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Recent Microposts and Posts at tomwilson.com
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When I was a kid, the store on the right sold knitting supplies, and the owners lived upstairs. When I was in grade school, the little girl who lived there invited me to her birthday party. At the party she selected who would be invited the following year. I didn’t make the list and was OK with that.
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Categories: Northeast England, Now-and-Then
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Lightly sea-salted crisps for Dwight, sweet chili and red pepper crisps for me, washed down with 20-fluid-ounce beers. Earlier we had full English breakfasts. The rose is real.
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After the flight, then a long walk along the Thames, checked into Goodenough (postgraduate) College, Bloomsbury, London. Our surprisingly spacious en suite couples room has a sitting area and a view of the quadrangle. Windows open, no traffic noise, just the happy sounds of a croquet game.
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Bulkhead seats, 2-across, in steerage. Life's good. MSP--LHR (London).
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Reading materials were spread out at Rouge Urban Salon where Emily cut our hair today. But we didn’t talk about hair fashion; instead we talked about travel and hiking. Emily will soon be walking part of the Camino de Santiago starting in Lyon, France, and we’re about to hit the trails in England.
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Not OK at the Bike Corral
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Came back from a walk with a friend to find my bike locked to a bunch of other bikes. Walked around, alarming small groups with my question: "Did you come here in a bike group?" Eventually, I struck lucky with a group having lunch at Sea Salt. The leader was suitably apologetic.
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I've been agonizing over best practices for attaching a LEGO drive chain to a carriage. Today, I was inspired by online instructions for a forklift truck that uses a chain to lift. I attached the chain to one link of a tank tread, and inserted the ends of the link into the holes of Technic beams. Easy!
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