Day 28 - Addicted to UK geography
If I wasn't in England I'd be going crazy right now, because I've developed an addiction to UK geography. I already posted about my fascination for Wales. But even within England there are so many unique regions, each with different personalities and accents, as well as differences in topography, vegetation, climate, etc. Here's a map of where I've been so far. As you can see, I have the south and west of England pretty well covered.
(map courtesy of Google)
As you can see, I've barely touched the north and east. Today I met a former Reading student from the East Midlands (an unexplored region that I knew nothing about) who has already given me a lot of very interesting insight into the East Midlands and other parts of England. She said she likes answering my questions about England, but we'll see if that remains true after the millionth question. If there are very many more people here who like to talk about these things, I may have a hard time getting any work done.
But just to prove that I actually did get some work done today.. I finished the RUF Fall Conference brochure. Well, most of it anyway - still waiting for confirmation on the inside pages. Here's the cover (right) and back (left). I spent a lot more time on it than I planned, but it was fun so I didn't mind.
2 Comments:
Like I told ya before, I so wanna go to the UK. I always wanted to go but even more so after we discovered a lot about my genealogy.
< boring genealogy talk >
Antrim, Northern Ireland was where my I *think* 4th or 5th great grandpa came from. Shelton, England was named after my ancestors. And I am royalty after all (but then I bet half of England is!). We split off of the royal line after King Edward I's daughter Elisabeth Plantaganet. I got this book on the Royal family and there's a young picture of Queen Elizabeth II in it. It's scary how much I look like her in that picture. Also another line of my family came from near the White Cliffs of Dover.
< /boring talk >
The RUF think looks good. Makes me even more in the mood for fall.
THING not THINK. LOL
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