As everyone who starts off for a journey, I am preparing my list of things I would need in my churchyard tour day.
However, as almost everyone I guess, my mind goes blank as soon as I put in front of me a bit of paper and a pen. And of course the feeling that I forgot something extremely important as soon as I leave the house.
Instead of writing everything in a piece of paper which inexorably goes in the bin or lost somewhere, I think it is really time for me to write down a plan and save it…that’s what this post is about, providing for my lack of memory and organisation.
The essentials
So here we go:
- directions of the church/es I want to visit (at least two options, so that I can choose the church which most suits my mood for the day)
- a note-book (to write down the inscriptions, in case the photos are poor quality, and note down any other thing that passes through my mind at the moment)
- a pen (pretty obvious but better write it down, you won’t believe the time I forgot it!)
- a camera (I can’t use the camera phone again, it is not really worth it)
- 2 sets of batteries for the camera (the amount of energy this devil device sucks is unbelievable, sometimes I wonder if I am bringing along a microwave instead)
- food and drinks (cannot feel without energy, can I?)
- ipod (personal obsession)
That’s it, now all I need is remembering to actually read this…
