9th January – A shadow
Day begins with the schlep to take herself to work. Leave a little later today and it works out much better, would have been dead stressed of I’d have been at work today.
Car hoover arrives and set it charging. Take the car for a bath, end up in Leigh and fill it up. Update spreadsheet. Bit of shopping in Morrisons and grab a coffee. Home and it’s time to clean the fridge out which is achieved, cooker cleaned and cat litter changed. Hoover the car and jobs a good ‘un. Decide I’d better do something with this year so new year, new learning.
Much discussion around the notion of C’s retirement. We find some sort of financial solution. Not my best moment but C believes it so. That in itself is rewarding.
Review #9 – The Headcoats – The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ‘n’ Beat Vernacular
Pure garage sounds from Billy Childish et al. Classic no-nonsense stuff.
Music
- The Headcoats – The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ‘n’ Beat Vernacular
- The Headcoatees – Mantrap
- The Headcoatees – The Man-Trap Sessions Vol. 1 (EP)
- The Headcoatees – The Man-Trap Sessions Vol. 2 (EP)
- The Bad Beats – His Vengeful Hand
- The Bad Beats – Gotta Get Loose
- The Bad Beats – Off The Hook
- The Bad Beats – Demo
- Stereolab – Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon (EP)
- Green Seagull – Cloud Cover
- Green Seagull – First Snow Of Winter
- Green Seagull – Scarlet Fever
- The Knight Shades – Switch on! With..
- The On and Ons – Menacing Smile
- The On and Ons – Let Ya Hair Down!
- The On and Ons – Back For More
- The On and Ons – Welcome Aboard
- The On and Ons – You And I / Hard To Say Goodbye 7″
- The Sences – Done With You
- The Sences – Better Than Before
- The Sences – We Had Tyme To Spent
- The Crystal Teardrop – The Crystal Teardrop…Is Forming
- The Crystal Teardrop – By The River
- The Crystal Teardrop – Nine Times Nine
Day off, plan is to get shit done. I kinda achieve some of that but do catch a kip. Didn’t get to the allotment, didn’t get the fridge sorted. But did fetch meds and get the laundry done. Big changes at the laundrette, various dryers have been ripped out, but they were the ones nobody ever used. Bring in the new chromebook and realise I have a whole heap of photoshop learning to do. Never say never!
So today was a bit of a strange one. Systems went down. A HBB and laugh as the systems played up and a heap of cancellation.
Tuesday and the first day of driving C to work. The roads are truly horrible, icy and bits of snow. On way to the school we discovered the boot was open. Pulled in sorted it. Was tbh a bit stressed by road conditions and the unknowns of getting to work on time (turned out reet!)
Yay a HE. Felt good, job was a good ‘un and a phone sale out of it too which I’ve not coded. Brief dusting of snow, the weather is best described as brass monkey’s. Driving continues to be OK, getting a wee bit more confident. Home via Aldi to pick up bread products.
So here we go 2,3,4… plan was to nip to the Tom and Gerry, have a coffee, retrieve some extra change, nip to the allotment passing the laundrette proving it was open and back via the laundrette whereupon the laundry would be done. Along the way there was to be photo’s of the morning light. The reality was it starts to snow, the geezer who owns the laundrette had failed to turn up, I managed to start driving down a one way street. On the plus side I did fetch change, grab coffee and take morning light photos. Rearranged plan, once I’d turned round on a back alley was off to the laundrette at Haydock. Got there and the place was rammed. A 30 minute wait for the washing machine, a 20 minute wait for a dryer.
Something that’s changing – always the light. R canned. More stress. Another day of poor value.
First of the earlies, bit of a stressful week beckons. A tiny detail – value is shite for the day.
What I wore on a day off. Cycled to the allotment. Did a few chores, put the coffee grounds round the plants. Brief chats with a few people. Then cycle back, grab a pint on the way as I was sweating buckets. Home and quick change of clothes before C gets in from her day with Vicky.
My reflection today – not particularly inspired but there you go. Bleach the bathroom floor… C a wee bit stressed by the toilet which she is convinced is leaking.
