"THE List"

Number 9

Well I enrolled, then stopped or more acurately sailed through air landing in unceremonious heap. Three months late I have begun the work and can say this item on the list has begun to be marked ,maybe not a tick but certainly underlined in pen rather than pencil.  A very long way to travel before this particular boulder gets pushed up its hill but wouldn't be interesting without that boulder would it:0)

A blog following the process is now up and will have a post added each week on a Sunday to help me keep a record of what has or hasn't been done. There may be other posts but it's extremely early days and one a week feels more than enough at present. The blog will no doubt evolve over time but for now it will have word and image about what I am discovering about the process and techniques I will explore and about what I discover about me too. I intend to add links in the side bar to other blogs I find interesting and useful for the course and for needle and stitch things generally.

Already amendments!

Having closed the list a few days before the set close date I gave myself, of course I find the days between the official start and the official close are too much of a temptation so I seem to have entered the amend and edit zone.

No, the list has not suddenly shrunk to one item over night but reading through it this morning my eyes alighted on number five and I marvelled at my excess of fantasy:0) That’s going to be one hell of a 48 hours me thinks.

I looked at the venues, they are all places where I have dined and even stayed in my ill spent youth, cough. But now the child is a growed up lady, yep I am always creative when it comes to pigeon-holes and me:0), and has the experience to really enjoy these places but also the understanding that something simpler less openly opulent would be just grand too. Also small matter of an income that even the government classes as below the poverty line.

When I read number five, I picture places to luxuriate in the décor, sit comfortably and feed slowly with unobtrusive service in an atmosphere of calm delivery.

I found myself wondering if I can find a Vegetarian/Vegan alternative experience in London or any city in UK for that matter. Places that give sense of being equally ‘decadent’, venues that feed the senses with rice Tofu and freshly baked artisan bread to name but a few elements.

I think it would be rather fun to explore just how veggie and vegan number fives’ places can be, how environmentally friendly are their set ups. What’s their policy on waste, power, adding to their immediate neighbourhood etc.

I feel a questionnaire coming on:0) Be interesting to see how the obviously ‘alternative’ measure up against the obviously ‘decadent.’

If you are reading this and know of somewhere that would give me a sensory vegetarian/vegan experience in the dining and staying stakes that is in a city in UK please leave a comment.

I want this item to be a city experience because I so rarely visit such places for more than a flit in and out and I want to revel in the architecture, the people watching as well as the staying and dining.  London comes to mind because it is a city I was once very familiar with but this morning realise I’d be open to any city that comes with a recommendation, that can offer me gallery and craft shop, fine food and soft beds:0)

(Just in case you didn’t find this blog through a link from Asynchronous Process.  I began to hatch the list back in July and gave myself until 31^st October 2008 to complete it and then from 1^st November 2008 until 31^st October 2015 to do it)