by dodgyhoodoo on November 15, 2013, no comments
… though it’s felt like a close thing a few times. Anyone who’s done the intensive version of the Cambridge CELTA course will understand why… It’s hard to believe there’s only a week of this left. Three weeks ago I’d never taught a class in my life; yesterday I honestly felt like I belonged in […]
by dodgyhoodoo on September 17, 2013, one comment
In the last few days: – Big wedding do on Saturday with loads of E’s family – check – Sunday morning dog-meets-face incident, claret everywhere – check – “Just in case” tetanus shot this morning – check – Studio flat in Brighton just waiting for the final nod from the agency – check – Properly […]
by dodgyhoodoo on September 9, 2013, 3 comments
Well, I’m back. (Come on, like I wasn’t going to go there…) I don’t think it’s properly hit me yet – the whole “back in the UK, no permanent home, need to find work” thing. Probably because looking for a place in Brighton doesn’t feel so very different to trying to find a host in […]
by dodgyhoodoo on July 11, 2013, no comments
So by the time you read this I’ll be in Seattle. I took the Empire Builder from St Paul / Minneapolis after CONvergence – it was one of the long-distance train journeys I absolutely had to take while I was out here. The train left Chicago 45 minutes late. Then the engine that provided electricity […]
by dodgyhoodoo on July 3, 2013, no comments
Another day, another Greyhound station. And I still aten’t ded. So I didn’t get around to posting anything about New Orleans yet. Put it down to a slowly-broiling brainpan, I think I was beyond my safe operating limits there… Great place, but I’m very glad to have been in the cooler climes of Chicago for […]
by dodgyhoodoo on June 21, 2013, no comments
I never did take that trolley tour… As usual I decided to walk instead, and see where I ended up. Downtown Savannah’s really not that big, so where I ended up was pretty much everywhere at one point or another. My usual walk-for-hours schtick wasn’t going to work here, though. Savannah’s a slow-moving town because […]
by dodgyhoodoo on June 19, 2013, no comments
Got the Greyhound down to Washington DC on Thursday with a definite sense of trepidation. The weather forecast for that afternoon was for strong thunderstorms and flash floods – turned out I missed this by about 20 minutes, that’s how quickly the weather front in question was travelling. Incessant wall of rain one minute, dry […]
by dodgyhoodoo on June 15, 2013, no comments
There’s traffic signs all around New York and Washington DC that make me wish London had something similar. For example: – New York: Cyclists must always yield to pedestrians – New York: Don’t block the box! Fine plus 2 points (not sure anyone in London even knows what a box junction is, beyond pretty yellow […]
by dodgyhoodoo on June 12, 2013, 2 comments
And then the cab driver says, “It gets worse, that manticore was from Queens!” … What do you mean, what the hell am I talking about? Haven’t you been following – ah yes, you obviously haven’t been reading the blog posts I haven’t gotten around to writing yet. My bad. So I’m off and away, […]
by dodgyhoodoo on April 12, 2013, no comments
So yeah. Somehow it’s been two weeks since my last day at the old day job. I’ve got 8 years’ worth of clutter to purge from my flat, a new love in my life, and less than 8 weeks till I Go On An Adventure. Possibly By Mistake. Hit It… (At some poin…