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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2008-08-19 10:31 pm
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Poi and travel

Feeling tired from too much travel - been visiting friends and family over the last few days.

Had just managed to work out my poi routine for the Discworld maskerade - a fairly complicated one using scarf poi and a newly learnt figure called a 'fountain'.  Took me a week and a half to 'get' the fountain, and to do the whole routine without twisting the scarves.

Managed to leave the bag containing poi, cross-stitch and the book I'm reading (my 'on voyage' bag) on the train coming home.  A couple of phone calls elicited the information that the bag (if it's been found) will be in Bournemouth until Thursday (before being taken to Waterloo), but of course, in this day and age, you cannot phone a station.  Great efforts are made to ensure you have no number to phone.  A friend of my son's in Bournemouth did a quick check, but lost property closes at 6pm.

Will have to try again tomorrow, but am feeling frustrated.  If I can't get those poi back, I'll have to re-learn the routine all over (different sets of poi move very differently) and I don't know if I have the time before the convention.
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[personal profile] kerravonsen 2008-08-19 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
{hugs} I hope you get them back.

[identity profile] multiclassgeek.livejournal.com 2008-08-19 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If you can't lay someone's hands on them before Thursday, let me know - I'm in and out of Central London for work all the time, and could easily swing by Waterloo to pick them up for you.
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2008-08-20 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. They didn't turn up at Bournemouth station, so I guess Waterloo is the next place to try. Stuff is apparently delivered there by midday Thursday.

The search is for one plastic carrier bag, containing: paperback copy of 'Sheepfarmer's Daughter', paperback "How to draw Roman Mosaics", blue velvet bag with Pooh bear embroidery kit, a kit to embroider a bracelet in really neon colours, and a bag with two purple scarf poi.

It was left on either the train from Manchester to Bournemouth, or the one from Bournemouth to Poole.

I'm just hoping they didn't think it was rubbish because it was all in a carrier bag...
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2008-08-20 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really kind of you to offer and I'm going to take you up on the offer.

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2008-08-20 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Eeek! I know how awful that feels...

[identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com 2008-08-20 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs* I hope the bag has been found and you can get it back in time.