
11pm Arrival Bergen.
Everybody off the boat- through passport control and customs, then back into the lounge and re-boarding before midnight. Cabin delightfully stationary.
THURSDAY
Up at 8am, breakfast planned for McDonalds onshore, but found to be closed until 11am. Breakfast at 7/11 instead. (Coffee & DoNuts).
Return to ship 3:30ish. Board at about 4:15pm. Letters on bunks- only 3 engines, arrival everywhere will be late.
5pm Departure. Anchors Aweigh.
9:30pm Arrival Haugesund. Departure 22:00 (Anchors Aweigh, loud & long bi-lingual safety announcement in all cabins. noisy drunken neighbours in cabin next door, Cabin pitching, yawing and creaing again).
FRIDAY
00:30am Arrival Stavanger. Depart 01:30am- mostly managed to sleep through the safety announcement. I didn’t notice if they played anchors aweigh that time.
Back to UK time (not that I bothered to change my watch, little englander that I am- or it might be that I don’t know how to, it being radio controlled and all).
8pm Arrival at South Shields. Back on time, as they managed to make up the delay after originally forecasting 10pm.
The ship has three decks of public space but no lounges as such, just bars, a club room, restaurants, cafes & shops. It also seemed to have rather a surplus of expensive up-market restaurants- they probably would have taken more revenue (and satisfied more customers) with a large McDonalds.
(You need to hum Edvard Grieg’s Dovregubbens Hall from Peer Gynt, or go here)
Bergen tourist office- in a former banking hall.
The Bryggen Christmas shop…
…with a troll section.
David gets caught by the big troll!
Snakker du Norsk? (Do you speak Norwegian?)
Ya, Yeg Snakker Litt Norsk (Yes, I speak a little Norwegian)
Lesson 1. Essential Vocabulary
Reise- Trip, travel, voyage, journey
Syke- Sickness
Pose- Bag
The Hotel…
Hats with sewn-in pigtails…
David thought the Penguin costume was rubbish…
Higgledy-piggledy house…
It might have been cold but it could have been a lot worse…
I never expected that…
