How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I had a lovely day, thank you, david.

Methodist chapel on the outside, high-tech theatre on the inside. I bet most theatres in London's glittering West End don't have big screws under the stalls!




The BBC had been forecasting heavy rain, so obviously it was sunny all day. Even the trains were on time.

If I weren't busy, I'd go back on Saturday. One of the nearby bars is advertising a PA from The Cheeky Girls for freshers' week. Never let it be said we don't get the big stars in Yorkshire!

First my local urban fox started stealing garden gloves and the cats food dishes. Then at the weekend it decided to open up the bags of compost spilling the contents allover the floor, breaking some solar lights and jumping up and down on all the plants in the flower bed.
But today was a whole new ball game. I had the back door open and was in the lounge. I went out later into the garden and found, on the grass, the door mat, my flip flops, Bath mat and pedestal mat.
Don't you just love them!

Going out now to buy a balloon.

Definately a fox. He/she lives in the alleyway at the bottom of my garden and see them every day. In fact the stray cat I feed is often seen lying in the sun near the fox. They seem to be good mates.

Trouble getting home after shopping this morning because the roads were partially blocked by huge queues of morons panic-buying petrol. At least we're not quite in the same state as when the US had its own panic-created shortage a few months ago, when people were putting fuel in plastic bags and loading it into the back of their cars because apparently that's totally a sane reaction.

I was just reminded that 91 years ago today the R101 crashed, putting an end to Britain's dreams of a worldwide airship network.

As a child I had a book on airships and I was captivated by the stories of these giants of the sky gliding overhead. I've seen the old airship hangers at Cardington and they're bigger than you think even when you take that they're bigger than you think into account. What it must have been like to see something that size drifting through the air above you.

(Truth is, they weren't always much fun to travel in. The Graf Zeppelin, successful though it was, lacked heating and on trans-Atlantic flights passengers had to huddle up in furs to endure several days of near-Arctic temperatures.)

Nice day to sit in the sunshine, having a beer and a pub lunch, watching the year's last butterflies and wasps.

I feel like some higher power wants to keep me at home lately!! I was meant to go to Dorset with my parents in Sept but then my dad had heart problems so we rearranged it to this week. My Dad’s heart problems continued, so that had to be cancelled too. He seems ok thankfully now. So I kept my annual leave and decided instead I’d go to Edinburgh for 2 days weds/thurs and booked up. Woke up yesterday morning feeling a bit rough and proceeded to experience the worst stomach bug!! So had to cancel that too! I’m still feeling rough but I think I’ve turned a corner, still not up for travelling to Scotland though. Deffo someone somewhere wants to keep me at home!!!! Norovirus is pretty much the least fun everrrr

Dawnstar, you were in my corner of London (King's Cross)! Sorry to hear it did not exactly shine last night, though...

I've been feeling so tired this week, and work has been oddly stressful... So I decided I needed a day brightener, and ended up buying a return bus ticket to Nottingham, to see Alex Henry Foster and the Long Shadows play a small concert at the Rough Trade there, on 4 November. Which is possibly a little crazy, because I will be seeing them the week before in London, and the day after Nottingham, in Bristol, opening for The Pineapple Thief, but what would life be without a little bit of crazy in it?! 

Sadly I didn't think to book for Mark Gatiss while there, and only realised later that my bus arrives too late for the really early 1:30 matinee. *sigh* I should plan better next time, and not impulsively book bus tickets at 1AM, probably (and there's this one, lonely cheap ticket in the Playhouse auditorium teasing me to go for it still, and get a new bus ticket...).

If anyone here is from Nottingham, tips and ideas on where to go and what to do for an afternoon absolutely welcome! (Also, do come to the concert: it is free, and it will be beautiful, promise!)

Moving house and area tomorrow so a last stressful day of making sure everything is packed and cleaned! Hopefully it will all go to plan tomorrow.

Absolutely the right decision, Forrest.

I can't believe I missed mushy peas off my list. Mushy peas and mint sauce, in the market, is a must!