Tag: Christmas
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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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Some Post-Christmas Photos
There’s not much to say about the last few days, I don’t think. I read a lot, in a variety of locations. I wrote a bit, because my creative brain seems to be slowing coming back on-line. I enjoyed being in a very different place, and I wandered down streets just to see where they…
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Christmas in Chiang Mai
Mostly, just a regular day in Chiang Mai, though I did sleep in & have some somewhat festive biscuits for breakfast. I say somewhat because there’s a limit to how Christmassy a box of shortbread-adjacent snacks from the slightly larger convenience store can really be. Had a nice breakfast at the Travellers Arms, which appears…
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Moving Day
A month or so back, I booked a hotel over the Christmas period, because I wanted to be sure to have somewhere nice to stay, and because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Christmas this year; A lot has happened in 2024, and I thought there was a chance I’d just…