More runnin', lots of walkin'
Went for a run today in the new nauseous pink shoes. Jury is still out.
My knees tell me they've done some different work today, because they're aching differently than before.
Spent much of the weekend with goncalves and the splendid J, in their new digs in Cardiff, and also visiting Bristol. J has lived there awhile, and gave the tour of the fashionable Gloucester Road, the 'centre' with its gruesome postwar buildings, the redeveloped bits close to the main train station where she works, and some of the S Bristol neighbourhoods.
North and South Bristol are a bit like N and S London, a few years ago - N London fashionable, S London up and coming, w/ big differences in housing prices between the two (now all London is stupid expensive, doesn't matter where you are).
I had no idea you could build a city on a site so hilly; I can't see how they could be built before cars existed. Horse-drawn transport just wouldn't make it up some slopes, at all.
Parts of Bristol are heavily populated by charity shops, which is risky for me because I can lose a lot of time in them. J says the better ones are picked over by Bristol students who have the time and motivation to shop regularly!
On Sunday we visited Caerphilly Castle in preparation for autumn Crown. It was a glorious late-summer day, great day to visit, and the castle was at its best. We had a good visit with the custodian, and have promising ideas about where to host 'noisy' space to keep the crash space in the hall relatively quiet at the event.
One downside: no fires or candles. In an 800 year old stone building, we're not allowed to light fires in the fireplaces - those designated, purpose built areas intended to keep fires contained and managed. Sigh.
The trips to and fro were uneventful, though it was vexing to find that my network card, bought to get me discounts on train fares across the NETWORK, doesn't apply in Wales. The answer was 'You're in Wales love'. Apparently I'd entered a discount free zone, whereas if I'd bought a return ticket, it would have applied on both fares. Stupid stupid stupid.
They were also very full - people standing leaving London for the first hour, and paying £40 each way for the privilege.
My knees tell me they've done some different work today, because they're aching differently than before.
Spent much of the weekend with goncalves and the splendid J, in their new digs in Cardiff, and also visiting Bristol. J has lived there awhile, and gave the tour of the fashionable Gloucester Road, the 'centre' with its gruesome postwar buildings, the redeveloped bits close to the main train station where she works, and some of the S Bristol neighbourhoods.
North and South Bristol are a bit like N and S London, a few years ago - N London fashionable, S London up and coming, w/ big differences in housing prices between the two (now all London is stupid expensive, doesn't matter where you are).
I had no idea you could build a city on a site so hilly; I can't see how they could be built before cars existed. Horse-drawn transport just wouldn't make it up some slopes, at all.
Parts of Bristol are heavily populated by charity shops, which is risky for me because I can lose a lot of time in them. J says the better ones are picked over by Bristol students who have the time and motivation to shop regularly!
On Sunday we visited Caerphilly Castle in preparation for autumn Crown. It was a glorious late-summer day, great day to visit, and the castle was at its best. We had a good visit with the custodian, and have promising ideas about where to host 'noisy' space to keep the crash space in the hall relatively quiet at the event.
One downside: no fires or candles. In an 800 year old stone building, we're not allowed to light fires in the fireplaces - those designated, purpose built areas intended to keep fires contained and managed. Sigh.
The trips to and fro were uneventful, though it was vexing to find that my network card, bought to get me discounts on train fares across the NETWORK, doesn't apply in Wales. The answer was 'You're in Wales love'. Apparently I'd entered a discount free zone, whereas if I'd bought a return ticket, it would have applied on both fares. Stupid stupid stupid.
They were also very full - people standing leaving London for the first hour, and paying £40 each way for the privilege.