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Riding home on the Oxford Tube right now. And, yes, the timestamp on this post has not gone wonky. It has been a long day at work! Started with a meeting at ten o'clock in the morning... and, actually, it is still going on. I've an international video conference starting in an hour, and lasting until one o'clock in the morning. Hopefully, I will be awake enough to make my presentation coherently!
One more nice thing about the long Summer days is that, even when I work late, it does not feel like I am. The sun did set a little while ago... but the sky is still quite bright with the long twilight! I did miss bell ringing at St. Giles tonight, leaving work a little before nine as the practice -- fifty miles away -- was ending. Still, it has been a very productive day at work, which is quite satisfying!
Besides the long Summer days, which are unchangeable at this latitude, the English weather has also been uncharacteristically good. Excellent, in fact! Especially on the weekends! This has been quite a wonderful surprise... and has paid off in terms of some awesometacular trips! Although I have been living in England for over three years now, I am still very much a tourist. As such, I like to use the Summer weekends for adventures, exploring more of the land of Eng!
So far, this Summer has been quite excellent for adventures! During the holiday weekend at the end of May, my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat and I had a phenomenal five day trek around the Northernmost bits of England. The travelogue for that trip is still in the process of being written up; three days down, two to go! The following weekend, first in June, the adorable bunnypip brought me to Coventry, to visit the cathedral(s) and the mass war grave. And -- to complement the trip Up North -- last weekend, cheshcat and bunnypip and I all went Down South together. There we visited Salisbury Cathedral and Winchester and explored the New Forest[*].
The trip Down South was wonderful -- as were they all -- and, thus, deserves a proper travelogue just as much as the trip to Northumbria. I shall write one... but only after I finish chronicling the Northern trip. One thing at a time! Readers ofbunnypip's journal may have already seen a trip report, which she wrote as two locked posts; others can bide the time as they wait for my write-up by enjoying the following video -- next in the "Nomad Walking Tours" series!
Meanwhile, I am hoping that this trend of warm, clear, dry, sunny weather continues! No road trip is planned for this weekend. Nope -- instead, for this weekend's adventure, I shall be hopping on a friend's boat in Oxford on Saturday morning... then cruising along the Thames all weekend long! As a water elemental, I need hardly explain why I am quite excited about my impending aquatic exploration!
[(00:24) ETA: Meeting is over early! Excellent!! This means that I can get nearly eight hours sleep before I have to wake up and go into work for the next meeting. Also, my presentation was well received, which is nice. And, apropos to nothing, I notice that my journal currently has 10101 comments on it. So... who is going to comment next and break the binary symmetry?]
[*] In this case, "new" means "established by William the Conquerer in 1079".
One more nice thing about the long Summer days is that, even when I work late, it does not feel like I am. The sun did set a little while ago... but the sky is still quite bright with the long twilight! I did miss bell ringing at St. Giles tonight, leaving work a little before nine as the practice -- fifty miles away -- was ending. Still, it has been a very productive day at work, which is quite satisfying!
Besides the long Summer days, which are unchangeable at this latitude, the English weather has also been uncharacteristically good. Excellent, in fact! Especially on the weekends! This has been quite a wonderful surprise... and has paid off in terms of some awesometacular trips! Although I have been living in England for over three years now, I am still very much a tourist. As such, I like to use the Summer weekends for adventures, exploring more of the land of Eng!
So far, this Summer has been quite excellent for adventures! During the holiday weekend at the end of May, my beloved
cheshcat and I had a phenomenal five day trek around the Northernmost bits of England. The travelogue for that trip is still in the process of being written up; three days down, two to go! The following weekend, first in June, the adorable bunnypip brought me to Coventry, to visit the cathedral(s) and the mass war grave. And -- to complement the trip Up North -- last weekend, cheshcat and bunnypip and I all went Down South together. There we visited Salisbury Cathedral and Winchester and explored the New Forest[*].The trip Down South was wonderful -- as were they all -- and, thus, deserves a proper travelogue just as much as the trip to Northumbria. I shall write one... but only after I finish chronicling the Northern trip. One thing at a time! Readers of
bunnypip's journal may have already seen a trip report, which she wrote as two locked posts; others can bide the time as they wait for my write-up by enjoying the following video -- next in the "Nomad Walking Tours" series!Meanwhile, I am hoping that this trend of warm, clear, dry, sunny weather continues! No road trip is planned for this weekend. Nope -- instead, for this weekend's adventure, I shall be hopping on a friend's boat in Oxford on Saturday morning... then cruising along the Thames all weekend long! As a water elemental, I need hardly explain why I am quite excited about my impending aquatic exploration!
[(00:24) ETA: Meeting is over early! Excellent!! This means that I can get nearly eight hours sleep before I have to wake up and go into work for the next meeting. Also, my presentation was well received, which is nice. And, apropos to nothing, I notice that my journal currently has 10101 comments on it. So... who is going to comment next and break the binary symmetry?]
[*] In this case, "new" means "established by William the Conquerer in 1079".
