Bleak House

[caddyman]

Today we have an 'Awayday' from work.

In Stratford, east London: the only place on the planet where the local pound shop employs security guards. How much pilfering (in tonnes) to you have to prevent at £1 an item to justify employing a couple of security guards?

We are taking a tour of the Olympic sites. Given that we are about 8 months into the relevant 6 year development programme, I expect this to be a largely conceptual experience. My walkman is fully charged; I shall listen to a lot of Pink Floyd especially Wish You Were Here which seems to highlight the pathos of industrial decay quite nicely. I shall also take my camera, though I haven't got used to the idea of taking random free photos yet and will probably not use it. I might take my sonic screwdriver, too. I will probably use that.

I hope the coach is comfy and I can get some sleep.

I'm bored already and I haven't even got dressed yet, much less left for this great adventure.

And it's raining.

Comments

[ribble.livejournal.com]

Is it going to be like one of those God awful school trips where you spend three hours getting to Ludlow castle; to spend an hour running around it's grounds and generally causing more ruin than 200 years could bestow and then back home with the fiver your mother gave you spent on tapes in Woolworths?

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I was telling maleghast the other week about my experiences of learning the lyrics to 'Wish You Were Here'.

It was in Peru; myself and a couple of the other girls (possibly unwisely) announced that we didn't know the song- so the boys wrote the words on a whiteboard, and we spent about 3 hours that night being conducted at (and shouted at if we tried to stop), until we had LEARNT THE WORDS.

[romney.livejournal.com]

So, so to get you involved in the project they drive you round in circles until you reach a derelict brownfield site where no work had yet started, other than the erection of a perimeter fence and guard-towers with searchlights.

Upon disembarking, you are told that the foundations of the first Olympic facility have to be excavated by year end, then are presented with a pick or shovel and told to get digging.

Knew this reshuffle would find a practical use for your department.

See you in 2012