Month: February 2002

Tonight’s plan:

• update my itsagoal.com team
• do my marketing homework that is due tomorrow (ugh)
• finish last night’s bottle of red (yay!)
• cook and eat
• listen to the new Zero7 AnotherLateNight CD

busy busy busy…

A lovely sunny morning – and the good news is that I get to work outside, for a while at least.

Norway link for today: Oslo rooftops, live.

Urf. I can barely move.
Happiness is cooking a fantastic roast dinner and enjoying the fruits of your labours with a glass of Portuguese red. (Waitrose have just started stocking a particularly splendid red from the Douro. The Portuguese are sensible enough to keep most of their best wines to themselves and export only the crap [remember Mateus? yuk] – but just occasionally something escapes. Altano is a good example of such an escapee.)

Rounded off a very lazy Sunday by walking round the city walls. This is one of the great pleasures of living in Chichester, and I’m lucky enough to live right next to the walls. I can climb the steps that are just twenty paces from my front door and take a gentle stroll around them. Today I walked all the way round in a clockwise direction – it takes about 30 minutes at a steady pace.
The walls walk is a great way to look over the city. Some parts back on to gardens that you can look down into (there seems to be a sense of pride in some, in others a sense of defeat). Some people stop on the walls and look brazenly in the windows of the properties below, most of which have the benefit of blinds or net curtains to keep out prying eyes.
Part of the walk passes through Priory Park which, as I have said before, is one of my favourite places. The view from the walls towards the Priory and Cathedral is one of the best in the city.
The great shame is that chunks of the walls are missing. Previous generations of Cicestrians haven’t cared well for the walls – most of the south-eastern section is missing now, and the old city gates are all gone. Certainly when you look at places where the walls are complete (like St Malo, for example) they are very imposing and lend a special character to the place.

There are some things I’d rather not know.

Whoa! (via LMG)

Norway today: well, actually, Oslo now.