No Place Like Home
Sep. 19th, 2005 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanBeing in London, briefly, for a short trial, has brought home to me that I'm uncomfortably rootless at the moment. I think feeling a sentimental rush of familiarity and love for the concourse of Victoria Station as I came in on the Gatwick Express on Saturday morning can be put down to having to set the alarm for 4.30 to catch the red-eye (incidental side-memo to self: just because you live at one end of the airport runway, it does not necessarily follow that you can easily walk to the terminal with your bag packed with heavy files and the like...). But I went up to Primrose Hill just now to see if any mail had escaped the re-direction net and was slightly taken aback by the extent a month away, and not having the flat to return to, can generate enormous home-sickness.
Frankie has been known to accuse me of being a vagabond, and to some extent I am. But I don't think I like this feeling.
Not that I have any regrets about what I'm doing of course, and actually I did yesterday go and see my mother, so I have been to the one place that remains more "home" than anywhere else this weekend. But I don't belong in Jersey yet, and I don't enjoy feeling like a stranger in my own city.
Still, for a few days I have access to my books. Shame I have a trial on and have to spend the time reading witness statements really.
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Date: 2005-09-20 08:29 pm (UTC)Am on a Flashman binge at the moment though. Can't think why it's taken me till now to read them.
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Date: 2005-09-21 08:43 am (UTC)I hadn't heard of him till last night and now this is the third reference since then. The Universe must be trying to tell me something...
Btw, good to hear from you. Have been missing you. :)
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Date: 2005-09-20 02:02 pm (UTC)(Sorry, were you not expecting a practical answer)
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Date: 2005-09-20 02:26 pm (UTC):)
except today, when I was able to only comein in the afetrnoon, and finish some music that's been waiting.
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Date: 2005-09-20 08:21 pm (UTC)For some reason, that was an unbelievably complicated sentence to write. I hope you follow.
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Date: 2005-09-20 08:28 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, I was very reluctant to get up from my comfortable Jersey bed Saturday morning. However I suspect that had more to do with it being 4.30...
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Date: 2005-09-20 08:34 pm (UTC)Can I just say, since you seem to be 'round and not getting this five days from now, that I found this post very, um, resonant - and have been following this whole Jersey adventure of yours with great interest.
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