After BiCon Post
Sep. 8th, 2011 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhialtoBiCon was pretty good. Danced with cute people, was a bit flirty with someone, and discovered someone who was at the famous Edinburgh soc.bi party in 1991, and had not seen since. I gave people my card - hopefully they'll also want to stay in touch. Of course there was too little time to chat with all the people I would have wanted to, as usual. It takes me a while to get going in that department, and before you know it, BiCon is over already.
Afterwards, I went to London to Isabelle's (lj:babounet) house, to visit the lodgers. I was hoping to meet other friends of Isabelle's too but that didn't work out. But the lodgers made me very welcome and made me nice food. They had made small but nice improvements to the house. Isabelle's room is in use as a tv room, but her things are still there, it is just rearranged a bit or put away in cupboards. For me that was actually good - it was a lot less triggery that way. (Also it was good that the BiCon venue wasn't exactly the same as when I was there with Isabelle, for the same reason. That is also a reason I booked en-suite accommodation rather than standard, like we had then.) I did randomly rummage through her things, which was rather triggering, but I am glad I still can do at least that.
I also visited Foyle's and bought some books - only two, since it had to fit within my hand baggage mass limit. Since there are lots of building works around the Tottenham Court Road underground station (the one nearest to Foyle's) I walked to Oxford Circus (instead of Goodge Street, I used on the way out), and I was amazed by how incredibly busy it was. Big throngs of people moving into the entrance and through the ticket barriers, and eventually into trains (although I had to let the first one go since it was too full).
Still haven't visited Mornington Crescent.
Back home, they're going to replace my windows tomorrow morning very early, so I need to remove everything that is close to them. This is a lot of work, given the amount of stuff I have. But it looks it'll work out. Hopefully it won't rain to much.
Next month I will visit Isabelle's parents. I'm the only thing they have left of their only daughter, so this is rather important, especially for her mother. I hope it won't be too stressful for me. Fortunately, Rémy will be there too, to help with translations.
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Afterwards, I went to London to Isabelle's (lj:babounet) house, to visit the lodgers. I was hoping to meet other friends of Isabelle's too but that didn't work out. But the lodgers made me very welcome and made me nice food. They had made small but nice improvements to the house. Isabelle's room is in use as a tv room, but her things are still there, it is just rearranged a bit or put away in cupboards. For me that was actually good - it was a lot less triggery that way. (Also it was good that the BiCon venue wasn't exactly the same as when I was there with Isabelle, for the same reason. That is also a reason I booked en-suite accommodation rather than standard, like we had then.) I did randomly rummage through her things, which was rather triggering, but I am glad I still can do at least that.
I also visited Foyle's and bought some books - only two, since it had to fit within my hand baggage mass limit. Since there are lots of building works around the Tottenham Court Road underground station (the one nearest to Foyle's) I walked to Oxford Circus (instead of Goodge Street, I used on the way out), and I was amazed by how incredibly busy it was. Big throngs of people moving into the entrance and through the ticket barriers, and eventually into trains (although I had to let the first one go since it was too full).
Still haven't visited Mornington Crescent.
Back home, they're going to replace my windows tomorrow morning very early, so I need to remove everything that is close to them. This is a lot of work, given the amount of stuff I have. But it looks it'll work out. Hopefully it won't rain to much.
Next month I will visit Isabelle's parents. I'm the only thing they have left of their only daughter, so this is rather important, especially for her mother. I hope it won't be too stressful for me. Fortunately, Rémy will be there too, to help with translations.
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