What's the Difference Between a Veranda and a Balcony?

Posted on 2009/01/19 20:40:21 (January 2009).

[Wednesday 14th January]
I'm guessing this week was pretty uneventful - I came to write this entry the following Monday and initially really struggled to remember anything about it at all!

In the daytime our visitor at work was still around (he had only come to the UK for two days in fact) and so we had a few more meetings to talk about numbers, statistics, and so on. Whilst yesterday's meetings had been, in my opinion, a bit meandering and not very "actionable" I felt today we came up with real concrete decisions for tangible things we were actually going to go away and do. I have really come to despise purposeless academic debates in the workplace, and have developed a "brand", as my manager would put it, for the person who sits in meetings and kills these pointless tangents dead in their tracks so as to keep things focused. After all, you can't sell your customers an intellectually gratifying concept, in my experience they generally tend to want an actual physical product.

We also had the opportunity to get out of the office at lunchtime, and after some very bland and disappointing noodles I took our visitor from the US for a stroll around the grand residences around Belgrave Square, which was nice. It was a good opportunity to talk about architecture a bit, which I think probably thanks to my uncles I am beginning to develop something of an interest in. Of course, I'm still very much at a beginner's level, but I was at least able to demonstrate the difference between a veranda and a balcony (the former has a roof, the latter doesn't), and also what stucco means (it is basically just plaster, but tends to be used for exterior rather than interior plasterwork).

Chie went to yoga after she got home from work, so even though I stayed at the office until some time after 7 I was able to get home and cook dinner for Chie before she got back. Nothing particularly ambitious - just a salad followed by some linguini with pesto. It was actually quite nice though.

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