You've won a peach coloured sunset

You've won a peach coloured sunset
Originally uploaded by Kyra Savolainen.

Photo taken at the apex of a day's walk in the English countryside.

Google gobbles Writely

After sending a great number of work-attached emails to myself this school year, I've belatedly discovered online word processing. Unfortunately, the phenomenon has entered my sights just as Google acquires Writely ( seemingly the most accessible WP service), and promptly suspends new account registration.

With my interest in online WP piqued and Writely's current unavailability, I've set out to find an alternative. Now onscreen is ThinkFree Office Online (beta).

Reminder to Self

Find Thortons/Thornley(?) toffee for "Eric at school". (Met on Thurs morning, offered London suggestions, shared PMB for comparison.)

58 Wetherden Street, Satellite View

Well morning to you. Let's do some spying together.

As I still have a little more than an hour before my first class starts, I thought I'd link to Google Maps' satellite image of Wetherden Street. When you zoom in, you can get a pretty good view of the backyards; but I'm left wondering if any of the bomb shelters remain from the blitz. This wonder leads me to question whether most homes in London and its surrounding area have uprooted their shelters. I guess the corrugated metal domes would have been eyesores and space-wasters to many, and Ivy described her family's shelter as already leaky and flooded during the bombings. When she talks about things like that -- her family having to run to the bomb shelter for protection during air raids and inciendiary bombs -- she doesn't show any rememberence of fear, and I wonder about that, too.