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I went to Stonehenge just before sunrise and sat and meditated for half an hour and spent the other half walking around the circle. There's no touching the stones but I traced the shape of them with my hands a couple inches out from the stone. Is more interesting that way. Also I had my sonic screwdriver with me so I could scan them all more closely.
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I went to Stonehenge.

Now I am back. I have been awake a Very Long Time and that's about the extent of my... okay, that sentence gave up. My words, they is done. Tired now. But.

I went to Stonehenge. And I took my Sonic Screwdriver. :-D

I have been thinking about my Quest that I planned. Parts of it have gone well and parts of it are well planned and booked and parts of it haven't launched yet. But I have today concluded that the plans are all missing an element: Proper Quests are helpful, and while I personally would find it helpful to have a dragon on my side, I think there's a certain rescuing and aiding element that's supposed to go with it. I mean, having a dragon and then sitting in my cave for another year is a bit missing the point.

So now I'm trying to think of ways my Quest plans could be helpful to others.

... so far I'm coming up with 'sponsored Quest for charity', which suffers from certain flaws, such as it being me asking the half dozen or so people who actually know me to give money to charity in exchange for me doing precisely the things I want to.

I'm still planning on going to Cardiff. Maybe there's stuff people want taken there? I don't know.

I can think of things I have done that have been useful, but they mostly involve ordering online shopping for my mother. It's neither practical nor quest related for people that aren't my mother.

Mum did working in charity shops. I did not think that looked like fun. Or indeed something I could do for very long at all.

... honestly, trying to think of ways to be helpful to others just immediately gets me all 'clean all the things?'
I'm sure there's small helpfuls of some merit.
I just feel really useless.

... Could I get a dragon first? Dragons are helpful... Erm, if you need to scare off monsters... which clearly provides practical real world benefits very often...


I was planning to write stories that would share what I have learned and make people a bit happy and say the important things about one person making a difference.
... that's much easier to believe when the one person in question is The Doctor...

... but, me...?




Mum says I should quest for dragons in Wymondham. I have in fact found an ad for dragons in Wymondham. There's a Green Dragon pub.

Mum's advice is mostly on the lines of Do Not. Then I end up sitting in my chair a whole lot. I wish to do big questing so I can actually Do.

What's the things to look for when you're looking for a place to stay?
I usually stay in convention hotels where someone else has already chosen the venue. I suspect there's a new skill set involved in picking a good hotel.

I like the websites that pull reviews together from lots of places. Any that mention dirty bathrooms or dead mice I can decide to avoid.

I was looking at Glastonbury places and I think I will also put on my avoid list 'rooms named after rose quartz' and 'reiki treatments'. They're just not what I'm looking for.

I look for wifi. Hotels aren't the only place to get that though. Where else, though? College library isn't the most useful thing when it's the other side of the country...

Hotels are always better if you decide on them in advance and book and stuff. But a Quest would have to be very organised to book every night in advance.

I need to pick a couple of base camps and focus in on things to see around them. Britain is quite close together unless and until you're trying to use public transport. So far it looks like going through Bristol a few times will be necessary. Did I go to a convention in Bristol before? I might know a hotel there... yeah, Starfury:Chosen was at the Thistle Bristol. I been to a lot of Thistle hotels, there's a temptation to go to more just because I been to them. But if you look on websites there's places that are like £35 a night and ... aieee, Bristol is £99 per night, that's a bit swish, familiar is not worth +£60.

... I keep thinking I'm going to have to cross the road and maybe this isn't a good idea at all and I'll probably only get as far as one place for one day and and and...

... in the planning phase I will grandly ignore all that and keep seeing what's out there.