Kent path

I remember that sometime around 1996, I did some work at home for the first time*. I was working for Bradford and Bingley in Crossflatts on a project with a hard deadline and a spec needed rewriting for the next day. I brought the document home on a floppy disk and that evening I edited it on the Windows 95 PC that I'd bought the year before**. 

I mention this to highlight that fact that during my contracting days, you couldn't really work offsite: you had to go to where the mainframes were. For me that meant Harrogate, Leeds, Knutsford, London, and then, in 1997, Kendal. Finally, a local job!

The office in Kendal was immediately south of Strammongate Bridge and provided a decent start point for a lunchtime runner like me. I had a number of routes, the longest of which I would do on a Friday lunchtime so that in the afternoon my tiredness would pass unnoticed amongst all the people who'd been to the pub. (Friday lunchtime drinking was still very much a thing back then.)

One of the other routes went out to Burneside and eventually returned to the office by following a path along the Kent. I found myself down here today whilst taking a lunch break from a session at the county hall, which is on Windermere Road. I never realised before that the two were so close together.

The outcome from the county hall session was both surprising and disappointing but, on the upside, I did find my second pair of glasses, this evening.

*It was 2002 before I could actually work from home properly, i.e. connecting to work via ISDN (look it up, kids). 

**If memory serves correctly, when you bought a copy of Office back then it came on eighteen floppy disks. 

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Reading: 'Plan For Chaos' by John Wyndham.