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wellinghall) wrote2006-07-09 09:38 pm
wellinghall) wrote2006-07-09 09:38 pm
Up and down
It ws our tenth wedding anniversary last Thursday. I got Creatrix a nice 1930s evening watch, which she likes - although with a temporary blip on Friday night, when it stopped! - but a jiggle got it going again. She had a tie-pin made for me, using a topaz she had inherited. It's lovely.
We had a few days away at Strattons Hotel in Swaffham in Norfolk, and saw two and a half castles (Castle Acre, Castle Rising, and Weeton), a priory (Castle Rising again), an abbey (Anglesey), a Cathedral (Ely), a hall (Holkham), some graves (Grimes), and three bird reserves (Cley, Titchwell and Snettisham). Much good food in the hotel, but mixed experiences at lunchtimes.
And yet this evening, I feel like sh*t. Is it the fact that my nice new tie-pin was mislaid earlier today, for long enough for me to get really worried? Is it that too few people noted our anniversary? Is it the position at work (too much going on in the short term, too little chance of a job in Luton for me in the long term)? Is it the fact that our email access is down tonight? Is it my upcoming hospital appointment? Is it that I'm missing my friends, with no real prospect of seeing most of them again before Oxonmoot? Have I just got too much going on in my life?
If you know of a goat-farm in the Outer Hebrides that's looking for someone, let me know. In the meantime, a hug or two wouldn't go amiss.
We had a few days away at Strattons Hotel in Swaffham in Norfolk, and saw two and a half castles (Castle Acre, Castle Rising, and Weeton), a priory (Castle Rising again), an abbey (Anglesey), a Cathedral (Ely), a hall (Holkham), some graves (Grimes), and three bird reserves (Cley, Titchwell and Snettisham). Much good food in the hotel, but mixed experiences at lunchtimes.
And yet this evening, I feel like sh*t. Is it the fact that my nice new tie-pin was mislaid earlier today, for long enough for me to get really worried? Is it that too few people noted our anniversary? Is it the position at work (too much going on in the short term, too little chance of a job in Luton for me in the long term)? Is it the fact that our email access is down tonight? Is it my upcoming hospital appointment? Is it that I'm missing my friends, with no real prospect of seeing most of them again before Oxonmoot? Have I just got too much going on in my life?
If you know of a goat-farm in the Outer Hebrides that's looking for someone, let me know. In the meantime, a hug or two wouldn't go amiss.
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As for not seeing enough friends, hopefully LJ will be able to provide some pale substitute for real-life contact until Oxonmoot rolls around.
*hugs*
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LJ does help. On the cathedrals, I think I prefer Lincoln, but maybe that's just home bias. Ely is certainly pretty impressive! - and, of course, it has Beorhtnoth's tomb.