Back in Birmingham

I'm back from our road trip, as I wimped out to avoid the 11 hour round-trip ride to Scotland which Chris and his parents embarked on this morning. The timing actually worked out quite well however as our fridge stopped working today. I can only imagine the smell and mess we would have come back to late Monday night if we had all gone. Turned out to be a cracked plug, which our landlord quickly and easily replaced. I know nothing about electronics but it doesn't seem as though that would be possible in the U.S. The plugs here are very strange. He simply took a screwdriver to the plug and removed the cracked portion which was keeping it from staying plugged in.

Our landlord, actually it's a young couple (mid 30s maybe?) named Jim and Stella, are really nice and incredibly responsive to any problems that we have. Jim is always full of energy and has crazy hair that sticks out in every direction...but in a way that you can tell he's done it on purpose. He's a cameraman for one of the BBC channels and a very interesting guy. We don't know his girlfriend Stella as well, but she did bring us a bottle of wine as a Christmas gift, so we like her :)