… a change of plan in the near future. No matter what they say to me at the hospital on 27th February, I shan’t be going home the following day as it now seems that I have other fish to fry
While you admire the Botanical Gardens, or Jardin Botanique or Kruidtuin of Leuven, where I went a-wandering this afternoon, I can fill you in about my day today.
Although I was late going off to sleep, I slept solidly until about 06:30 when I was awoken by whatever it is that awoke me. No chance of going back to sleep and so I fretted and frittered in my bed until the alarm went off, and then I climbed upstairs to see where we were with the breakfast
Someone who had passed by during the night had left us some bread for breakfast, although there wasn’t much else (although they did pass by today and stock up) so the bread that I had saved from my baguette yesterday wasn’t needed.
However, given a quick 20 seconds in the microwave at lunchtime, it freshened up really well so that I only ate half of the baguette that I bought today. I’ll freshen that off tomorrow and that will save me having to buy one on Friday.
And that’s just as well too, because I ain’t gonna be here on Friday. I have things to do, places to go, people to see.
During the morning I had a pile of stuff to do. This involving sending out a huge raft of e-mails and having an intense discussion with someone on the internet, as a result of all of which I now have to stay on here in Belgium for an extra week or so.
Not that I’m complaining of course – it’s nice to have all of these changes of plans, even if it does mean that my return home will be postponed for yet another week. I’ve probably forgotten where my house is by now
While I was out buying my baguette I noticed that there were no fewer than 5 black plastic storage boxes in the rubbish skip. One of them was pretty well crushed about but the other four were good, so I liberated them on the way back here.
It’s quite ironic that I took three down to Caliburn the other day in order to make a bit more space here, and just a couple of days later I’ve ended up with more than I started with.
After lunch I occupied myself with some tidying up in here, getting rid of another pile of paperwork, and the place looks a little more tidy here than it did previously.
And then I wandered down to Caliburn. I wasn’t sure what I needed to do down there but I went all the same. Started him up and let him tick over for 15 minutes. I did some tidying up in the back and just brought back some bottles of drink and a soya milk.
It was such a nice afternoon that I walked back the long way through the Botanical Gardens. It really was beautiful in there, and the smells were totally overpowering.
The bulbs were starting to sprout too and it all looked and smelt very much like spring in there. There weren’t many people in there but everyone seemed to be enjoying it. And quite right too.
Back here I had a crash out for a while and then went off to make tea. I remembered to put the olives in tonight’s kidney bean mix, and I also remembered to take up my pineapple rings to eat with my vegan ice-cream.
And another one of my housemates has invited me out for a drink. There are a lot of lonely people in places like this.
So now it’s another early night, to see if I can have a good sleep. I could do with it after all of this excitement today.
