Author: Craig
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Training ‘Home’ for Christmas
With apologies to the late Chris Rea. Checked out of the hotel at dawn, having packed up the night before, and trundled my way to the station. Hadn’t really wanted to still be in temporary accommodation after over a month at the job, but getting Stafford landlords to actually respond to their own adverts was…
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So, It’s Been Raining A Bit
Part of me wants to think that this is a boat ramp for canoes or similar, but … I think I’m wrong. When I first saw this, from a carpark, I thought that maybe the stripmall bordered on an ornamental lake. Technically, I suppose, that’s now accurate. Impressed with how hard that one sandbag is…
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I Think Spotify Thinks I’m Having A Breakdown
I got the yearly “this is what you listened to this year” report from Spotify, and because I’m easily amused, I grabbed images of the bits which entertained or terrified me.
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The Wedding
There won’t be many pictures in this post, because it’s not really my place to be publicly sharing wedding photos, especially not before the married couple get to do so. When I was first asked to be a part of the thing, sometime in the middle of last year, I was asked to be an…
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Scenes From A Stag Do
In hindsight, I’d have done the ‘weekend’ a bit differently; Taken the train in the morning to have more time to hang out with folks. Friday The event was Alex’s stag/bachelor weekend, which he organised himself, so there was a lot of cricket involved, starting with day three of a match at a stadium in…
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Chicago to Dublin to London to Aylesbury
It’s a long & exhausting trip, and it’s not getting any easier. The Indy to Dublin route opened after I booked, or I’d have at least tried that, to take out an airport and some time. For some reason, the host/server at the hotel restaurant was singing Julio Iglecias (?) songs to himself, and seemed…
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Chicago
Mostly photos in this one. In hindsight, I maybe could have spent more time in Anderson, making a slightly longer weekend of it, but I didn’t think of that until far too late. This is the downside of a plan which was sort of bodged together as events changed & kept changing. Had an evening…
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A Weekend In Indiana
While in Michigan I got to try a s’more, and had conversations about the appropriate sizing of marshmallow to cracker, which led on to conversations about making tiny little s’mores using those mini-marshmallows, if you could find the appropriate size of cracker. Which it turns out SouthWest have already done. It was a double flight…
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Seattle Moving Day
Well, moving from Hotel to Hostel. It’s sort of a moving day. The hotel wasn’t in a great area, I think? The area about a block away towards the conference centre seemed worse, just from the number of clearly drugged-up people seen & count of meth pipes in use. I didn’t feel particularly unsafe, I’d…