First actual day of Diacon Alley!

Started the morning at three a.m. with jet lag and the sudden realization that I forgot to pack my robes. In fact, I left them sitting on the dining room table when I closed the suitcase and went out the door. Tantalisingly, it is graduation time here in Canterbury so we keep seeing graduates in their Ede and Ravenscroft hired (that's the same as "rented" for Americans) robes, and I keep thinking I should be able to just mug or bribe one of them. Except they are usually being watched over by two proud but anxious parents.

Fortunately, Francie gatewaygirl packed her old graduation robe, and lent it to me, and it will have to do.

After the sudden middle of the night realization, I went back to sleep. ( Read more... )