Yes, my dearios, I am now in New York, looking out onto Canal Street and Broadway.
Although I had a rather severe migraine last night, mitigated but not actually halted by the wonder drug, which rendered me rather unsure about my proposed travel today and I even made enquiries about cost of cab from Long Island to Manhattan: not quite entirely ( Read more... )

Though at the moment just rather cool and overcast.
So far travel has gone almost sinisterly well: minicab turned up on time, got to Heathrow in under an hour, expeditiously through check-in and security, you now get 4 hrs of free WiFi in Terminal 2 (though the signal is not always all that).
Plane part of the journey a bit tedious but at least ( Read more... )

3) Meeting with a national body about project we are handing off to them, which might not be too bad if it was not timed in such a way as probably to unravel all the benefits of my yoga class.
Actually this was not too bad, we all seem to be on the same page and it sounds that some things may be less hassle than anticipated.

4) Second trip out of ( Read more... )

Drew back the curtains this morning and at first thought it had snowed during the night, and then realised that the entire lawn was covered with thick frost, sparkling in sunlight under a clear blue sky.
Christmas card moment! (photo may follow.)
And further to my question yesterday about professional requirements that were not in the qualifying ( Read more... )

End of my week barrelling through An Awful Lot of personal papers - 3 substantial collections (and a few bits of the unnavigably catalogued one), and I know whereof I speak re size, although I was confining myself to incoming correspondence, rigorous date parameters, and being very, very selective over the files I looked at. As in, there is ( Read more... )

Okay, I know I've already done The Knowledge, but there was a lovely article in today's Guardian G2 about that and the trad black cab etc by a newly-fledged cabby.

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And on transportation, may I beseech my dr rdrs not to emulate the terribly poor ton I encountered on Saturday.

Yes, I have pointed out that the premium seat on a doubledecker bus is ( Read more... )

The Knowledge:
25,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks and places of interest in the six mile radius of Charing Cross, stashed in the memories of licensed black cab drivers. (As they are still known, although it is many years since all licensed London taxis were black.)

It changes their brayynnnzzz!

According to a survey undertaken by the we are not ( Read more... )

After a pretty reasonable flight with even some watchable movies, and is now ensconced in the Hotel Extremely Close to O'Hare at the name of which the taxi drivers at the airport always look completely bewildered and have to be told where it is. (Perhaps The Knowledge of London cabbies spoils one?)

Have had my usual comfort food meal at adjacent ( Read more... )

Be it recorded here, the taxi-driver on Friday deployed The Knowledge rather than GPS to get me home by the quickest route.

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However, am going aaaaargh and reaching out for the nearest codfish (after I've stopped beating my head on the wall) at this intelligence, if that is the appropriate term: But now the stars have found another way to ( Read more... )

London taxi-drivers who have taken to relying on their snazzy GPS rather than The Knowledge and take you all around the houses instead of the quickest way home.