Virtual Office Monday 27th July

[byslantedlight]

Back to work... It was a nice weekend though, despite lots of rain yesterday. I tried to keep off the computer a bit, and give my eyes a break, but they're still complaining a bit now - and I've not even started the day's work yet. Eeep! The weekend looked like this though...

There was a lavender farm...
And a wee walk through a peaceful valley...
...until I found a neolithic longbarrow...

It was a lovely sunny day on Saturday too - perfect for the escape!

Sunday was grey and rain, rain, rain, but that was actually good too, cos I read, and cleaned and actually baked too - blackcurrant flapjack, which worked out so much better than I'd hoped! Someone gave me a load of blackcurrants, which I've never been mad on, but actually I think I could be converted... *g*

But now it's Monday, and there must be work... I'd quite like there to be some Pros too - I'm reading Larton again, as my bed-time book, and eyeing my dvds, and thinking about the lads... CI5 lads, and Victorian lads, and just... lads. *g* Maybe I should watch an ep tonight... what ep should I watch...? Suggestions please - it's so hard to choose otherwise! *g*

Today's work
Job 1 pgs 1-5 - Oh good. It's one of those assignments where I'm basically translating and rewriting the paper, not proofreading at all... *headdesk*
Job 1 pgs 6-10
Job 1 pgs 11-15
Job 1 pgs 16-19

Job 1 pgs 1-5
Job 1 pgs 6-10
Job 1 pgs 11-15
Job 1 pgs 16-20

Fiddle practice
Hack track mile - No. Rats.
Writing - No. Much rats.

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

That looks lovely! Why, oh why must we go back to the salt mines come Monday?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was rather lovely - I could have done with a week or two of it! Stoopid salt mines... *sighs*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

A whole farm-full of lavender, that must have smelled amazing! If only there were such a thing as rose-farms :-) ( I love the scent of roses even more). And a neolithic barrow. Wow.

I sometimes like to remind myself how almost unimaginable our way of life would seem to people of that era, and wonder if our own imaginations fall just as far short if we in turn try to dream up how people might be living in the future, after a similar lapse of time ... but I suspect that things will never be quite so unimaginable again, if only because we are now used to the idea that things change and that cultures and technologies can change radically. If we don't fuck up the planet beyond habitability ...

Good luck with work, walk and writing!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The lavender smelled lovely... and there was roses too! That smelled! It was a separate little garden, and there were other flowers too, but the roses were lovely. I'd be very surprised if there weren't rose farms somewhere though - all those red ones have to come from somewhere (okay, it's probably Kenya, isn't it - and they've probably taken the smell out...)

Yes! to imaginings like that! I've been thinking that just about the Victorians, because they were actually so very very like us already in so many ways - right down to advertising and all sorts. They imagined telephones - but could they imagine telephones without wires? And mobile phones? And mobile phones connected to the internet? And the internet to start with? Back when I'm not even sure how many sets of encyclopaedia were around? Or books in general, even... Go back to more people than not being unable to read and write - that's a completely different view of the world even there...

I dunno though - I reckon the reason we can't really imagine the future isn't because it's so amazingly different (though of course it is) but because each big change is made up of so so many tiny little steps and changes. And we have to get used to things before we can start thinking about the possibility of changing them... I wonder if there's only so far we can go with our imaginations (blasphemy!) in some things - what does science fiction imagine now? Mostly, I think, the same thing it's been imagining since SF started. Something, somewhere has to spark off an idea that we've not had yet, based on our acceptance and understanding of what we already have - and we might have to wait until some of the ideas we have had catch up to the acceptance-of-normal in our brains, before we can make the next jump... Or maybe it's just me that lacks imagination. *g*

[gvenanne.livejournal.com]

Your escape looks really great! Lavender is so beautiful... And there is a sheep! In the valley. Is there some track or did you just walk so... through wild grass?
And this neolithic longbarrow does it just stand open?! What if someone walks in there and gets... frightened? *g*
I vote for lads in the country! ;)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I do like a nice lavender farm... *g* I've been to ones that smell too too sweet, but this one was just right... Maybe I was there at the right time of year!

I was actually looking for the longbarrow, and there was a path signposted from the bottom of the valley, so I followed that. But it wasn't a path path, just the part of the field that you had to walk across to get to the next gap in the hedge or styal or whatever... *g*

The longbarrow had been excavated years ago - actually by the chap who lived at the NT property where I volunteer! - and rebuilt a bit after that. There'd been bones there, apparently, but of course they were taken away. There was another couple who'd also gone to see the barrow, just ahead of me - very odd, it was actually a fairly peaceful, empty area! - and we chatted a bit. The woman had gone down part way, but said she didn't like the feel of it and came back. I didn't feel anything odd in there - but I rarely do! - and went all the way to the end. Actually there was a wee memorial there for a local guy who'd died, and had apparently used to play in the barrow when he was a little boy...

Eep - do you mean "Weekend in the Country"? That's one of my least favourite eps (I'm not sure why, I just... I'm not keen). I shall pretend you mean something else... hmmn, maybe there's another ep with the lads in the country... *thinks hard*...

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the longbarrow looks interesting! Do you go all the way in? And all your scenes make me, well, not homesick since it's not my home, but something really like.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was a very cool longbarrow! I did go all the way in! You had to crouch most of the way, though it opened up after the first bit of tunnel. There were a couple of side niches along the way, and the tunnel was just wide enough for me to get through without having to breathe in or squish! The bloke of the couple I met up there didn't go in though - he wouldn't have fitted at all, though he wasn't hugely portly. Just... quite comfortable. *g*

not homesick since it's not my home
Maybe it once was, in a previous life, and it's calling to you... for at least your next visit! *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Duh, lj ate my comment again...

I love the Longbarrow, and going inside, how cool!!

We watched Backtrack because of Marge, and Not a very civil civil servant and another Ep from Season two with one word and B....

But Larton is wonderful, too!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I had a bit of lj-oddness yesterday, they must have been fixing up work and things again...

The longbarrow was fab - I do like things like that. I shall go in search of more! *g*

Oh, and Backtrack! I didn't end up watching an ep in the end, had to finish that big job, but I started a Round Robin story at discoveredinalj yesterday, and it's fun to see people joining in. Poor Doyle doesn't know who he is, and Bodie's on the rampage... *vbg*