Jess and Ray's Interesting Ways to Spend the Lazy Summer Days

Picture the scene. It is technically summer, although there hasn't actually been a lot of sun, and you are in the prime of your life. Apparently. You are in the middle of what is to become one of the longest 'gap year' periods ever known, having been to university and dropped out of university twice in the last two years. Your best friend, a rather more motivated learner, has just graduated with a degree in English Literature and Human Rights, and you've both been told by countless people that the world is your oyster.

For both of you, this could be your last summer of freedom before you have to grow up, think maybe about getting some sort of serious job and join the real world, although in your case probably not. In the immortal words of Homer Simpson 'oh yeah? What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?'

Well, actually what we're gonna do, is find things to do. Interesting, local ways to fill our time during the week, funded by a) my slightly pathetic saturday job and b) the remainder of Ray's student loan. Ray spent her last semester at home with a broken ankle, and therefore (check out the silver lining) didnt spend any money.

To paraphrase a popular S Club 7 song, imagination is the key. The key to your own destiny.

Welcome to Jess and Ray's Interesting Ways to Spend the Lazy Summer Days.