Movin' on up, nothing can stop me

[thousandsofcandles]

I was awake early this morning (despite a late night) and couldn't settle myself so I headed out for a walk. I ended up walking the two mile up to Tower Bridge. It took me just over 45 minutes so I was really pleased with that. I grabbed a venti gingerbread latte and a pain au chocolat from a Starbucks and sat watching the river for a while, sitting back as the city woke up around me.

I wasn't looking forward to the walk back and did think about getting public transport back. But that would have involved people in close proximity and we're in a pandemic so... no. I grabbed another coffee for the walk back and it took me just over an hour, a little slower because I was tired.

I was a bit chilled when I got home, so took a nice long shower which was heavenly.

The day has basically been spent on the couch, in a warm comfortable nest of blankets, with my cat Jess asleep and purring on my lap. We have an Autumn Glow candle burning

Earthy leaves swirl with golden sunlight and woody patchouli—like a walk through the forest in autumn'.

And watching lots of Star Trek: Enterprise.

I fell in love with Star Trek after watching the movie with Chris Pine, and I watched Discovery and Picard as they aired. I've never gone back and actually watched all the TV shows and I know I've missed references in the shows and not known who characters were. Last night I googled to see if there was a recommended order of watching the shows or if it was just in airing order - TOS, TNG, DS9 etc. I found The Star Trek Chronology Project and it lists the shows/episodes/movies in internal chronological order - how fucking cool is that?

I figure if I'm going to be geeky, I may as well be the utter most level of geeky that I can be. Right?

I've watched the first 11 episodes so far and I'm enjoying it! I think my favourite characters are Archer, Reed and Trip. I'm having slashy feels about them as well - Archer/Reed, Archer/Trip and Reed/Trip, although I think Archer/Trip might be winning.

But I'm not going to even look at AO3 to see what's around until I've seen more, I don't want to go spoiling myself. And how hilarious is that? The show's like 20 years old but I don't want to spoil myself for it! haha

Although I am finding I want icons of those three. Might have to see what I can find around Dreamwidth later tonight

I don't like T'Pol, but then I generally find Vulcans annoying. Dr Phlox is very entertaining, I could watch a whole show about him. But I'm finding the rest of the characters kind of fade into the background, they're a bit boring.

My timer has just gone off to tell me my dinner should be done cooking - a very grown up fishfingers, chips and peas - so I'm going to finish up in the kitchen and press play on 1x12!

Comments

[annofowlshire]

Oh, how funny. The Tower Bridge is “my” bridge. We live in Wapping (at least for 2 more days!).

[thousandsofcandles]

What a small world - I'm down in Peckham.
Wapping to the middle of nowhere is going to be a huge culture shift for you, wow!

[annofowlshire]

Husband and I also both grew up in semi-rural/small town environments, so it’s not totally alien to us. I think London in 2020 will help ease the shift since basically we’ve lived in a box surrounded by thousands and thousands of people and amenities and unable to interact with any of them for several months now.

So instead, there will be trees.

I assume at some point we’ll try to get involved in village life, but what with Covid carrying on we anticipate it to take about a year longer than we would have normally hoped for.

[thousandsofcandles]

I grew up in a small town in Essex, and moving to London for school was a huge change for me. I spent my first year at university wanting nothing more than to go home... and when I went home that first summer, I missed London like crazy, missed having everything rightthere. I've been here ever since and can't imagine leaving.

[annofowlshire]

The problem we’ve had is that we need both urban and countryside. We’ve found living in London that we’ve just never been able to get the balance right—too much faff to get out of the city, and there’s always so much going on here we didn’t want to miss!—so we’re reversing it to living in the big green and then taking breaks to the city and maybe that will be a more balanced arrangement.

We’ve set a “check point” in about 10 years when our son is transitioning from primary to secondary school if we feel it was a huge mistake and want to go back to city living XD

But we hope it won’t be.

[thousandsofcandles]

I get that. There's quite a few parks around me - and there's always Hyde and Regents if I need to feel like I'm not in a city. It only takes me a couple of hours to get to my parents if I need to properly get out to the country - one bus to Liverpool St (or just over an hours walk) and then one train out.

Maybe it'll change as I get older, who knows!