A Spreading of Wings: Starting to get my bearings

Still in London, will be for the rest of the week.

Decided to sleep in this morning. Figured I could, so why not. Was quite nice.

After the failure with sorting important things yesterday, I decided to give it another crack today. This translated in my head as go for a walk around Hammersmith to see what the place I am staying in looked like, grab some breakfast and see how things work out. Surprisingly well as a matter of fact. Finally managed to get my phone to accept it's new sim card and then realised that I hadn't been able to contact the right people about my NI number because I was in fact trying to call the wrong number. With the correct number I managed to contact them and they will apparently get back to me. So a successful morning.

About this time, with the weather being relatively warm and sunny, one of the guys at the flat decided that heading to the pub would be the most productive use of our time. I agreed with that thinking. So both beer and time passed, until I put down my glass and headed toward Hyde Park. After forgetting one yesterday and being told by a couple of people what a stupid idea that was, I took one today.

It turns out Hyde Park is quite big. Quite a bit bigger than I thought. After half an hour of walking through the park I got to the end. However rather than walking the length of the park like I thought I had, I had walked the short width. This put my half a map in alot sharper perspective. Never the less I continued to explore and a couple of hours later, I feel that I have now seen atleast half of what the park has to offer. It may require several more visits over the next few years. On the positive side, I got to play with squirrels. Any day involving squirrels is a good day in my book.