Somebody was supposed to occupy the seat next to mine at York, but didn't turn up. So, I can spread out. It's also nice that the 'reserved' sign on the head of the seat shows whence and to where the seat is reserved... they were supposed to get off in 'Berwick on Tw', wherever that is. (On Tweed, I suppose, but that still ( Read more... )

Timestamp in BST, 'British Summer Time', which I would call ( Read more... )

It's just gone midnight in San Francisco and I've only been awake for a few hours. Jetlag is going to be fun tomorrow.

Anyhoo, I'm back in London for the day. I'm going to meet some peeps for lunch, see the Eye of London ferris wheel I've been meaning to go on (only because it's a backdrop for so many Brit dramas) and have a quiet dinner with nitoda, twangman ( Read more... )

uberredfraggle was right: this event was great fun, and well worth all the running around to go to it, even the cost of the flight I needed to buy to get around the Chunnel.

There were only two threads, but like with any con, there were times that I wanted to be at both sessions and other times I wasn't particularly fussed about either.

I ended up going to the ( Read more... )

[Timestamp in EWDT]

It's a good thing that nitoda and science_vixen let me know about the Chunnel fire, otherwise I'd be stuck in Brussels right now, using this userpic. Instead, I'm in London, earlier than expected.

Unfortunately, this bial-out cost me €343.68. Last time I flew ( Read more... )