The original plan for this weekend had me working last
night and consequently asleep for much of today. I was glad that plans had
changed.
I woke at half past six, rolled ever and slept through till
nine o’clock. We then had something of a minor panic as we had to be up, dogs
fed, and on our way within forty minutes as today was our monthly catch-up with
friends over a spot of brekkie. We made it with one minute to spare.
It is always good to catch up with old friends; we put the
world to rights, and in a novel break with tradition I had mushrooms and black
pudding in place of plum tomatoes on my Full English and ate far too much.
From Café Express we drove round to Quantock Drive for the
“Garage Safari” where people were effectively running boot fair stalls
in their own front gardens. Working on the old maxim that “one man’s trash
is another man’s treasure” I went along with high hopes. However the old
maxim is wrong. One man’s trash is actually another man’s rubbish. I honestly
think the idea of having a boot fair in the front garden was that the front
garden was closer to the car into which the rubbish would be loaded for a tip
run. People were selling worn and knackered old clothes, tired-looking
crockery, broken toys, and encyclopedias from fifty years ago. I had a
transient moment of excitement when I saw a large tub of Lego, but that which
wasn’t either broken or had teeth marks all over it was actually fake Lego.
We came home, hung out the washing, and cracked on with the
day. Pausing only briefly to mow the lawn, my plan was to empty out the back
bedroom. The plaster has blown (quite badly) and I needed to empty all
the shelves and then clear space for the plasterer. I boxed up books that I
haven’t read in years (and have no intentions of reading again). I found
my old telescope; having spent a small fortune on it twelve years ago I used it
twice and it has been in storage ever since. I found back packs which I was
sure had been binned years ago. I found a brand new pair of slippers I bought
to take on holiday two years ago. I found two broken printers which I’d been
saving for no reason whatsoever. And as I tidied and cleared stuff out of the
room I found loads of Lego minifigures which I’d obviously dropped on the floor
over the years.
By the time I’d swept up and made good the afternoon had
nearly gone. “er indoors TM” drove us all down to the woods
where we had a rather good walk. We didn’t see anyone else as we walked, but we
did do a little swamp-monstering, and there was a minor altercation with a dead
blackbird.
I was in charge of washing dogs when we came home.
“er indoors TM” sorted a very good bit
of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching another episode of “Lego Masters:
New Zealand”.
I’m quite worn out, and there’s a busy day planned for
tomorrow…
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