Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Vignettes

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The couple in the food court at Victoria Station, who carefully weighed themselves (sans shoes, of course) with a set of bathroom scales the...

Dateline Yorkshire Sunday

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Drive around the entrance to the Dales, to Ripon, and Fountains Abbey. Yes, ABC - another bloody church. But this one is a ruin, and magni...

Dateline Harrogate Saturday 22nd

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Drive Scarborough to Harrogate in the morning (Saturday) to see the threads exhibition and trade show (for M's work). Tuck in behind a ...

Dateline Grand Hotel, Scarborough Friday 21st

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We chose this largely on the basis of a Grundy's Wonders piece. The dear man clearly didn't stay at this architectural wonder. And...

Dateline York to Scarborough Friday 21st

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Rental car to Scarborough - Big Mistake! Took fully one hour to clear York (going the wrong way at first, but found the outer ring road qui...

Dateline York and the Minster Friday 21st

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York is a walled city (no dogs allowed on walls signs everywhere) with gates (bars in the local patios) through them. Minster is simply, to...

Dateline Yorkshire Friday 21st

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Got to Kings Cross early (delays on Victoria tube did not happen). We were booked on an 1100 train to York, but hopped the earlier Aberdeen...
Friday, November 21, 2003

Thursday and Wednesday - demos and slow Tubes...

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Inevitable delays everywhere - could have walked quicker. One 'protester' on the Tube, wearing a Bush mask with a forked snake tong...
Wednesday, November 19, 2003

That AB result

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On Saturday morning, as we headed back from doing laundry, we looked in at a little pub in Warwick Way, to check the progress of the game. ...
Monday, November 17, 2003

London Day #14 Sunday Nov 16

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Touristing again - off to Greenwich via the Tube, then Docklands Light Rail. DLR is disconcertingly driverless! Went through East London -...

London Day #13 Saturday Nov 15

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Tourist day! To the laundrette first, then the Big Bus trip all around central London. Stopped off at the Tower and did the trip through t...

London Day #12 Friday Nov 14

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Tube to work via Chancery Lane, walked down Holborn, to avoid (what else in England?)- a tube strike which knocked out the most direct route...
Friday, November 14, 2003

London Day #11 Thursday Nov 13 - Night

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M came up to Kypera and did some stitch graphing work. We walked back along my morning route: West Smithfield, Old Bailey, Ludgate Hill, C...

London Day #11 Thursday Nov 13

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W - have decided to walk a different way to Kypera (up in Charterhouse Street) every day. So this morning's route was tube to Mansion H...

London day#10 Wednesday Nov 12

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At a Kypera client in High Wycombe - some 25 miles north-west of London. Victoria and Bakerloo deep tubes to Marylebone, then Chiltern Rail...

London day#9 Tuesday Nov 11

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At a Kypera client in Bloomsbury. Nice, old part of town (what, in central London, isn't old?) Tube there, bus (the real-thing double...
Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Somerset and London Day #8

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Back to London on the bus, in daylight. Stonehenge on the left, lots of large paddocks (fields) worked up and showing chalk. Gentle rollin...
Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Somerset, Day #7

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Take-it-easy day: M's Dad died last week and while this was expected, still a wrench to be so far away. Speech to do and mail, to be r...

Somerset, Day #6

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Wincanton is a typical English country village. Went on a bus trip with Trev for most of the day, to Stonar school (where Mummy and Daddy...

London Day #5

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Went out to a client at Elstree - home of the film (fill-um) studios which do EastEnders and the Who Wants to be a Millionaire, amongst othe...