Comments on: There’s That Voice Again

By: Richard P

Richard P — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:55:47 +0000

The people demand you do a travel-blog of Seoul………

(at least… I do)

By: belly

belly — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:42:24 +0000

the great dankness (no capitals!) is an excellent name for hornsea. kinda grand and yet miserable. like it.
from now on you shall be known as Sir Cowdung of the great dankness.
quality title, i’m sure you’ll agree!!!

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:20 +0000

No word on when I venture back to The Great Dankness – but I’ll let you know.

Or, just follow the screaming.

By: Katja

Katja — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:31:13 +0000

[quote]You not driving like an Italian maniac (not *really* driving like one) still gives you the leeway to drive like you’re trying to re-enact the Endor speeder bike scene out of Return Of The Jedi.[/quote]

Yes. Is that a problem? *looks innocent*

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:54:42 +0000

I will indeed come and visit. You betcha. Although we have a few things to thrash out first – like that context-specific definition of that sticky word “really”.

You not driving like an Italian maniac (not *really* driving like one) still gives you the leeway to drive like you’re trying to re-enact the Endor speeder bike scene out of Return Of The Jedi.

ps. I know. I’ve popped by. And will stop lurking and start commenting. Eeee, thee’s having fun, lass.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:51:16 +0000

I did hit 40, yes. But I hit it with such force that I rebounded back into my late 30s.

This is why in life, momentum is *everything*.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:50:02 +0000

I do.

I haven’t taken you up on your kind invitation before now because….it would have felt fraudulent. On the whole I’ve been a blogger, not a fiction writer. But I’m rebalancing, and when the scales have tipped, I’ll feel happier about joining in.

So – yup.

By: Katja

Katja — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:11:32 +0000

Travel plans should definitely include a trip to Salento. I promise I don’t *really* drive like a maniac. Well, OK, not like an *Italian* maniac, anyway. That would be just ridiculous.

ps – I’m at yet another new blog *looks up*. I’m getting as bad as you are …

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Short term is the next couple of months, while my mother is in rehab here. I’m going to visit the Springs Reserve, which you once linked to btw as mentioned by someone else. Then I plan to do an extensive hotel crawl on the Strip whenever I get the chance.

Circumstances have dictated that I start with one today that I really didn’t need to see again, Circus Circus. Maybe that will end up being good, or maybe I’ll manage to substitute something else with wild animals. We’ll see.

Medium term starts, I hope, around March or April. That’s when I will be able to start making journeys to Europe for multiple weeks at a time.

The ultimate goal, of course, will be actually moving to London or, at least, being able to measure my Transatlantic time in months at a time. We shall see, we shall see, we shall see.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:15:25 +0000

Yes. Whisky, the great transporter across vast swathes of time and space, like a liquid TARDIS.

Actually, nail on head – I’m going to try out as many watering holes as I can, because that is what visitors do, and I want to try to feel more like a visitor, so York can reappear in front of my familiarity-addled eyes. Also, the pubs are some of the most spectacular sights in York. Restaurants, too.

I’ll never forget working in the Galtres Lodge restaurants as a filthy kitchen-monkey (and no doubt they remember me equally well)…and seeing, in the cellar, the remains of the Roman drain system pointing towards the Roman Bath pub. That’s York. Everyone knows something amazing, everywhere has something remarkable squirreled away behind the scenes…and you have to go round collecting it up then discarding what can’t be true – like assembling the bones of a saint.

Er, or something.