{"id":2592,"date":"2002-06-29T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2002-06-29T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2002-06-29T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2002-06-29T18:13:39","slug":"today-in-bullet-pointswitnessed-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/today-in-bullet-pointswitnessed-a.htm","title":{"rendered":"Today in bullet points:Witnessed: a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in bullet points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Witnessed: a man in a smart suit, mid-forties, looking extremely uncomfortable and uncertain, holding a piece of blue A4 paper in front of his chest so that people could read it:<br \/><span class=\"quote\">Chichester Masonic Hall &#8211; open today<\/span><br \/>Which goes to show what a secretive organisation they are, as I didn&#8217;t even know there was a Masonic Hall in Chichester.<br \/>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blaisdell.com\/archives\/cat_masonic.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"in America\">a Masonic blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Witnessed: in Waterstone&#8217;s bookshop, a man (clearly not staff) walking around the store and carefully straightening each pile of books, and then playing a short &quot;tune&quot; by beating out a rhythm on the tops and sides of the piles. OCD? Tourettes?<\/li>\n<li>Chichester was alive today (pun intended) as artists prepared for the Chi Alive street theatre day. Looked interesting, but I couldn&#8217;t stop as I was determined to get to Brighton<\/li>\n<li>Rail chaos this morning due to a suspicious fatality on the line at Havant &#8211; apparently there had been no trains for five hours. I caught a train that was running nearly 90 minutes late.<\/li>\n<li>Brighton was absolutely full of people. It&#8217;s such a fascinating and cosmopolitan place, with people of every type that you could imagine, and a few that you couldn&#8217;t. But I still don&#8217;t think I could live there &#8211; it&#8217;s too large and anonymous, and I like the fact that walking around Chichester, I&#8217;m bound to bump into someone I know. I prefer to keep Brighton as a special treat, a place to visit, savour and return to another day.<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s shopping: four CDs (Quantic [my first Q &#8211; yay!], The Caretaker, Plaid and a Ninja Cuts compilation), greetings cards, a gift for sis-not-in-law, another for Sarah, new shot glasses, some paperbacks (watch the current reading list over the next couple of weeks), a bath mat, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lush.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"me? go to Brighton and not visit Lush? unthinkable!\">Lush<\/a> products and, at last, a new light for my kitchen &#8211; a triple spot array, which should look a lot nicer than the current ugly-but-effective fluorescent tube.<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s frustration: inadequate banking hours &#8211; even in Brighton, the Barclays branch closes at 12.30. Why??<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s highlight: a very relaxing lunch in the Bamboo Bar in North Laine, enjoying good food and beer on a sun-drenched balcony overlooking the crowded street below.<\/li>\n<li>I must have been radiating contentment on the way home &#8211; two attractive women sat opposite me on the train, and both struck up (light) conversation totally unprompted. Which was nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in bullet points: Witnessed: a man in a smart suit, mid-forties, looking extremely uncomfortable and uncertain, holding a piece of blue A4 paper in front of his chest so that people could read it:Chichester Masonic Hall &#8211; open todayWhich goes to show what a secretive organisation they are, as I didn&#8217;t even know there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}