Three Posts Make a Thing

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Despite SouthEastern, Saturday was a good day out in Gravesend, in which three hours turns out to be about right to wander around. I must investigate the Tilbury ferry and potential for Essex escapes.

Trivia: Gravesend has the oldest surviving metal pier in the world - although slapping a restaurant on top on it doesn't necessarily show it off at its best. Especially as it blocks the upriver view.

I took a photo of the view of the Heritage Quarter which appeared at first glance to be black and white, but for the splashes of yellow and blue. Very odd, and not manipulated in Photoshop.

Found the statue of Pocohontas.

I had a chat with the Julian Graves shop assistant, and came away content with the world - although she appears not to have given me the fifty per cent discount announced in the window. Bum.



2
Autumn is distinctly with us, and I had half an hour wandering around the campus on the hill (aka the European campus) looking for arboreal evidence of this. I was also trying to work out whether I found the bit where the railway used to be, but I'm not sure.

The labyrinth is causing some controversy, and no one is prepared to say how much it cost (at least two academics would be a good estimate). I had a wander around it, and am pondering whether my photo should go in my Mazes set, or whether I need to create on for Labyrinths.

Someone the other day predictably confused it with the movie, and curiously thinks precisely the same song that shows they cast the wrong period of David Bowie (post-Thin White Duke, pre-Tin Machine) is great. (Yanno, the one that rhymes who do/you do/voodoo. Puhlease.)

3
At the risk of (re)entering a a world of pain I ordered two Americanos in the Carbuncle café. On neither occasion was I offered milk. Apparently most efficient and human thing is to treat them like a robot going through a programme and not specify you don't want milk - black coffees being ordered provokes an offer of milk. Someone else will have to see what happens if you order a white Americano.

Comments

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Not a maze. A labyrinth. I'd rather have a maze. Another view:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/2934819350/)

It's a seven circuit design in the medieval four fold style with topological symmetry.

http://www.haywood-landscapes.co.uk/labyrinth_mazes/university_of_kent_labyrinth.htm

It's learning enhancing bollocks, wouldn't you know

http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/ced/themes/labyrinth/index.html

Wouldn't you know - next week is Labyrinth Week!

http://www.kent.ac.uk/student/campus.html?id=labweek.txt

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

My, they kept that quiet; I'd heard nothing about it at all. I think, though, I shall dodge Labyrinth Week and go see it quietly one morning before class.

By the way, I'm on campus tomorrow afternoon for Bibliographical Research Methods at 6 p.m. and will doubtless be endeavouring to order coffee beforehand.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

It has had media coverage - although I stumbled not quite literally across it in late August, maybe early September.

I have a social at 6pm I need to be at; campus will have to wait until 9.20. This Templeman Monday thing is not working.