Another quiet week, maybe I will have something interesting to write someday, in the mean time I suppose that this blog will tell people in 1000 years just how tedious life could be in the earlu 2000's
Monday was georgeous, we had deep (4-6 inches, so deep to me) snow, living in the south of England I do not see snow that often, and was amazed at how beautiful it made everything appear. As usual I set off for work at 7 (I always aim to leave at 6:30, however I rarely manage this). I drive on main roads once I get out of my estate, so I was expecting the roads to be fairly clear, however they were ungritted, so I (and all the other fools on the road, and there were not that many of us) was pootling along very slowly in the middle of the two lanes going in my direction. The drive was slow, but very pretty. I found my first gritter/plough as I was waiting in traffic and it blew snow in through my car window :-( All in all it took over two hours to get into work (Normally one hour or so) and I was one of eleven people who made it in! The gritters and ploughs had been out by the time I drove home, and it was the quickest trip home I have ever had.
The forecasts have been threatening snow ever since, however we have hardly seem any.
I have a Vauxhall (Opel) Corsa R registration (11 years old)
Anyway I was driving into work on Wednesday at about 07:20 and one of my rear tyres blew. Having grown up on Hollywood I would have expected much excitement, however in reality the car drove perfectly well, albeit with a most unpleasant sound, being the idiot/lazy fatherless child that I am I drove about 5 miles to get to a tyre place. I know that this was a seriously stupid thing to do, however in my defence I will say that the safest place to pull over was about 4 1/2 miles away.
No weight lost this week, but I am OK with that.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Monday, 2 February 2009
Snow brings London to a standstill
SNOW!
OK boring for most, however really exciting for me. We had between four and six inches, which may be a dissapointment to some, but is enough for me.
As I was unable to connect to the work network on Friday or over the weekend I decided to drive in, this was probably a silly thing to do, but the opportunity to see so many places looking stunning covered in snow was just too much to resist, and the view from my fifth floor (sixth floor to Americans) desk was worth the two hours drive.
I have to say that everyone drove very sensibly, which was a relief, I didn't see any accidents, although we did have one lorry blocking a roundabout, one little dog running around in the snow, but in the snow on the road, and roadworks :-
There are over 100 desks on my floor, about half of which are normally populated, and Monday is normally a busy day as people tend to fly on a Tuesday or Monday afternoon/evening (I normally flew on a Sunday, but then I had no life). Anyway I would expect about 60 people in today, and there are 3 of us!
OK boring for most, however really exciting for me. We had between four and six inches, which may be a dissapointment to some, but is enough for me.
As I was unable to connect to the work network on Friday or over the weekend I decided to drive in, this was probably a silly thing to do, but the opportunity to see so many places looking stunning covered in snow was just too much to resist, and the view from my fifth floor (sixth floor to Americans) desk was worth the two hours drive.
I have to say that everyone drove very sensibly, which was a relief, I didn't see any accidents, although we did have one lorry blocking a roundabout, one little dog running around in the snow, but in the snow on the road, and roadworks :-
There are over 100 desks on my floor, about half of which are normally populated, and Monday is normally a busy day as people tend to fly on a Tuesday or Monday afternoon/evening (I normally flew on a Sunday, but then I had no life). Anyway I would expect about 60 people in today, and there are 3 of us!
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Much verbiage about nothing
2-3lbs this week and did very little exercise, I really need to focus on that, now I have steroid cream again that should make it a little easier.
Another quiet week, back on the prozac, but that should mean life gets more sunny soon.
Anyway went up to London with my Mother yesterday, arrived at the station at 09:20, it is having some work done and the electricity inside was out, so of five ticket machines and two ticket offices only one machine was working, missed two trains queueing for that, the coffee shop on the station seems to have shut, and there are works on the line so the journey was longer than expected.
Arrived at Picadilly at about 11:20 where we decided against dining as we were too early for a restaurant and didn't want to hang around waiting for them to open, so we went to Cafe Nero for coffee and a panini very pleasant. Then on to the RA, my Mother was agitating for the John Soanes Museum however I really wanted to see the Byzantium exhibition. When we arrived we found out that there was also an exhibition on Palladio, whilst I am not that interested in architecture the models of his buildings were very interesting and beautiful. The Byzantium exhibition was wonderful, I would have enjoyed more on the secular side of things, however it is definitely highly recommended.
There were a lot of Europeans around, both in Town, and in the RA, apparently with the collapse of the pound (apparently it has only kept parity with Turkey and Latvia) London is the place to go on holiday and almost all the hotels are full. It is an ill wind, although almost every shop round Picadilly seems to be having sales, so I guess things really aren't that good.
The Rock Circus seems to have gone, and been replaced by a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" I've been to the one in Orlando, in fact my favourite hotel is almost opposite, however I suspect that I will skip the experience in London.
Anyway on leaving the RA we went to Fortnum and Mason (Just a tip, but it is a much higher class shop than Harrods) where I managed to pick up a pound of Elvas plums for six quid :-) down from 24! Although their best before date was 31/01/09! Wonderful flavour, hadn't had them for years and was so glad that they were as good as I remembered them.
Thence back across the road to pick up some sushi for supper at Wasabi which I guess is an American chain, and is very nice, and very cheap, flying fish roe is up there with fatty tuna for me!
From there back to Waterloo, a cup of Nero for the train, and home about 17:00 for a quiet night.
Another quiet week, back on the prozac, but that should mean life gets more sunny soon.
Anyway went up to London with my Mother yesterday, arrived at the station at 09:20, it is having some work done and the electricity inside was out, so of five ticket machines and two ticket offices only one machine was working, missed two trains queueing for that, the coffee shop on the station seems to have shut, and there are works on the line so the journey was longer than expected.
Arrived at Picadilly at about 11:20 where we decided against dining as we were too early for a restaurant and didn't want to hang around waiting for them to open, so we went to Cafe Nero for coffee and a panini very pleasant. Then on to the RA, my Mother was agitating for the John Soanes Museum however I really wanted to see the Byzantium exhibition. When we arrived we found out that there was also an exhibition on Palladio, whilst I am not that interested in architecture the models of his buildings were very interesting and beautiful. The Byzantium exhibition was wonderful, I would have enjoyed more on the secular side of things, however it is definitely highly recommended.
There were a lot of Europeans around, both in Town, and in the RA, apparently with the collapse of the pound (apparently it has only kept parity with Turkey and Latvia) London is the place to go on holiday and almost all the hotels are full. It is an ill wind, although almost every shop round Picadilly seems to be having sales, so I guess things really aren't that good.
The Rock Circus seems to have gone, and been replaced by a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" I've been to the one in Orlando, in fact my favourite hotel is almost opposite, however I suspect that I will skip the experience in London.
Anyway on leaving the RA we went to Fortnum and Mason (Just a tip, but it is a much higher class shop than Harrods) where I managed to pick up a pound of Elvas plums for six quid :-) down from 24! Although their best before date was 31/01/09! Wonderful flavour, hadn't had them for years and was so glad that they were as good as I remembered them.
Thence back across the road to pick up some sushi for supper at Wasabi which I guess is an American chain, and is very nice, and very cheap, flying fish roe is up there with fatty tuna for me!
From there back to Waterloo, a cup of Nero for the train, and home about 17:00 for a quiet night.
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