If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Seven hours, it took, to plan September’s trip. From the end of a late breakfast that drew to a close at noon to the time I started to rumble and think about dinner, clicking forwards and backwards on the […]

How glad am I that that week is over? I’m fried. Chris brought in donuts to celebrate the end of the week and the sugar overload induced by eating two and a half of them - iced - did strange things to my mind.
I commissioned someone to write 400 pages. I meant 400 words. 400 […]

When it happened in New York just three weeks ago they warned the same could happen here. And it did. Today.
270 sets of traffic lights blink out. 250,000 people stranded. 1,000 trains stopped in/on their tracks. 400 calls to the fire brigade to free people trapped in lifts.
Kathryn called at half six. I was still […]

There are three landmarks on the London skyline.
If I’d said that a century ago, they would have been Tower Bridge, the Tower of London and St Paul’s. Today it’s Canary Wharf in the east, the BT Tower in the west end, and Tower 42 in the city.
I’ve done BT Tower before, from which you get […]

Ugh! What a hideous day. First one back after a holiday and a bank holiday Monday. It was inevitable really, wasn’t it. So, problem solving and firefighting from start to end. And delays on the trains, of course - I’d almost forgotten the trains run late.
I’ve brought home 80-odd pages of proofs that need reading […]

Oscar was perfectly behaved. He always is, I guess, but I was impressed that he let me sleep until the alarm went off at ten. I needed the rest. I was up until two this morning filling in forms that need posting, and sorting out the washing from holiday. All the time, he was miowing, […]

I was right - it did feel good to sleep in a bed last night. The hard matteress felt so wonderfully soft after a roll mat on the floor of a tent. It was wonderful to be able top pull a duvet up around my neck rather than lay with the open end of a […]

It will be good to sleep in a bed tonight. It’s been good to spend a week away from it. We made Wales in four hours, crossing the border some time around threeish on Monday. The names were all pretty familiar, and after a short stop at Swallow Falls (disappointing from lack of rainfall) we […]

Yesterday morning. 08h00: get up. 09h30: vet, to give the cat its booster jabs. She was very well behaved and endured three needles, a general poking around, an inspection of her back legs and a weighing before she crept back into her carry box and sat, curled tight, on the blanket at the back. All […]

Wooo - last day in the office before a week on holiday. And what a strange day. Clive’s birthday presentation, and Emilie’s leaving speech and gift back-to-back. It felt quite momentous, even though they’ll both still be working in the same office this time next week.
Still, it’s always nice to give presents.
I worked late, as […]