That loving feeling...

I'm sitting at my computer chair and very oddly I'm facing a different way from my computer screen. But there is a reason, I have my gorgeous girlfriend falling asleep in my bed next to me, so the kind considerate boyfriend that I am, I'm using her laptop rather than my old steam engine of a 'personal computer'.
Of which I am usually slaving at while writing my most inner feelings as I pollute the world with soot and hamster droppings from the ancient machine.

Anyhoo... Yesterday morning Claire turned up at my house just as I was getting into the shower, Anyway a few hours later I was ready and we were on our way to Walsham. After collecting the key we headed of to the Church, I was less excited by our mission than I had previously been, but once in the church, my excitement grew. You will all, every single one of you in unison say "Right..." when I tell what we went to do but I found it bloody interesting. Claire has set herself a sort of challenge in finding out about these group of people who rang one of the first recorded peals in Walsham church. In the tower of the church, up the stairs in the belfry around the windows, all over the place, ringers have carved or written there names. So we were recoding the names and dates trying to find some matches to the first ringers. We had names from as early as 1627, now that's old, so being a history student that is why I got excited. After recording a lot of the names we sneaked up onto the roof of the tower, and what an awesome sight. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and so you could see for miles... Me and Claire planned to come back... as we didn't get time to finish recording the names...

After leaving the church we rushed of to Ixworth for me to renew some massively overdue books and to have a spot of lunch. I can highly recommend the cafe on the high street, just the cakes were a little over priced. After a very relaxing sit in the sun having a quite chat over bacon sarnies and vanilla milkshakes we headed back to Walsham to pick up all of Claire textiles stuff as she would be staying at mine for the next few days and had a mountain of work to do like me, but she unlike me has the drive to do it.

In the evening we walked down the road to the Bull to finally have a meal, as the last two times we haven't been able to. It was really nice actually, just us in there all night and Franky waitoring on us which was quite comical. We just sat and chatted all evening, about a lot of things but sadly we got talking about our pasts... Claire learned some things about me and I learned some things about her... I really wished we'd not got onto the topic but as we had I wanted to know more things. Learning about the past didn't bother me that much, it was just talking about the one person that always gets me... So we both left the pub in thoughtful moods...

We got up very late today, but even though we had plans the day sort of fell apart and we haven't left the house all day. We had planned to go to the beach with JJ and everyone for his party but the leaving time moved from 2 to 4 which meant there wouldn't be much of the sun left to enjoy once we we're there. Claire was feeling a bit under the weather and we both had work to do, her a textile project and me a load of reading for my history project. So in the end we just stayed in trying to make the best of being stuck inside in the hot weather. The highlight of today was probably watching TopGun before we came to bed. So all in all not a fantastic day but hey we were together...

I can't leave without saying something about how beautiful a peaceful she looks asleep in my bed... Shame I can't watch her all night... I really did miss her while she was away... Don't know what'll happen next year...

I'm going to join Claire in bed know and try to get some shut eye...