Category: Don’t Forget To Breathe

What? It scans. First, the basics. Inverness is cold. Bloody freezing, in fact, when the wind’s blowing, but it’s OK, because the houses are built for it, and have heating. At least, that’s what we thought. Turns out that this place is being run … cheaply, so the heating isn’t turned on all of the…

I’d hoped that my National Insurance Number would make it to the hostel while I was still there, but as time went on it started looking less and less likely, so I made some alternate plans to leave a forwarding address for the blasted thing. I’m told that the situation can be be both better and…

This post brought to you by Oh Hiroshima’s album “In Silence We Yearn” It’s been a while, so I figured it was time for an update, even though there’s not a huge amount to tell. I had my NiNo interview, for the magical number which allows you to pay tax and access medical care, sometime…

This is another one of them there consolidated update posts. Just so’s you know. First up, a few photos which didn’t make it into the last post, but which I quite liked. Greenwich looking all sparkly, Greenwich is crawling with markets – There’s the big mostly covered one which takes up the inside of a…

I couldn’t think of another ‘R’ word, OK? Don’t make this weird. Remember that strong onshore wind I mentioned in the previous post? Yeah, well it came with some strong on-land rain in places other than Penzance. I’d caught the 10am to London Paddington, and things were fine for a while, though we did have…

This one’s a wrap-up of the Penzance Experience, mostly in the form of things I photographed because I thought they were interesting at the time. Things like the shopfront on the uphill side of Market Jew Street, which is somewhat higher than the road. I’m assuming that this is because it’s on a hill, and shopkeepers…

You can’t go to Cornwall without going to Land’s End. That’s … just how it works. So I took a bus. Double-deckers, it turns out, give an excellent view, but magnify the sway on narrow country lanes. That guy on the left isn’t just resting his hand there; You did need to hang on. As…

OK,so the first thing is that Mousehole isn’t pronounced like the thing mice live in. It’s closer to Mowzel, where it’s ‘ow’ in the I Just Dropped Something On My Foot way of saying it; Only found that out after the fact. I hopped a little bus from Penzance to Mousehole. At the time I…

Me being me, I got to the station far too early. This, I’m sure, comes as no surprise to anyone. I tried to be as quiet as possible getting showered and moving out, and hopefully was successful, though all of the other inhabitants of the room arriving back at midnight did reduce how concerned I…

This one’s in a few sections – it covers some time in London, a trip to Essex, and then back to London I still haven’t done a review of the B&B I stayed in, primarily because I’m not sure how to write it. There’s nothing wrong with the place, it’s just that it’s been overtaken…