A.K.A Why I’m writing and why you’re reading this.

Last week I was discussing my plans for my holiday with a friend of mine (as she is largely to blame for me writing this, her identity will be hidden and she will be known only as R.  This is to prevent the hate mail she will undoubtedly receive for unleashing this nonsense upon the unsuspecting internet).  Over the last few years my holidays have all gone much the same way – I go home, I waste time for several days and I go back to work having done nothing, gone nowhere and feeling faintly cheated.  So this year I had decided to do something – the only problem then being what I should do.  I had come across the idea of visiting places in England that I had either never been to, or had not been to for a very long time.

The issue I had with this was deciding where to go and in what order – and that is where the title “Artificial Constructs” comes in.  I like things to be organised – my DVDs are in alphabetical order, my books are organised by writer, my graphic novels are organised by title.  So I needed some way to organise my holiday.  I had come across the idea of doing things alphabetically – and having casually mentioned this to a friend, the idea had developed until I had decided that was exactly what I was going to do.

I had two weeks holiday.  I had decided to travel to 4 places per week, so by the end of next week I will have covered A-H.  I liked the idea of posting photos on Facebook each day and R suggested that I should also write a blog.  (It should be pointed out at this stage that R is a strange lady with many odd ideas.  She may live to regret this one).  At the time of writing, I have completed A-D and on each day I made some notes which will form the basis of the blog.  I will also post some of the photos that I took.

If you are expecting a well researched and erudite description of the places that I am visiting, you are going to be sadly disappointed.  My research has been sketchy and I have no intention of trying to supplant the large number of well-written and researched guides that already exist.  Instead, I will probably fill this with a series of snarky comments and pictures.

I anticipate that I will look back on this in a years time and wonder why I bothered.

Anyway, that is what we’re doing here.  If it sounds interesting, read on.  If sanity has grabbed you by the throat and shaken you, then I bid you farewell.