Note to Self:

Don’t start a new blog just before loosing internet connection!

Ah well, it’s up and running now so hopefully so will this…

From Above

So as I indicated I’m leaving my current home. I’ve been here 6 years: 4 as a student and 2 as an employee of the University.

Tonight I had my work leaving do – which I didn’t really want, but felt obliged to have – and was slightly odd because I don’t actually leave until Friday! It was really lovely, and actually was what I wanted in the evening – a few drinks, some good conversations, a nice meal and not too many goodbyes (yet!)

On the way home, I walked to the station with a couple of my colleagues and they suggested that there was no way I could leave without going on the wheel that’s been set up in the city centre. When it was put up I (amongst other people) thought it a slightly odd place to put the wheel – essentially in the bottom of a valley, and I couldn’t believe that you could get a particularly good view of anything from there. However, I agreed that it was probably something that I should go on, so we paid our money and got on.

Now during my time here I’ve lived in a number of high up places – my halls of residence was a 12 floor tower and I lived on the 11th floor, my second student house was on top of one of the seven hills, my current lodgings is on the hill side of another hill – so I’ve seen this city from up above many times, but this was amazing. You could see for miles and miles, I could see places that I’ve known for ever in a completely different light. In some ways being so high up and moving at the same time was quite disorienting and I was often getting mistaken with exactly what we were looking at but my colleagues corrected me and pointed out things I’d never even spotted before. It certainly was a great way to see this place before I left it.

Sadly I had no camera but I’ll try to see if I can get some pictures of the wheel up here at some point!

Once upon a time…

Once upon a time there was a blog where I wrote some thoughtful things and some interesting things, but you’d never find them for the teenage angst that generally surrounded them. I’m about to move cities for the second time in my life, I’m pursuing a dream that I’ve had for at least 3 years, at the end of it I might even have to call myself a professional. As such I thought I’d start a new blog, so I can chronicle my journey through returning to study, finding my feet in a new place and life in general.

It would be a pleasure to share these ordinary streets with you…