… day of the holiday season today. And I have learnt a couple of things
- it’s a waste of time going to the shops on a Saturday morning. There’s the market which louses up the centre of the town so you have to sneak through the byways, and there you are stuck behind Grockles driving around slowly and aimlessly looking for a parking space.
- On the way back into town, it’s nose-to-tail all the way – a slow crawl. And even if you take the route through the back streets and the housing estates you still end up in a bottleneck and have the delectable spectacles of Grockles fighting over car-parking spaces.
- Prices of articles in the local shops near the beaches have suddenly gone up
And so with all of the traffic I spent longer in the traffic queues coming home than I did going around the LeClerc.
But at least I did remember the oven chips, the bread-making stuff and the pizza stuff. However I have had a disappointment. The 30cm pizza plate to fit into the 30.5cm oven is in fact 31.3 cms as it has a rather wide lip. Consequently the door won’t close. However, by the time tomorrow that I will have finished attacking it with a couple of pairs of pliers, it’ll fit just fine. NO doubt about it.
This morning I was awake quite early and we had an early breakfast too. And then I hit the streets and the traffic.
At lunchtime I was out on my wall overlooking the harbour in the nice weather. It was a little cooler today – just a mere 24.5°C so I stayed out there for quite a while with my book. It was really quite pleasant, even though there’s no ship there (the Victress is in the Channel off the town of Littlehampton).
Apart from that, I’ve not done an awful lot. After all, it’s a weekend and there’s no footy. I’ve had my tea and I might even have an early night if I’m not careful.
But I won’t be going shopping on a weekend again, that’s for sure.
