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Slumming in Standard
I'm currently on the 12:30 from King's Cross to Durham (it goes to Newcastle, but I'm getting off at Durham). This is a business trip, but for once I'm on a standard ticket instead of first class. I have to say that I now appreciate first class all the more! There is a reason why on the few occasions that I have travelled by train in the last few years I've bought myself first class ; Quite simply it is about space and comfort. There is miles more leg room, table space and seat in the first class compartments compared to the standard. You don't feel like you are in other people's way nor cramped in any way. There is room to breathe. Not only that, but the wifi is faster in first class, and there is free coffee brought…
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Inspiration
Image via Wikipedia Today has been an unusually inspiring day, I had two separate ideas for games both of which I reckon could be pulled off in the space of a couple of days basic research and writing briefings etc. Tracy & I both woke up early and we got a couple of hours to do things before Alexander surfaced at the rather late (for him) 9am. In that time I unusually got to watch some TV of my own choice. The first idea came from a programme on the freeview channel 'Yesterday' about the Glencoe Massacre (or more accurately the events leading up to it and the aftermath. This is the follow on to the two games I've done about the revolution in 1689-90 in Scotland. There was a meeting between Albany and the Highland Chiefs where two secret…
Science Museum
Alexander and I had an afternoon out in the science museum, mostly in the basement playing with the boats in the water. We managed to get out just after 12, after a false start where we went back into the house to make sandwiches as I had misinterpretted Alexander's wish to eat lunch in the museum cafe as meaning I was buying it when we got there. A slow walk to the station, stopping a couple of times to watch the men digging up the roads and a lorry emptying a load of steaming tarmac back onto another filled in hole. We got the 12:41 into Victoria (changing at East Croydon) and then waited for a bus to South Ken as a small boy wanted a bus rather than the tube. We had an entertaining 10 minutes or so calling…
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Back to Work
I'm standing on the 08:22 to Victoria on my way to work. This is an hour later than usual, but first day after a long weekend with my brother and his fiancée ; Couldn't face a cold breakfast this morning as it was noticeably cold when I got up at 6 and couldn't summon energy to cook something either. Also wasted home trying to wrestle wireless back into life as it seemed to have got very slow after last night's two and a half hour power cut.
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power cut
I was playing in the spare room upstairs with Alexander having put it back the way it usually is after Michael & Gillian had left. The lights went out and Alexander popped up from under the duvet to tell me off! He was pretty good in the dark (and it was dark because of the cloud and the fact that all the lights in the vicinity had gone off). We carefully made our way downstairs to find a torch and some candles and set to getting some light. A few trips were made to the garage to try and find the proper gas lamp, but it eluded us and the one torch we could find wasn't really up to the job (it being a toy wind-up torch). I did, however, find a bag of very large candles and Tracy had…