Supermarkets. The day before mother's day? It's as bad as Christmas. What is wrong with everyone?!
I have to travel to Cardiff tomorrow to see my mother. Fine aside from it being a Sunday. Train travel could not be more complex on a Sunday. Lots of buses. Lots of waiting around for buses. And for those that are more rail than rail replacement, lots of slow running trains. I have bought picnic stuff as there is no chance of getting me anywhere near a restaurant when I know in advance it's going to be packed and noisy and stressful. She's happy with that though, so it's all ok! We'll go and find a nice hill to walk up, and sit on.
The plus side to train travel is it gives me an opportunity to do some of the more boring reading parts of my courses, which I am loathe to do when there is a distraction of any description available to me.
I've been given books on prescription as well now. I couldn't bring myself to go to the library and get them in that way. So yesterday I bought them. I'm supposed to have made inroads into them by Monday afternoon, but I'm not keen on opening them. Monday morning perhaps; they're depressing by nature so I might as well utilise the opportunity to do a bit of normalising, given that I don't usually get the Monday morning blues. I haven't had a weekend-free job since I was about 17. I've always been a shift worker or self employed. I'm grateful for that too as I'd never get to go to the pub if I was only free at weekends. Or town. Though that wouldn't be the greatest loss - town, not the pub.
Anyway, time to continue with whatever it was I convinced myself I was doing before I started writing this.
Chains, trains and open-air-meals
Supermarkets. The day before mother's day? It's as bad as Christmas. What is wrong with everyone?!
I have to travel to Cardiff tomorrow to see my mother. Fine aside from it being a Sunday. Train travel could not be more complex on a Sunday. Lots of buses. Lots of waiting around for buses. And for those that are more rail than rail replacement, lots of slow running trains. I have bought picnic stuff as there is no chance of getting me anywhere near a restaurant when I know in advance it's going to be packed and noisy and stressful. She's happy with that though, so it's all ok! We'll go and find a nice hill to walk up, and sit on.
The plus side to train travel is it gives me an opportunity to do some of the more boring reading parts of my courses, which I am loathe to do when there is a distraction of any description available to me.
I've been given books on prescription as well now. I couldn't bring myself to go to the library and get them in that way. So yesterday I bought them. I'm supposed to have made inroads into them by Monday afternoon, but I'm not keen on opening them. Monday morning perhaps; they're depressing by nature so I might as well utilise the opportunity to do a bit of normalising, given that I don't usually get the Monday morning blues. I haven't had a weekend-free job since I was about 17. I've always been a shift worker or self employed. I'm grateful for that too as I'd never get to go to the pub if I was only free at weekends. Or town. Though that wouldn't be the greatest loss - town, not the pub.
Anyway, time to continue with whatever it was I convinced myself I was doing before I started writing this.