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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2004-08-01 09:15 pm

Holiday plans

[yr hmbl correspondent wonders where to get waterproof spray-on sunscreen, as he sits with blistered shoulders after spending Saturday on the beach at Bournemouth with [livejournal.com profile] hsenag et multi alii]

Work is starting to drag in the sort of way that suggests a holiday would be good, so I'm reckoning on taking two weeks off starting next Monday.

I'm hoping it's not going to be the sort of holiday that needs a holiday to recover from it; Saturday and Sunday in Nottingham with my old housemates and hopefully Chiara, Monday and Tuesday in Cardiff with [livejournal.com profile] papersky and [livejournal.com profile] zorinth, Wednesday probably lazily at home, then heading to Cambridge Thursday-ish, and Friday to Friday staying up on the coast near Middlesbrough on a walking holiday with my parents.

Is there still group activity in Cambridge on Thursday nights?

[identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com 2004-08-02 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I only knew the few lines at the end, I hadn't expected the poem (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem231.html) to be several pages long. The abuse is truly fine, especially the variously-blanching strong men, and the Lovecraftian nameless crimes of Coton.

Reapplication is what gets me every time, for the sun-cream is under the shelter on the fine dry sand at the top of the beach; once I've got there from the water, I'm sandy all over, and rubbing greasy, abrasively sandy lotion over already-sore skin is not among the delectable sensual experiences of the world. You sympathise with Miles Vorkosigan.