Tag: Work

  • Ten Days In Aberdeen

    Ten Days In Aberdeen

    Folks at work have referred to my travels as a tour of Dying British Seaside Towns, and they maybe have a point. Bournemouth clearly has had better days, and Blackpool is less ‘faded glory’ and more ‘decaying remnants’, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Aberdeen isn’t the crumbling industrial wasteland it was described…

  • Back In Aylesbury, Side Trip To Oxford

    When we last spoke, I was leaving Bath & heading back towards Aylesbury on an unevenly-packed train, in what turned out to be a wildly uneventful journey. Most of the reason for a return to Aylesbury is to see friends, though the specific timing is because of a work Company Update in Oxford. ( They’re…

  • Bath – Sunday to Friday

    The trip here was uneventful, but mostly because I boarded the train as soon as I could & got a seat. Not everyone did, because it was full of folks going to Penzance whose train was supposed to be leaving from Paddington, but was instead leaving from Reading. I don’t know why. Anyway, I had…

  • Greenwich Friday, Saturday, Sunday

    Back to the Geovation hub to work today, even though I (correctly) expected it to be deader than yesterday. I stopped off at the coffee place from yesterday ( Goswell Road Coffee ) and hung around in there for a bit. They may be winning the “weird decorating” prize. The hub was, as predicted, dead.…

  • 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…

  • 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…