How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I prefer to be warm rather than stubborn just because the calendar doesn't yet say it is officially autumn!

I used to live in a much warmer country than this, which rather ruined my perception of what is "warm" and my ability to tolerate cold.

Went to my sister's garden, spent whole time wishing i'd put on a fleece, it's back with the layers for me, tad alarming if this is to be for the next 7 plus months. That was the upside of work in the office, they had heating.

Whilst I was wishing i had a coat on my nephew, who is going through potty training, took an alfresco wee in the garden, it took me ten minutes to persuade him back into his trousers, he was quite warm enough in pants he said.

Can't say he's that fussed about nice and quiet, it's more just i'll get off the trampoline and take a few steps away. I'm never sure how much advance warning he is giving you so it's just a matter of removing clothes as fast as possible. 


Went for my walk around the village and took the opportunity to listen to a podcast, was a bit disappointed to find my new headphones required me to turn it up full volume to hear. Got back and realised the cable had come out a bit and in fact I'd been broadcasting the podcast as I travelled. 

I bet Castleton was heaving with the last dregs of eat-out-to help-out opportunists and people looking in shop windows at over-priced tat fashioned out of Blue John.

The sun is shining and I am off to Devon for 5 days. This early retirement lark isn't half bad!

I always thought I was the only impatient fridge-ice scraper, but nice to hear I'm in good company! :D

I'm back in London after 3.5 weeks of being home, and I feel a bit nostalgic: I had such a great time and I miss my friends and the 'busy' life I used to have there that I never quite managed to build here because the city shut down unexpectedly, but am also happy to be back, despite the fact I'll spend the next two weeks in self-isolation. It's complicated.  
(My welcome home lunch is instant pasta, which is admittedly pretty lame and possibly contributes to the feeling of nostalgia. The Government has banned me from going to the store - which, as annoying as it is, makes a bit of sense as an anti-COVID measure, so I cannot really complain - and Sainsbury's had no delivery slots for groceries before Thursday, so sad food cupboard leftovers it is!)

The advertisement panels at the bottom of the page were just showing a rather dodgy advert pushing:

Amazon Work From Home Jobs
Best Work From Home Jobs
Highest-Rated Mattresses
Doctors Note For Work

So, are they trying to promote working from home or skiving off from home?

If it makes you feel any better we were woken up at 5.30 am each day by the noise above in the hotel!! Still had a great time though!

Absolutely! 

and it still takes 93 minutes! 🙂

Had hospital scans today, I thought I just had to go in have scan, but saw a doctor/consultant perhaps for exam and then discuss did I think i would have a scan, then a nurse, then two scanning people who couldn't read the doctor's handwriting so started from scratch again, they explained then I'd need to see someone else who'd decided if i needed a different scan, saw next person and they said looks fine, you may leave. Wandered round a bit with my gown that i'd been given but never told to put on.

Saw lots of staff, very few patients. In total I saw 9 different members of staff myself and I suppose the man who found me wandering around lost.

So phew pain is not what i'd feared though may now just be a thing I live with.

My sister picked me up and told me my nephew had tried to escape from first day at pre school, he'd waited till they were all outside, gone back inside, collected up all his things and made a break for it. Sadly the 6 foot fence did it's job. On being collected his younger sister then refused to leave and had to be carried screaming down road.

Local council has clearly got some of that lets all be healthy and cycle money, roads suddenly all 20 mph and whole lanes have disappeared so all traffic trying to get through one lane which now has a bus stop taking out the whole thing so whole town grinds to halt. The other car size lane now a cycle lane through which it appears the bus passengers have to dodge to get to the bus. Chaos.