Home now, with leads aplenty, I’ve added pictures from phone and camera to the interweb, for your viewing pleasure. To whet your appetite, there’s a rather painterly shot of a crane in Leeds. Moving on, pictures of the Parkgate-to-Chester leg of my main walk are in a set on Flickr. And in another set, images [...]
Posts Tagged ‘orbital2008’
Now with added photos…
Posted in Memory, tagged chester, eastercon, orbital2008, parkgate, walkinghometo50 on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Orbiting ‘Orbital’
Posted in sidetrips, tagged charles stross, eastercon, edwardian, heathrow, orbital2008 on March 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A brief walk around the hotel where Orbital is happening, our home for four days: the Radisson Edwardian at Heathrow. This is not the first time we have stayed here – 17 years ago, we spend the night in this place, before Jen went to Leningrad for five months (to return weighing five stone). We [...]
Transorbital: Parkgate to Chester
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged chester, easter, eastercon, heron, orbital2008, parkgate, theology, transgender on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m writing this on Easter Saturday, an in-between-time in the Christian calendar, G-d’s absence made official for a day. I’m in a hotel at Heathrow, a place that exists mainly to be part of the way to other places; sited just within the M25, the imposed city boundary explored by Iain Sinclair in his book [...]