http://www.less-is-more.co.uk An Englishman with too much free time writes words. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:56:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Graham, for the first time in the last couple of days, had things perfectly in hand. He still had enough money to tide him over until he got paid the next day, and decided to have a quiet night in not doing a lot. First, of course, he needed somewhere ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/13/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-twelve/ Graham did take the bus from wherever he was in Rotterdam to Rotterdam train station, and was also impressed with the efficient Dutch public transport. He also took the train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam, and was amazed that such a journey only took half an hour. He also had the ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/12/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-eleven/ In another way, Graham was also running out of time. Not at all reassured by her talks with his manager, Miranda moved onto more direct enquiries. She logged onto her computer, searched Google for the Arlington Row Hotel, and found three different hotels. Two of them denied that there was ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/10/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-ten/ Graham wouldn’t have believed what had happened either, nor would he have believed what hadn’t happened. In fact, he wouldn’t even know what had happened, because it had turned out the Bob Marley was a coffeeshop. He remembered a trip to the zoo he had made when was in school. It ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/08/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-nine/ “Bit much to get used to”, smirked Dave, pulling his seat forward to let Graham out. Graham said nothing, being quite thankful for all the help he’d been given, but still not happy about being half-deafened for the sake of hearing 50 Cent played at thirty times the pain threshold. ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/08/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-eight/ [caption id="attachment_168" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Giant Chickens. That is all."][/caption] http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/07/giant-chickens/ You know, I've been looking solidly for three years for one of these: And the only sign of one I've seen since I found on in 2005... was when I was looking through the archives of my old LiveJournal, and found that picture... in the entry saying I couldn't find one. Brilliant ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/07/very-annoying/ Miranda sighed. It had only been one evening, but the house already seemed too empty without Graham there. She hoped he was having fun, and taking advantage of lots of opportunities. She had tried calling him the night before, but his phone apparently had no signal. Rather unusual, but she ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/06/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-seven/ And, inevitably, the morning after would come. This was subtly altered by the exact events of the night before – whether glasses of water were drunk, if he had been sick, what take-away had been ordered – but since these, as mentioned, might as well have happened when he was ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/05/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-six/ Fifteen minutes passed, and still no opportunity presented to retrieve the suitcase. While Graham would have found it an interesting conversation with Miranda about career prospects under normal circumstances, the fact was that Graham didn't have his career in mind. What he did have in mind was trying to travel ... http://www.less-is-more.co.uk/2008/11/05/around-in-circles-for-eighty-days-part-five/