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Dinner With Grandpa Potts

2 minute read

After work this evening I decided it was time tovisit the local public house for dinner once again - to have a hot meal if nothing else. The arduous journey ...

Not Going Out

2 minute read

This evening you find me sitting in a hotel hundreds of miles from home, actively using the internet to escape my temporary confinement. I could have wandere...

Another Monday Another Journey

4 minute read

You would think - given the frequency I travel up and down the country that I would be used to the various coincidental adventures that creep up on me. Nope....

Single Handed Again

1 minute read

I’m surprised the washing machine didn’t spontaneously combust yesterday - apart from a pause when I took our middle girl into town with her friend for lunch...

One Week Down

6 minute read

The first week of my cross-country adventures is done. Wrapped. In the can. I checked out of the hotel yesterday morning and said goodbye to the predictably ...

Not Really Byron At All

2 minute read

Well that’s the end of that then. I paid the princely sum of 5 last night for high speed internet access in my hotel room, and the 24 hours just ran out. The...

Two Days Down

5 minute read

After the long and arduous journey from the office back to my hotel - all 100 yards of it, I decided to brave the recent unpredictability of my body, and act...

One Day Down

3 minute read

Ok. That’s the first day of this trip ticked off the list. Working with wonderful people in a wonderful office. The work part of this journey was never going...

Three Trains And A Cab Ride

4 minute read

I left the house a little after 3pm with the children in tow to deliver them to friend’s houses before heading to the railway station. Our youngest was “book...

Packing For Departure

1 minute read

I’m packing my bags today to travel with work - a five hour journey across the country this evening to Preston in Lancashire - the north west. Just to make t...