I was pretty tired travelling up on the train; I had been irritable and frustrated as
I must say despite the appauling service and extortionate prices I do enjoy travelling on trains occasionally as it gives one the opportunity to reflect on things and takes you somewhere out of the ordinary where you only have yourself to rely on - no car to retreat to for safety, just yourself in a different place. I hope this makes sense to people.
Monday
Had the first day of training, which has been interesting - despite others' comments about it being not much more than reflecting what we say back at us and some common sense thrown in for good measure. I feel that probably most importantly it is just a chance to sit back and make people think about things for three days and be paid for it. That in itself is probably quite invaluable.
At lunchtime I managed to grab a phone and call
I am sat in the lovely hotel room which is walking distance from Stephenson House - the central offices of Logica in London where we are having our training (the other courses have all been in another office but this one is much nicer). I am typing this up on the laptop sitting at a plush desk while the air conditioning thankfully cools my back and neck before I meet Adrian in the reception in ten minutes to go out somewhere. He tells me his arrangement to meet his friend have fallen through but we're still going to go out and have a good laugh I expect :)
One of the most interesting things I noticed about the hotel room was that the very large bed has three sets of pillows...?? Sounds like someone warned them I was coming ;)
Anyway I shall save this and get down to reception now. I don't think I'm going to be able to post this today as internet access from the hotel is prohibitively expensive and *curses* I didn't bring a floppy disk to copy it onto to post tomorrow.
Oof. Here I am back from the first night out. Not a big problem - spend 10 quid in the end, got quite drunk enough (
Well I think it's about time for beddie byes. Night night.