Somewhere during the second pint after arriving in Edinburgh (a semi-dreadful journey weakened me!) I realised I was probably going to fail with the taking of pictures and writing/typing of words, even the sketching would take a back seat… In the end I took photographs of the Signspotting Project madness and the Christmas Shop, the latter purely because it would amuse Nicola and her mother. So yes, I failed to capture my antics.
The literary pub tour was probably the highlight, really good night with sore heads all round the morning after and shockingly light wallets too.
The 9hr (More like 10hrs when you include the car and bus side of things) journey that took me from Edinburgh to Haverfordwest, “hello Midnight!” Was tiring and allowed me to relearn all my favourite football chants courtesy of lads celebrating their exam results before Cardiff… I had to laugh and thankfully they were all in such a good mood as to leave the crazy-haired (I got annoyed and had loads cut-off, the survivors are in open, curly rebellion.) geek alone.
I’ve spent the past week and a bit in a sleepy, beautiful part of Pembrokeshire being both distraction, motivator and luxurious layabout to my wonderful geekette. She has a dissertation to finish and I’ve always been very ‘Hakuna Matata’ on the academia side, very much the stubborn rogue who would much rather they let him do his own thing than suffer the enforced, rigid and ultimately damning modular approach to study. Modules are awful when there are too few to choose from, the idea surely was to make it easier to cater a degree to the needs/interests of individuals like myself?
The lack of updates has not all been laziness, truth be told I feel more comfortable working on my desktop… I have plans for the blog, plans I hope my bakery lifestyle does not delay too much, plans that involve pretty things and longer entries. There are a few blogs/sites I’m going to quickly link to because they should be in my blogroll and indeed will be when I’ve had a chance to sort them a little graphic… in no particular order:
http://lurvalamode.wordpress.com/
Sometimes, you find a blog quite by chance via an unusual series of web leaps that you wish you’d found sooner. lovely use of sidebars and absolute dedication to devouring literature towards creative, exciting reviews. (Twitter: KMont)
P O N O R is new(ish) to wordpress, a creative and fun individual. (Twitter: ponor)
I know too many awesome (and dangerous) girl geeks to dare neglect them for too long… (Twitter: girlygeekdom)
-Tom
Tags: Edinburgh, lazy, Pembrokeshire, signspotting, travel
