09.26
Monasterio Nuestra Senora De Los Angeles (Monjas Dominicas), Sant Cugat, Spain.
Cranescape…
Rising at 06.22.
Sheets are at the end of the bed, suitcases at the bottom of the stairs. Today is the beginning of a new chapter in The Happy Gigster’s Guide: How To Fly Cheerfully When The Recommended Check-In Is Four Hours And You Can’t Carry On Much Fun Stuff At All. This is a chapter currently unwritten. I know the brief guide: abandon Cattle Class & fly Business wherever possible. But that, for most of us, is not an option.
10.16 Final closing of the suitcase…
… the carry-on wheelie now for checking in the hold instead of carrying-on…
… and computer bag pressed into full service as the only permissible onboard item…
… with about-to-be-closed computer…
20.44 Bredonborough.
A straightforward check-in but with an excess baggage charge, a result of the new regulations, of 60 euros. A farewell coffee with Hernan.
During the flight, a Grandmother in the window-seat talked non-stop to her daughter for 2 on-board hours. She also carried a bottle of water, although no liquids were allowed. A middle-aged man brought on his wheelie, although the maximum carry-on size for the single allowed-item was computer-case. What?
No problem at Heathrow with our baggage-arrival. But many, many bags were set out & waiting all around the claim area of Terminal Two. The Terminal itself was almost empty.
Driving home from London, a powerful & unusual black cloud was hovering between Warwick & Evesham.
21.32 An e-flurry has revealed that a project will not be as I had wished it to be. The professional life of the musician, once again, is directly contrary to the life of the musician; and antithetical to its interests. That this is so, is not novel information for me; neither is it news, that I am ill-cast in my professional life. What this seems to suggest is, that I accept what is possible and what is not, and act accordingly.
Home with the Minx. Yippee!
"How we hold our pick is how we organise our life."
