- On the ugly train this morning to Liverpool street #
- Fantastic. I have a meeting from 1800-2000 tonight. #
- 0620 … BBC news has turned into an episode oif nationwide. There is no real news on today. #
- Day 3 on the road. Slightly concerned that – since I only have night cream to moisturise with- I am turning to the dark side of skin care. #
- just bought a kit kat on the train. the tea cup over heated it and it's now inedible. #
- I'm supposed to be losing weight anyway. #
- Moved seat on train. Nice man been replaced with grab bag munching daily mail reader. He's failing to get most of the crisps in his mouth #
- I want to go camping NOW. #
- I'm glad I wasn't a brass monkey in our tent last night. Hit Close to zero in the high peaks. #
- Five hour walk. Now in pub with local beer and tabloids to get angry at. Bliss. #
- I cannot hit the pub bore (I stole my mums car at 15) as he already has crutches. Looks like bill nighies younger brother #
- Therese deftly deals with west Yorkshire rascist before we sit down for dinner. #
- Her hair is in the genre of power ballet #
- Low 2 degrees. I can believe that #
- @jonmacqueen unfollow in reply to jonmacqueen #
- struggling with the camera #
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After our walk up Kinder Scout, we reward ourselves with a trip to the local. The Sportsman’s Inn is only five minutes from the campsite. The fire is on, the beer good and the food looks promising.
After settling in and laughing the Daily Mail for a few minutes, the pub bore (top right) starts up on some poor guest.
“I ran away from home at 15. I nicked my mum’s car. She taught me to drive when I was 11.”
“Show me anything and if I can turn it into a machine state diagram, I can understand it”
“I’ve been shot and stabbed so many times, I can’t remember” (this I can understand)
… and so on.
Desperately entertaining. Unlike the mushroom stroganoff which was, in fact, desperately poor.
Tags: hayfield, kinder scout., sportsman inn
Friday night. We’re off to a campsite at Hayfield. The tent is up just as the rain starts.
Lovely site … but the temperature plummets and by 8pm it must only be around 6 degrees.
Alcohol warms us slightly (though technically actually cools us, thus making the surrounding air bite less).
After a very cold night’s sleep, we awake to a glorious day. It’s still damn cold, though.
Breakfast consumed and lunch packed, we’re off to Kinder Scout. Everything around here is called Kinder something … except there’s no Kinder surprise.
From the top, we can see Manchester. So much to answer for. There
There’s also steam coming off the peat (left)
The descent is problematic. Despite following the instructions, we end up heading off course and drop down towards Edale. We have to leg it back up a few hundred metres to get over towards Hayfield again. In all around 15 kilometres, so not a bad day out.
Tags: camping, hayfield, kinder scout., peak district
Around half of what we picked. All cooking apples, though. There’s a lot of apple chutney and apple crumble coming our way.
Next : cabbage, carrot, beets and turnip.
Tags: apple
Short notice meant staying at the Holiday Inn Express near Victoria. A straightforward enough affair. The breakfast, however, left me a little intimidated on approach.
Tags: 1984, holiday inn, room 101, victoria
- Untangling the Pentagon's craziest PowerPoint slide ever http://bit.ly/c1p9Tt /via @BoingBoing #
- listening to the Bee Gees in Manchester airport lounge. The plane will be late again. I will resist extra caramel shortbread #
- Glasgow Eve Times raise dummy text blunder stakes: headline, standfirst & pull quote all victims http://bit.ly/aYYtuH (via @fleetstreetblue) #
- Almost 24 hours in Manchester and not approached by WAG loving prostitutes #
- big choccies again. another upgrade! #
- I liked "Back for good". But when I hear a smooth jazz instrumental version I feel cheap and dirty. #
- It having pizza for breakfast following 0730 meeting #
- Windsor(n.) Royal Theme-Park pleasantly nestl'd athwart the Tourist Port of HEATHROW & the Peasant Stockade of SLOUGH /via @DrSamuelJohnson #
- The internet is dead. At Zurich airport #
- overheard in bar 'whats that James bond film with the octopus in it?' ….. 'octopussy' #
- Left Edinburgh. Pope arrives a few days later. Left Zurich, arrived in London. Pope here.. Perhaps gods repersentative is omnipresent. #
- nooo … on hold and "Florence and the Machine" have come on. MOR for "indie" kids of the "teenies" #
- I am not paranoid. So why is everyone on the tube looking at me? #
- bye bye scooter. Sob
# - I like wet sticks. You can poke bad guys with it and make them wet #
- 0600 start, 0728 train. The beginning of a long week. #
- awww shit. the man who's just sat down opposite me looks like the marginally less druggy brother of "Bez". #
- … and he's got an ipad. I guess that means he's a dealer too. #
- Or perhaps he's just not a morning person and has very bad dress sense. #
- Has been to sainsburys . Head office. #
- Regretting that expresso at 5pm #
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