I have to get into the habit of writing about things on this blog when they happen. At the moment I am kinda putting things on the long finger and then coming back to them…
I travelled to Kingston with Niamh on a Thursday. I was doing a 15 hour trip which would have me take only a half day off work… as it turned out I took the extra day off anyway to go and try on suits with Mark.
The flight over was non eventful, but the bus trip from Heathrow to Kingston is not a journey I will ever look forward to. It wouldn’t have been so bad if we didn’t have tons of luggage for Niamh, but 1 hour 40 mins of crawling through the traffic in London in a bus and looking after some seriously heavy suitcases was a major pain in the ass.
When we got to Kingston, I was really impressed. It was a really bueatiful suburb of London and I was delighted that Niamh would be living her for the next few years until she finishes architecture. We checked her into her residence which I was also very pleased with, and then went about buying some of the stuff she would need such as sheets for the bed etc etc. As it turned out she is allowed have over night guests so for the 3 hours of sleep I did get that night, I didn’t need a hotel.
After buying the necessary items, we had some food in Pizza Hut and then spent the rest of the evening walking around Kingston. We headed up to see her college and just explored the town more than anything else. It is actually really cool with little avenues and streets everywhere. It has a nice sedate feeling to it… a comfortable place maybe. I don’t really know how to describe it.
Luckily the same bus we got from Heathrow to Kington operates 24hours, so I was up and on the bus for 0420. The architecture of the place is beautiful, and as I stood there waiting for the bus to come along I had the strange sense that i was standing in a painting…
I got to say I was really proud of Niamh. She took to the whole thing very well, and I’m sure the challenges she will face over the coming times will be no problem to her. For the first time ever, at 0400 on this Thursday in August, she was on her own… out on her own.