I threw a highly productive strop at work today, very satisfying and liable to turn me from someone who avoids confrontation at all costs to positively seeking it out. Within moments of a measured but clearly enraged email, I had a call from someone who promised to use her holiday tomorrow to work on addressing […]
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Moment of quiet
A day without social commitments, a blessed change. I can’t say I got a lot of work done, and was slightly annoyed and distracted by learning that someone I like but isn’t very good at their job was about to leave their contract and was offered a permanent position to stay. Ah well. My perpetual […]
Family weekend
The morning was spent discussing the family of yesterday, and in the afternoon another family came by, one less tense certainly, but established in well-worn grooves where one member would say something as true fact and everyone else would explain how they did not understand human beings. No one seemed particularly bothered by it, and […]
Parent trap
This morning we went to London’s outskirts and attended an end-of-year school show. Not something I’ve ever had to do before, being blessedly childless, but I did feel sorry for my parents who had to attend these things, at least for the first few years of my life, after which my father plain refused and […]
Heron hunt
On our walk over Hampstead heath we spotted a heron on the hunt. A large, beautiful bird, with all its focus on a clump of grass. It pounced and emerged with a small wriggling thing, a mouse perhaps, and swallowed it down whole. Very dramatic in the moment, and more successful than the last hunt […]
Okay tor
Actually it was Yes Tor, Oke Tor is another one. I had taken the day off today so left for a walk on the moors, a little more ambitious than the one on Sunday as it involved a reasonable amount of climbing. I only climbed two of four tors on the walk, though, and skirted […]
Grrrr
People who drink teabag tea – do they not realise actual tea does not taste like lightly caffeinated wet paper? Do they like this rubbish?
Over the moors
Well, I didn’t do as much work as I should have yesterday but walking is better than faffing, so after a slice of toast and some tea, I went off for a walk across the moors, with three objectives: a cream tea at Belstone, see the stone circle, and return alive. All three objectives were […]
No cream tea
Today was a no cream tea day, the opportunity did not arise. I have something due on Monday and I want to go for a long walk tomorrow so spent most of the day working, with an outing in the afternoon to walk up to the castle. The castle is actually a mediaeval hunting lodge […]
Inglorious tumble
It was a hot day and I went along what is known as the Granite Way, thinking it would be more sheltered than the open moors. It probably was, but still a slight misjudgement as it’s a pukka cycle path, so the surface was glaring when the sun was very hot. Still, a very nice […]