My Twitter feed is chock full of tweets about the Virgin London Marathon that is happening today in.. duh.. London, and it reminded me that this time last year I was there. It wasn’t the weekend of the marathon but it was the weekend of the volcanic ash cloud craziness. The Icelandic volcano kicked off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘London’
April
Posted: 04/17/2011 in classics, daily lifeTags: 2010, ash cloud, blood wine, civil war, classics, exams, klingons, London, lucan, virgin london marathon
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Hard Reset
Posted: 05/18/2010 in Navel gazing, UncategorizedTags: ash cloud, ashtag, icelandic volcano, Life, London, UK
I feel like I am one of only two people (the other being my mum) who thoroughly enjoyed the volcanic eruption. It gave me breathing space, my meals were cooked for me, my tiny capsule wardrobe washed and ironed, and plenty of time to revise the affects of another volcanic eruption (Pompeii!). It was a [...]
Tower Bridge
Posted: 04/25/2010 in travel, UncategorizedTags: London, tower bridge, virgin london marathon
Today was the Virgin London Marathon, and I had to head into town to collect some Pompeii photocopies that a friend had kindly got her husband to bring across as he was coming to run. When I decided to stay the first panic was what about my stack of Pompeii images that I had carefully [...]
Well here I am, London
Posted: 04/25/2010 in Navel gazing, UncategorizedTags: ashtag, London, volcanic ash
It’s been an odd week fueled by exam tension, second guessing, PMT and VAD (volcanic ash drama). On Monday the situation looked particularly bleak so I decided to take myself out of the equation and not try to get back to NYC since I was meant to be flying to London on the 28th [...]
Forgive the random photo at the end of my last post as I am still trying to get to grips with the WordPress app on my iPad. After being cooped up in meetings for what felt like days I really needed lots of fresh air and a good walk. So today mum and I headed [...]
London
Posted: 04/17/2010 in Navel gazing, travelTags: ash, ashtag, Iceland, London, travel, volcanoes
I am currently trapped in London along with a fair number of my colleagues (and everyone else trying to depart this fair isle). I guess when the powers that be decided to schedule vision days they didn’t see as far as Iceland. A volcano goes poof in Iceland and the aviation industry grinds to a [...]
Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Vic, London)
Posted: 02/21/2010 in theare, travelTags: Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kevin Spacey, London, pompeii, Rothko, school, Six Degrees of Separation, The Old Vic, theatre
I birthed a 2,000 word essay on neighbourhoods in Pompeii yesterday. I know that is a regular sized essay but there was a lot of reading and throw in some traveling and a cold, and it turned into my Moby Dick. Whilst I’ve had it hanging over head I haven’t felt at liberty to really [...]
I should really be re-writing an essay on neighbourhoods in Pompeii or doing the reading for my next one on Antigone (which I just found out should be pronounced An-tig-on-e rather than Anti-gone) but no I am spragged out on the sofa drinking a limb Starbucks latte and trying very hard to stay awake. Oh [...]
First, I dodged two greenpeace, then a lone mind and finally there was a blur of cancer somethings as I ran screaming “Non UK Resident” through central London. I guess this means the universities have broken up for the summer and the charities are recruiting! Today I had to double back when I thought I [...]
letter from britannia
Posted: 05/19/2004 in daily life, london life, pop culture, sci-fi, television, travelTags: Enterprise, London, star trek, television
So, I am back in my ancestral home – which has been in the family since the turn of the century (alright the last one). My mother’s decoration style is more Tate Modern than Laura Ashley, which means it has a twist of art installation about it. This part of greater London is as rural [...]
