Saturday, January 12, 2013

DAY HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR - random bits l


Two have left, to return the following Monday – four new worker boys registered today; two regulars here since yesterday. (Great to populate the hotel – January IS slow for business, it is true – however, I take exception to the gunk these guys track up and down the stairs, and the smudges left along the walls. (How can we make this win-win? Hhmm.)


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1- helped prepare a Singles Weekend poster and registration form, to be held here at the Richmoor Hotel in February – just like it had been in November when I first showed up to fall in love with Weymouth. (In fact, the cover photo was taken on that occasion.) It is my job to notify the unofficial UK LDS singles website to have it included:  A Murder Mystery Crime Drama Weekend.

2- one-of-a-kind pink car, obviously parked outside a repair shop – a woman off to the side, wearing a shirt the exact color as the car, chatting to what appeared to be the mechanic. I asked her if it was her car, (yes, it was) and how would she feel about standing next to it to so I could take their mutual pink picture. (No, she definitely did not like that idea, and quickly moved out of shooting range.) Shucks, it would have made for such a great shot, what with the juxtaposition of the colors and all. Nobody would have known her from Eve, and besides that, quite honestly, you wouldn’t have been able to see her face clearly anyway. Too bad.

3- vestiges of the Olympics – Mandeville (mascot for the Paralympics) guarding over the Weymouth train station (not a place I’ve spent a whole lot of time – so far – but I pass it every time I walk to Aldi)

4- travel office – like the ones who book their groups into our hotel (These shops, and the tours they offer are very common in England. I first noticed them in Grimsby – it seemed that in town such travel shops were practically like every fifth store or something. I know Murdock Travel and others do tours, but I have always thought of them as major time and financial investments, and so had not paid a whole lot of attention. The tours here range from 2-4 days, are very reasonably priced, and take you any number of places, near and far – in the UK and abroad {‘course ‘abroad’ here is a LOT closer than ‘abroad’ there}, all arrangements having been made for your traveling enjoyment and convenience.)