A few stray randomalia from my travels
Very annoyingly, somebody said something, or there was a conversational interaction, during one of the meals on the train (where table sharing was obligatory), which I thought, that would make an interesting discussion point whenever I next get the opportunity to post to DW...
... and then I forgot what it was.
Sorry, folks. I know it would have been really provocative of a really rewarding discussion.
I know, this is why we have Evernote.
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Dept of 'if you can read this, you're too close': somebody commenting about the small typeface on my e-reader, WTF? as we were sitting waiting for something or other.
This gets shelved next to the person who, in the days when the only source of going online at Grayshott was a public computer in the coffee area, asked me what I'd been typing away at.
The words,'and this is any of your business precisely how?' spring to mind.
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Also on the train, the elderly Scottish gentleman who told me that, should the vote go pro Independence, he would be emigrating to live with his kinfolk in Montreal. This struck me as having a certain irony.
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I don't think I posted about this at the time, just saying that it had been a gruelling day involving moving to a room where I didn't get the dawn coming up like thunder right in my face around 3 am. After first sending me off to put my gear in one room, it turned out in due course that it was not fitted for purpose and they sent me off with the relevant keys and toting my luggage to another residential block. Where there was no room with a number corresponding to that on the key.
After I had had something of an exhausted meltdown over this I managed to ring the relevant office and someone came over and said that, ah, although it says 11Y, actually the room it corresponds to is 11X (and later told me that this had been A Known Issue for some years). This was the room with the bathroom with a sliding door which had slid so far back into its slot that there was no way of sliding it out again.
Plus, I felt that it was something of a false economy to have sheets that were just that much smaller than the bed that it was practically impossible to tuck them in.
Nonetheless, I had much more restful nights.
Enquiring minds would however be interested to know if these issues ever actually get sorted.
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