Yep it’s another night out for Nic in an Italian restuarant 🙂
Today we were supposed to be meeting Julie & co for a walk at Highdown Gardens. All was going swimmingly when David knocked on the door to say we’d left our lights on. Easily done in the whole no dashboard lights, streetlight directly over our driveway meaning it’s light anyway situation last night. But meant the Pajero’s batteries were flat.
Ady got them on charge and I rang Julie hoping to persuade her to come over this way instead. She was not to be convinced so we put it off until after lunch.
Determined to make the most of a day at home I ticked more things off my job list including booking a campsite for next Thursday night and replying to some emails.
It became obvious that the batteries would not be charged enough to use today so I rang Julie again and rearranged to meet up tomorrow instead. I spoke to my Mum about Granny who is still not well and in a high dependancy ward but was being taken to theatre today to have a camera put inside to see if they can diagnose just what is wrong. I’m intending seeing her tomorrow.
The generator arrived much to Ady’s delight 🙂
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I had a couple of emails from Rum – one about a venison processing community owned company that they have won a grant to fund and want residents to get involved in – emailed straight back to that one saying yes please and another from IRCT to say we’d been successful in our application to be the Odd Job People for the trust, jointly sharing the role between Ady and I. It’s only likely to be about 10 hours a month but at £10 an hour that will be perfect for not getting in the way of our plans but trickling in some income. Finer details to be sorted once we arrive next week.
I read the article I wrote yesterday to the others for their approval, changed a couple of bits at their suggestion and emailed it across along with some photos. I really enjoyed writing to a brief like that, reminded me why I want to do more of it.
I got ready to go out and the set off to walk into town. It’s about 3 miles but 2/3 of it is along the seafront so it’s a nice walk and the sun was shining.
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Unfortunately I learnt nothing from yesterdays striding and wore the same shoes again so am now sporting blisters the size of beer mats on the soles of both feet. Ouch.
I had allowed 70 minutes for the walk but it only took 45 so I had nearly half an hour to kill. The restaurant let me come in and have a drink while I waited though so all was well.
The others 8 arrived in trickles and finally we were all seated. I was a bit rubbish at looking at the menu really and got distracted by bacon so ended up eating more or less the same meal I had last night. Except I did my usual thing of talking rather than eating and therefore not eating very much at all then feeling self conscious that everyone else had finished so stopping eating too. Am a bit hungry now…
It was lovely to see everyone – I met two partners for the first time too which was fab, particularly as they both seemed lovely and are making my friends happy :). As ever I talked more than I listened and had a rather unsatisfactory discussion with James about Davies and Scarlett living on an island. It was all perfectly amicable and I was reassured later that he’d been winding the other parents at the table up anyway with his 18 year olds views on the world but I hate feeling I’ve not conducted myself well and come across as fanatical or too alternative rather than the mostly reasonable and rational and considered person I like to think I am. Maybe I should add deluded to one of those lists… 😉
Waved goodbye to everyone and hobbled to Sarah’s car as she was dropping me home. I got in to find the kids watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks and a bath waiting for me. What I think I’d really like is a curry but at 130am I should probably just go to sleep really!
generator is soooo much smaller than I was imagining!
Comment by mich — 14 April 2012 @ 11:43 am
PS you’ve seen our black pepper grinder? Not the one that matches the salt grinder.
Comment by mich — 14 April 2012 @ 11:43 am