SI didn't get round to posting last weekend... The jots of multi-billion pound projects with ever sliding completion dates, useless communicators and the joys of suddenly having to do quite a lot in a short timespan... Still, it did lead to a lovely moment on Friday when I reached a point where I could get away from the PCs so had a nice walk at dawn, then went up to Kew for more exercise - nature's a wonderful thing, the changes there in just a couple of weeks were stunning.
Might have to set the ball rolling on another scene, get some more daftness into life.
Gorgeous! I'd love to say we have the same here. I can see some lovely nature out on my trail rides, but they are unfortunately always punctuated with trash everywhere...
Potatoman-J said: Gorgeous! I'd love to say we have the same here. I can see some lovely nature out on my trail rides, but they are unfortunately always punctuated with trash everywhere...
Kew Gardens isn't really comparable, it's well-looked after and you have to pay to get in! And some folks still manage to leave litter behind... I'm hoping to get there again on Friday.
It's National Walking month here, so I've been trying to get out more, it's good to get outside during the day, I guess easing myself towards normality. Anyway, there's an app linked to the local authority to track active travel and it hands out badges, it's gone a bit mad this week, this morning I added another medal having walked 70 miles this month!
I've got a bit of forced socialising this week, off for lunch on a Pullman train ride to Windsor (had a voucher to use up as it isn't the best run) I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it, or dreading the forced socialising of being lumped with other folks for a few hours...
Got a ticket for Messtival, have nominated a few scenes - it's quite difficult in some categories as you really need to know scenes inside out - which might explain why scenes I've commissioned were in the list! Interestingly, I think the theatre is the one that backs on to where the London Fetish Fair used to be held.
Lots of walking again this week, another visit to Kew on Friday and this morning I've been a for a nice walk in some local woods - the sort of woods that google earth shows a clear path running virtually straight through, but in reality it meanders around and has lots of junctions - looking at my Strava I did one loop at least twice!
Tuesday's trip was alright, not the most exciting run, nor the most scenic, but the price was fair and the food was good. Here's Mayflower and the sort of seat tat's never going to be referred to as an ironing board!
Had a ping for covid too so that might scupper going to Messtival next weekend...
Had a pretty bad mental health day yesterday, anything and everything was difficult. The last few Sundays I've been out for a walk at dawn, 10 miles one week, 13 last week, yesterday I managed 2 and a bit and most of that came from a road that tuned out to be far wigglier than I thought it was... I had a bit of a chat with Ari and that at least got me on the way to Messtival. A bright sunny day and dark venue didn't help either. Was great to see Ari in latex and get a hug too. I didn't stay on after the awards, I'm not great at mingling and polite blether at the best of times. When I got in and opened the blinds and window, the squirrels came over, clabering up the window edge (chancing their luck as they get nuts in the morning) anyway, I don't think they've had nuts delivered quite so aggressively, nor been told to F off so many times... This morning they were very quiet...
Still feeling pretty rubbish today, not been that productive on anything, it's taken me ages just to write this...
I haven't mentioned Project Incompetence for a while they're now in a lovely phase where they dangle carrots "you'll get this on such and such" okay, so what do we get? silence... It seems they are building a giant jigsaw and have lost the picture...
I did think I'd got back to normal (or as near normal as I ever was) but when I went to Kew on Friday I seemed to be very wary of people - as soon as it started to get busy I headed home on autopilot... It probably didn't help that in a period of 5 minutes walking through Victoria, I had three folks try to pass me on my blind side in a gap I deliberately leave at a not wide enough to fit a person distance...
My birthday's coming up soon, it'd be great to have something planned, but I haven't, maybe I should plan some fun, but the way my mind's been of late, I suspect it'll be highly anticlimactic..
Well, there's a small positive from the week in that I've gained two more lieu days from work thanks to an old woman having not died yet... Not in a great mind space (...again...)
Still up and down... I should really be doing fun things for my birthday weekend, but haven't... Aiming to go to Kew tomorrow, I had considered doing one of Candy's wamstructions today but then had the "there'll b a delivery at some point" so whole day revised and of course it arrived halfway through the GP...
My folks are down next weekend, hopefully my mind behaves this time... I'd hoped to have been able to do something with someone before now but any plans that were made unravelled... Still, we're slowly getting things planned in to do, until last week it was just an evening meal on a train (not sure if it'll still be Mayflower, the tour company got taken over so I might get a new engine for haulage), now we've added a visit to Brooklands Museum and their Concorde (the volunteers that look after it contain quite a few former BA employees from all grades), mum wants to see a couple of bridges near Paddington (will take in the bear's statue too) and that fits in with a trip on the Purple trains, a few nice eateries booked as well and I'm sure I'll get them to Kew as well.
Had a bit of a work crisis this week, the work PC grumbled a bit then gave the blue screen of disappointment (with lots of text that stays up for too little time to read...) It then did the "windows didn't shut down properly" stuff and opened up but with windows explorer frequently stopping. I flagged this to folks in the office and not much in the way of advice was forthcoming. I shut it down then realised I'd left a DVD in the drive so fired it up again, windows then ran disk checks, and sorted nearly all of the problems (winzip is broken) but the machine is now working. Considering I'd included one of the IT team you'd think "give it a restart" would have been suggested... Oh well, that's saved me lugging it into town on Monday for someone to say "it seems fine now"...
The most remarkable WAM thing with me is that I've managed to get through my downloads folder! I think there's one NC to go up in the stores, not sure when the next one will be shot, there's a few written and plenty that can be recycled.
I haven't posted for a while... Was good to spend time with my folks, the local vineyard wasn't a bad time filler, although we probably should have booked more than just the cellar tour tasting - oh, and it really is set up for folks to drive to somewhere where you'll get 5, admittedly small, glasses of wine over an hour... Hello occifer... Brooklands is somewhere that's probably best to visit at a busier time than a Monday before the schools are on holiday, the Concorde's nice, the VC10 wasn't open when we visited, but it looks rather nice inside (it isn't in normal airliner spec)
I haven't been on much since because work has been manic (again) 39 days straight and then ended up at a dead stop because yet another project ives in a silo... So I ended up having a "long weekend" with two meetings while there were strikes so I couldn't go anywhere anyway... Thanks to those clots, I'm ever further behind than I was with a succession of optimistic deadlines to meet...
I'm supposed to be going to Yorkshire next month, that's having to go, while I can get some costs back, I doubt I'll get all the train fares back... It's not just money though, it's the fresh air, the exercise, the not being in a tiny flat on your own... I've had one crack at socialising without family in two years and it didn't go well... Still, it won't be long until none of us can afford to go out and there won't be anywhere left to go out to...
Oh, and on the train trip front, the winter trips are out and look to be using the decent set from Crewe, there's a kind of apology offer of mulled wine and a mince pie to go with 30% price rises... Don't think we'll be doing any of them, one is too long a day, one you might see the engie and that just leave London - Lincoln, I've been there before by steam, didn't leave the station! (it involved two A4s and a cracking run behind No7.)