Friday, May 09, 2008
Of course, scheduled post publishing has its risks. Post too far into the future and events may overtake planned reality. I must never assume that it's possible to predict precisely what's going to happen next, because what happens next may turn out to be completely different. Right now, for example, I was planning to be on board a boat in the middle of the Thames, investigating a few more of London's wartime estuary defences. But things may not have worked out in quite the way I planned. I might have missed the train out of town, reached the harbourside too late and had to watch the boat sail off into mid-river without me. I might have discovered that my online booking hasn't been accepted, that the boat is full and that I've wasted my time travelling all the way down here. I might have misjudged the weather forecast and accidentally picked the only afternoon this week that isn't sunny, and stormed back home in disgust. Or I might even have fallen victim to the Great Thames Tidal Surge Disaster of May 2008, and be posting posthumously. Well, you never know. But hopefully I'm out on the river, in the sunshine, having a whale of a time. Ooh, blimey, look at that! Fantastic! Fingers crossed.
[n.b. Twitter may have a more timely update]
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