One day in history
The following (mundane) entry was the one I submitted as part of the 'History Matters' blog to capture "a day in the life of..." ordinary UK citizens.
Alarm went off as usual at 5.40 am, although today I “snoozed" for another 10 minutes before getting up. By 6.15, having washed and dressed, I was in the car for the 10 minute drive to Horsham station. The temperature was a very mild 14 degrees. After buying my "usual" Earl Grey tea in the station cafe, I caught the 6.35 train to London Bridge. The train, as was becoming more commonplace, arrived on time, and I settled down for the 70 minute journey, on this 13 stop service. I spent the journey compiling this blog on my BlackBerry and preparing for the workshop that I was to attend. We arrived at London Bridge station at 7.48 and then I took the Jubilee line train to Canary Wharf and reached my desk at 8.15. A door to door journey time of 2 hours - pretty much as usual.
My "work" day started at 8.30 am with a breakfast meeting, a combination of HR compliance issues and sausage baguettes - one of which I enjoyed thoroughly.
The bulk of the day was taken up with a workshop held in 1 Canada Square, the UK's tallest building, which ended at 5.30 pm, so managed to get home by 7.30 pm.
The evening was a combination of workshop preparation, evening meal, and TV, before going to bed just before midnight, so that a good five hours sleep could be had before the next days events began again!!
2 comments:
I think that even though my blog for today proved to be slightly mundane, I also feel that there may have been some interesting aspects in your day, even if it was just seeing the radiant face of your wife?!!?!
x x x
Hi Sussex Blogger
I enjoyed reading your One Day in History post. You managed to capture the essence of what the National Archives were trying to do with the History Matters campaign which is why I’d like to invite you to take a look at a new website called “Map My London” which has just been launched by The Museum of London: (www.mapmylondon.com).
Map My London hopes to revolutionise the way the history of the city is gathered and displayed.
It would be great if you could take a look at the site and see if you would be interested in getting involved with uploading your impressions and memories of the capital, to help us create an emotional memory bank. We need people like you who commute into the City (well.. Canary Wharf!)and can share your experiences with the world. Also, we love the fact that you've run the Marathon and would love to hear first hand from you on what that was like - and how it compares to the NY Marathon.
You will be able to upload your experiences about the city onto the Map My London site under headings including “Love and Loss”, “Beauty and Horror” and “Fate and Coincidence”.
The site will support contributions in the form of text, digital photographs, video clips and sound recordings and the best thing is that you will be able to have a link directly to your own personal map to put onto your blog.
If this is something that you think that you’d like to get involved with, please visit www.mapmylondon.com.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the website.
Well done on the cool blog – I’ve got it bookmarked, so you might see some more comments from me in the future ;)
Kind regards
Rax, Museum of London
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