Author: Craig

  • Summing Up Canterbury

    I’m trying to combine a round-up of all of the other bits of Canterbury, plus some sort of round-up of how the working process went. Let’s see how this goes, shall we? The Roman MuseumDid this on on the Sunday, partially by accident because while I’d planned to go to it, I was just out…

  • A Few Days Of Work

    The hopefully none of you who’ve been paying attention to the dates of these posts may have noticed that I’ve worked from Canterbury for five days & haven’t said a damn thing about how it went. This is for deep & compelling reasons; I wasn’t sure how to make it interesting. Having given up on…

  • A Canterbury Tale?

    A Canterbury Tale?

    OK, that was weak, even by my standards. I am, of course, talking about Canterbury Cathedral, which turns out to be tricky to photograph, at least with a smartphone. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’d been told the entry price ( still not sure I understand how that works for a functioning cathedral…

  • The Traveler’s Tale

    I’m expecting to go through a few iterations of the packing scheme before I get it right. Today’s version had the everyday clothing in the low compartment, the stuff I thought I’d need as soon into a hotel room in the very top compartment, and everything else in the middle, as a sort of protection…

  • Breakfast At Wetherspoons

    Had pre-work breakfast with many of the crowd from last night. The enthusiasm for a pre-work pint had faded, which is, I think, no bad thing. Does it make me a bad person if I want to see what an actual American would think of the Spoons ‘American Breakfast ‘? Pretty sure it does. Maybe…

  • Day Two – The Rockwood & The Rain

    The traveling kit, version one, is about as packed as it’s going to get. I suspect I’ve got too much electronic stuff, or packed it badly, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m still figuring out how best to distribute things between the three compartments, but I remember that changing multiple times over the course…

  • Day One – Pancakes & New Shoes

    Slept ok. Better than the admittedly terrible idea of a night on the floor, but I kept waking up from dreams about cleaning, or with a panicked thought that I’d forgotten to clean something or clear out something. I figure that I’ll have plenty of time for hotel breakfast buffets over the course of this…

  • Day Zero: Moving Out, Moving On, Moving Slowly & Painfully

    Day Zero: Moving Out, Moving On, Moving Slowly & Painfully

    ( posting this from day one, but let’s not get too concerned about that, shall we ) The last of the furniture went away on day -1, and I’m already regretting this numbering system. I’m also somewhat regretting my decision to make a bed on the floor for the last night; I slept ok, and…

  • 10/8 – Trying To Stay Awake

    10/8 – Trying To Stay Awake

    Our story resumes with me killing time in the early morning at Dublin Airport, waiting on the last of three flights. There was some sort of … I’m not sure what … during priority boarding where a couple of folks ( one of whom was loud & deaf ) seemed to be trying to get…

  • 9/8 – Long Way “Home”

    9/8 – Long Way “Home”

    Woke up during the early morning to see a thunderstorm outside. (not a lot of point in closing the curtains when you’re on the 30th floor, and it’s nice to wake to the sunrise. Decided to skip hotel breakfast today, in favour of sleeping in a bit & getting to the airport in plenty of…