[props open eyelids with matchsticks]
The earlyish night ended up not being as early as I'd intended, and even though I managed to drop off again for an hour or so after waking up at just gone 8, I still haven't had enough sleep.
I need a large box for a present, and thought
The Range might have what I require (they didn't, dammit) so arranged to tank over there this morning - with Kai, who wanted to take a look at the trains on the way. No, I'll rephrase that, he wanted do an anorak at the sidings and behind the Showcase cinema where two tracks diverge and there's a train roughly every seven minutes ([rolls eyes] he knew because he's timed them...) We were almost out of the door when Kim rang to ask if we wanted to drive out to the Cadbury garden centre at Congresbury at 2.30 (we meant to go there last week on the way back from Portishead swimming pool, but the traffic was so awful we turned round and went home instead).
Regular readers will know how much I love the place, and how lucky I've been with shopping there, so I wasn't going to say no! But it meant the morning shop was a bit hurried... Still, we stopped at the sidings, where I took this ->
(interesting assortment of shapes, structures and perspectives, I thought, though it looks much better in RL), and then at the Showcase, where to Kai's delight an EWS locomotive trundled past
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(It's his favourite. First time I've used the 'moving image' setting with the telephoto lens - rather pleased with how it worked, though this photo of course doesn't show how far away the train was, and I'm no good at estimating distance. Um, too far away to be able to make out that anything was written on the side?)
Anyway, back via Sainsbug's and arrived home in time for a very quick lunch - except that Kim arrived early, so there wasn't...
Great afternoon though - picked up the
Whitegold and
Goldflame spireas I wanted, a rosemary (the one I bought from Hurrans appears to be dying), a
ceanothus Blue Sapphire, a native yarrow - and a silk
laeliocattleya plant (now sitting in the hall by the mermaid). Then the sprogs wanted to play in a park, so we drove along the coast road from Clevedon to Portishead (
gorgeous run and the weather was lovely). There's a large pond at the western end of the town, with a play park and beach walk, and an open-air swimming pool that's only open when it's very hot. (We'll have to go back when it's warmer and try the beach walk: apparently it's really pretty.)
So, quite late getting back, about 6-ish I think, but I still had time to finish one of Quyn's beds. He's due a bath tomorrow, poor thing.
Will try again for an early night...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:48 pm
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