… in Toron.to about to start the fourth leg of my journey. So if you don’t hear from me for a while don’t worry. It merely means that I can’t find a reliable internet connection.
Last night was a really bad night and I don’t know why. I couldn’t get off to sleep and when I did, I couldn’t stay asleep for long.
but I was still up and about reasonably early, having medication and then going down to breakfast.
it took me a good while to organise myself after that but eventually I was ready for the shuttle bus to the airport. It was pretty busy and one guy spent all of the journey talking into his mobile phone and saying nothing except basically “how clever I am and how stupid my clients are” to someone else on the other end of the phone. Not one of the rest of us could understand a single sentence that he was saying.
The airport was busy but the wait through security wasn’t that long and after a thorough examination of my new laptop I was able to proceed.
The plane was pretty full but my neighbour was rather bizarre. I said “hello” to her but she looked back at me as if I had two heads. Never had that in Canada before.
At Toronto it took a while for our suitcases to appear and then I trotted off to the hotel. I’m on the 7th floor in the “secure” area – can’t think why.
We had our expedition briefing later and I met a couple of old friends. But the vultures at the head of the queue cleaned out the buffet – and how – before those of us farther behind could be served. Looking at the mountain of food on some of the plates, then some people have no shame.
I trotted off to Subway for a sandwich and then came back to watch the football. Newly promoted Penybont were playing Barry Town in the opening match of the Welsh Premier League – now the JC Cymru League.
For the first half Penybont played quite well with some nice football, compared to Barry Town’s idea of “hoof it upfield and hope McLaggon can run fast”. 60%-32% possession told its own story.
But in the second half Barry improved and ended up winning 2-1. A bit unfair on Penybont who deserved something from the game.
I’m off to bed now. It’s an early start in the morning. And I don’t know when I’ll see you all again but I’ll catch up eventually.
First day back…
The morning run had so many delays that I ended up so late that another bus had to take some of the kids on the end of my route
My midday never happened. I was supposed to do a quick run between two elementary schools to take a misdelivered child to his correct school. That turned into a 2 and a half hour marathon because I got caught in a traffic jam on the interestate where somebody had crashed a stolen car, leapt out and run for it but had fallen under a passing truck and been killed. So, somebody else had to drive my midday.
The afternoon run – there were so many delays at schools that we were running so late that by the time we got to the very last school on the pickup list, it had closed and the staff had gone home.
Then after finishing for the day, I had to rework my route home because the road I normally use was blocked by fire trucks, ambulances and police cars.
It’s all go, here in South Carolina!