Wednesday Blog

  • Shifting gears

      Kansas City – With the London 2013 trip behind me, it’s time to start looking at the next big adventure. This time instead of travelling hours and hours to the east, I’ll be heading west, though not quite in the manner that Horace Greely intended. Next weekend I’ll be heading with a small cast of Read more

  • Goodbye!

    Kansas City – Well, the time at last has come. I spent the last night of my stay in the Alexander Fleming Halls of Residence in Hoxton up reading, and doing some minor research on local history. My thought was that it would help me to sleep on the plane if I didn’t sleep at all the night Read more

  • Eschatology

    Shoreditch, London – Well, the time has come. Just a wee bit less than a week ago I wrote about it being the dawn of the third week of my 2013 residency here in London, and the odd thing is that that little ferret called time just keeps slipping away. It’s like Tom and Jerry, no Read more

  • Commonwealth, Circles, and Cake

    Shoreditch, London – The first two business days of Week Three have been quite adventurous. It all began with a bucket, a workman, and a lightbulb. I had been dreaming about driving down K-7 just north of Leavenworth when there was a great clamour outside my room. Realising it was rather too light outside considering that Read more

  • One last Weekend

    Shoreditch, London – Well that time has come. I could either look at it with terminality, or continuity. So, rather than be a moody banker who isn’t too keen on charity (thus why there aren’t too many beggars around the Bank of England), I’ll call this week the third week of my trip. Tempus fugit certainly isn’t Read more

  • The Train Journey

    A train arrives with majesty Its carriages lined in the Station, ‘tis the 11.15 to Cardiff Central.   I walk along the platform, Waiting for my carriage. First I come upon the First Class carriages Awaiting some well-to-do traveller.   Then down the platform I go, Walking out of Paddington And into the rain. At Read more