A week! I admit it’s been kind of a crazy week, even more so than usual, which is why I haven’t gotten round to recording (lightly) last Friday. And really there’s not much to do other than drop a whole bunch of photos in one after the other. Anyway, I’m now heading down to London every other Friday and to get there in time for breakfast, it’s starts at around, well here…
5:07
Catching the train from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton.
6:00
Standing around at Wolverhampton looking for the London train, always a bit weird this one as I’m generally booked into the Quiet coach which tends to be at one end of the train or the other. Which involves a walk down to the end of the platform but it’s never possible to tell which end until it arrives, sometimes I worry that the doors will close before I even reach the end of the train.
Stupid long trains!
8:19
Euston – Underground – The Shepherdess for breakfast
9:00
BERG, getting a sneak peek at the new office space, which is lovely and full off things that could end up in the background of photos that aught not to, so best not to risk it and just take photos of the sign instead.
9:35
Finally, nearly five hours after getting up, made it into work. This is my Friday from now on (well every other Friday anyway).
13:01
Too busy to take photos or eat until now. The downside of not being in the office that much, is that when you are your time tends to feel up with meetings pretty quickly.
Clearly cake was in order.
15:36
Inexplicably at the British Museum, as you do.
16:47
Back in the office just as the sun is setting, always really hard to get a photo of the sunset as the whole office is lit up and reflects in the glass as you shoot out, grrrr
19:11
Back to Euston to get the train home, time for some podcasts
20:47
Connection at Birmingham New Street, just enough time to play the which platform is my train going to be on this time game.
22:11
Back into Shrewsbury station, here’s the fire alarm system.
22:29
Finally home, 18 hours later, making it somehow a theoretical 8 hour work day, with 10 hours of faffing around getting to work and back. But in this case some of that “faffing” is having breakfast and talking to people, and hanging around a bit to get a cheaper train on the return home.
sleep.