With Adrian away, the morning routine was all a bit to pot this morning. I tried to keep to what Macc is used to, and worked around that! This meant that I took him out, gave him his breakfast, and took him for a walk all before having my breakfast, and only then could I get in the shower. For his walk, I found. Bit of open ground with benches and bins between the canal and the railway line, so he could have some off-lead time (which has been a bit lacking recently). We came back through Jericho, which has some lovely residential streets.
There was movement at the lock this morning, as Maddox, the skippered cruises boat which was featured on Channel 4’s Narrow Escapes moved from the mooring at this end of the arm to go down the lock. I’m not sure if Joe had guests on board, or whether he might have been going to meet some somewhere.
For our lunchtime walk we went down to the Thames Path. There are these very informative signs at each entrance.
On the way back we chatted to the people on a boat moored ahead, who are also a bit stuck because of the closure of the Oxford Canal. It turns out they’d had two Border Terriers and a Lakeland, so we’re quite taken with Macc.
This afternoon I started work on a magazine article which is based on an upcoming podcast episode. I thought the easiest thing would be to look at the transcript, which is automatically generated. But having found it, I realised how many mistakes there were, so I got diverted into correcting them. Unfortunately you can’t just edit the transcript as it’s displayed, you have to download it, make changes, and upload it again — all while not tinkering with any of the time codes which make the words match the audio.
Of course I’m now thinking I should do this for all episodes — or at least the upcoming ones; it would be quite a big job to do them all. Anyway that meant I didn’t get much more than the intro written, but at least I have plenty of time this week.
Adrian’s flight left on schedule this morning, but not until he’d been moved to a seat much further forward in the plane than the one he’d paid for — which is what often happens when on staff travel. He and Mark are off to LA, which is a long flight.