Thursday 6 October, 2005

Well, that was Orkney, and heaps fun it was. I feel awful, though. It was a moderately late night last night, and this morning we had to get up at 4.45am (no that wasn't a typo) to catch the boat back to the Scottish mainland. My colleague was a hero for doing all the driving – it was an automatic, which I find infuriating due to the fact that your left leg is left hanging around like a genetic deformation. I slept for most of the ferry back to Caithness and missed an apparently stonking sunrise.I did, however, get some good photos of Old Stuff in Orkney and the windfarm just south of Thurso, but can't be arsed putting any of them online. It was a lovely drive back south, with beautiful sunshine – just like the past couple of days in Orkney too, thankfully. Once back in Inverness at around 10am there was a full day's work still to do, and I went straight from there to an interesting couple of hours in Ottakars listening to four authors (including Kevin MacNeill and Alan Bissett, both of whom I really enjoyed while fighting off the tiredness), and now feel utterly wasted.

As such, neither can I be arsed checking whether bins got emptied or not. Off to bed…

Monday 3 October, 2005

I've just taken the bins out to the street, because they are full and it is bin day tomorrow. Or at least, I think it is. Nobody else's bins are out just now, but Tuesday has always been bin day… still, though, I'm worried that I looked a bit odd taking out the bins when actually it's Sunday that we get them emptied or something.Anyway, even if it is the day after or something, at least they are out. My main problem now is that the bin in my flat is full to bursting, and I have loads more stuff to throw out – and I can't do that because the wheelie bin outside, and my neighbour's, is full. So the leftover rice in my pan will either…
1. get "wine-trodden" into the bin under the sink.
2. get put in a black bag with a pile of other rubbish to fester.
3. sit in the pan going hard for a couple of days.

These are the sorts of dilemmas occupying my life at the moment.

I say a couple of days, because I am off to Orkney tomorrow for work. For a couple of days. That should be fun… a bunch of us from work are going overland rather than flying (that makes it sound so wild and dangerous!) and spending a goodly amount of time there to get lots of work done in the college. There will hopefully be some spare time to go see some Old Stuff.

Best go pack, and be sure to take my camera with me. And batteries.

Sunday 2 October, 2005

No news of any significance, I am afraid. I've just come online just now to change the blog to "October".I suppose the only major significant events in the past wee while is that I have bought the new Royksopp album (bit of a disappointment) and the new Sigur Ros album (bloody fantastic).

Church today was excellent. Twice.