10 April 2006
The sun shines in my eyes, making me blink and squint. In the laptop screen I can see my reflection - my hands, face and cleavage glow white in the light, standing out against the black of my clothes. The countryside outside the window speeds past - all hills and streams and gambolling lambs. I'd forgotten what scenery like this looked like. Buildings and buses, chimneys and concrete are my daily view.
I don't know where I am. I think I might be somewhere in the Lake District, but there aren't any recognisable landmarks or signs to give me a clue.
A new development scars the landscape and jolts me out of my bucolic reverie.
I check my phone - there's a signal again, so I hit refresh on the browser and through the magic of technology, my emails appear.
Ah, an announcement. We're in Penrith.
I gotta know what "bucolic" means?
Bucolic = rural, pastoral, rustic, country
As I look out of my office window all I can see is the IT block, surounded by trees with a lawn between me and it and grey skies. Ah the delights of Corby.
My office has quite a nice view, really.
No time to drop into the Penrith tea rooms and ask for “the finest wines known to humanity”?
“the finest wines known to humanity”
... and some cake!
From my office window I can see another new office block's before it's skinned in glass.
Penrith is perfect for booze. The old Railway Inn opposite the station has seen many hours of action from me.
Chin chin.
It's always the start of heading 'home' for us... driving up the motorway and watching the landscape rise and roll away into the clouds.
I had a similar weekend, in Snowdonia, taking beautiful landscapes with my cameraphone and then searching for a signal in order to blog them, and then forgetting all about them later on once I started drinking.
It was a great weekend though.
Thanks Mike! I feel a bit of a dunce having to ask! But I'm not sure the delights of Corby compare to the Wakefield Europort!? I have been living in hotels for longer than I care to remember.
And why do they have "erotic movies", am I only the only person that thinks this is wrong!
Happy easter.
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