posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
I believe the following picture sums up what I planned to -and succeeded in- accomplishing with my Valentines weekend back in Bristol. Hope you like it, Tan.
Except in my case instead of 'rape in a bottle' Bud Light, I was drinking the wonderful, wonderful Bath Gem Ale. Also I'm not a cat.
And I don't feel bad about it at all
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posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
I am on the 6:30am train to London on Saturday and I haven't even started packing.
I'm in complete denial!
And because it's my last day at the beeb I have been asked to have a couple of drinks after work. I can only assume this means that I will be packing drunk (again!).
Literally anything is preventing me from thinking about it.
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posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
My passport is off getting its "you may stay here indefinitely" sticker in it. This is a process that could potentially take another five months.
As a result we have had to look domestically to use of the week and a bit of annual leave that expires at the end of March.
After an extremely scientific poll of workmates within shouting distance
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posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
I'm down to my last few days at the dear old beeb and also my last few days in Bristol.
Talk has turned to plans for what I will need in London, how we manage the alternate weekends, etc. You see, it all makes perfect sense in theory (like communism) but life keeps getting in the way.
Like how my first scheduled
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posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
News is starting to trickle out about my imminent departure.
People are being really, really nice about it. I thought it would have been all "Gordon WHO? Ohhh... The fat guy from South Africa."
But no!
Which is really nice because I have been feeling terribly guilty about the whole thing.
Excited... But guilty.
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posted by Gordon White filed under Bristol
The first resolution is to see one of these.
Aren't they just the freakiest looking fish ever?
You can snorkel with them in June/July on the Isle of Man. Which makes this resolution a sub-category of one of my main resolutions: lots of staycations.
(I know the Isle of Man isn't technically a staycation but it's more of one than a trip to
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