Monday, November 30, 2009
Busy little Pilgrims
I feel so tired this evening.
I am too often tired. I wake up yawning!
I wonder if it is because of the urine infection that I have obviously had for well over a year.
There are no other symptoms obvious to me.
Maybe just now the antibiotics are affecting me - nitrofurantoin. I have never had this one before.
But the weather is tiring too.
This morning it was just horrible as we drove to Dorking through heavy rain. Inside the car we were protected from the cold northerly wind, but it blew hard.
As predicted the rain stopped by about midday.
The drive home was much better - hey! - we could see the almost full moon!
The moon is always lovely - but being able to see it at all was a bonus after the heavy grey clouds.
It is getting colder - but if that brings clear skies I won't feel so bad.
And then of course the day has been tiring.
Julie didn't come to the shop at all - too much water in the Epsom area.
Monika was busy with her own things.
And I was busy too with my own things for a while. I had a little lockable cabinet with me and so I enjoyed arranging paperweights and other small and potentially nickable items in it.
My other activity is also my own business really - taking photos for the shop blog.
It is for my pleasure as much as anything - but I was pleased that Jonathan, who I had phoned about a best price for some plates, was fulsome with praise and was grateful that it was being done.
Here is Monika on the steps up to where my area is, writing her price tickets.
As soon as she came in this morning I threatened to photograph those boots!
They are personalised cheapish wellingtons.
She and a friend have thought about making more and taking them to the rock festivals (like Glastonbury) next summer to sell.
Monika was out for an hour or so at lunchtime.
So Bill and I have dealt with all the selling - we both had sales today.
I felt I was the one to deal mostly with Mr No Short Term Memory. He was in the shop for ages this afternoon. Some of his conversation can seem almost normal and then he asks the same question over and over again - the same ones every week. "Do you like Storrington?" "Why don't you like The Lanes?" "Is it rare?" "Have you been to Salcombe?"
He spent a long time looking at a bagatelle game I have - and then bought a very cheap chamber pot!
I popped out for a few minutes at the end of the day to buy a few bits. We came home with half price sausages in the Paul Rankin range (he a celebrity chef). They were good.
I think I should have an early night. It is all too easy to to decide to have just one more game!
I am too often tired. I wake up yawning!
I wonder if it is because of the urine infection that I have obviously had for well over a year.
There are no other symptoms obvious to me.
Maybe just now the antibiotics are affecting me - nitrofurantoin. I have never had this one before.
But the weather is tiring too.
This morning it was just horrible as we drove to Dorking through heavy rain. Inside the car we were protected from the cold northerly wind, but it blew hard.
As predicted the rain stopped by about midday.
The drive home was much better - hey! - we could see the almost full moon!
The moon is always lovely - but being able to see it at all was a bonus after the heavy grey clouds.
It is getting colder - but if that brings clear skies I won't feel so bad.
And then of course the day has been tiring.
Julie didn't come to the shop at all - too much water in the Epsom area.
Monika was busy with her own things.
And I was busy too with my own things for a while. I had a little lockable cabinet with me and so I enjoyed arranging paperweights and other small and potentially nickable items in it.
My other activity is also my own business really - taking photos for the shop blog.
It is for my pleasure as much as anything - but I was pleased that Jonathan, who I had phoned about a best price for some plates, was fulsome with praise and was grateful that it was being done.
Here is Monika on the steps up to where my area is, writing her price tickets.
As soon as she came in this morning I threatened to photograph those boots!
They are personalised cheapish wellingtons.
She and a friend have thought about making more and taking them to the rock festivals (like Glastonbury) next summer to sell.
Monika was out for an hour or so at lunchtime.
So Bill and I have dealt with all the selling - we both had sales today.
I felt I was the one to deal mostly with Mr No Short Term Memory. He was in the shop for ages this afternoon. Some of his conversation can seem almost normal and then he asks the same question over and over again - the same ones every week. "Do you like Storrington?" "Why don't you like The Lanes?" "Is it rare?" "Have you been to Salcombe?"
He spent a long time looking at a bagatelle game I have - and then bought a very cheap chamber pot!
I popped out for a few minutes at the end of the day to buy a few bits. We came home with half price sausages in the Paul Rankin range (he a celebrity chef). They were good.
I think I should have an early night. It is all too easy to to decide to have just one more game!
