No fox news to report nor venison. Squirrels and pigeons but they are not worth reporting unless I catch one of the buggers red handed despoiling the infrastructure around the lake.
Mark the joiner is back this morning for hopefully his last day of activity, apart from the fixing of some floorboards upstairs but that needs planning as the carpet will have to be taken up. THG has gone to the gym so I am in the shed “doing stuff”. I do have to nip out to buy flooring for the utility room which I will do a bit later as I also have to pop to Hemswell Court to pick up a pair of secateurs left there after Hannah & George’s wedding and to Hackthorne to pick up my framed SOS wafer (if you know you know). My other jobs include putting away the pickled onions I put in jars yesterday which is hardly a job tbh but needs doing and to marinade a couple of chichen breasts for tonight’s tea. You will forgive me if I occasionally slip into the Liverpudlian vernacular. I am married to a scouser after all. The latter needs a decision on the marinade which takes time obvs. Swat the www is for.
For some reason I woke up at midnight last night which actually turned out to be fortuitous as I had planned to book reward flights on BA this morning and the nearer to midnight you do it the better your chance of getting the flights you want. It turned out that when releasing reward flights BA do it at midnight GMT which was 1am BST. I repeated the process at 1am and successfully got my tix. The flight has the Club World Suites. The cognoscenti amongst you will know that this is important. With the old setup you really had to get first class tickets if at all possible but BA are doing fewer and fewer of these. The Club Suites are as good as the old first class so I’m happy enough. Just have to wait a couple of weeks to add the return leg before I can properly put together a schedule. Am looking at ‘nam, as they say. Or at least they used to. I never have. Until just now.
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Quite a bit of work to be done under shed decking. Really just putting off the day until it will need renewing. Mark was quite scathing about whoever put it in but TBH it has probs been there for over 20 years so we have had good wear out of it. In fact when mentioning this to Mark he said he just found an empty crisp packet with a 2003 sell by date.
Got to Hemswell and there was “nobody in today”. Ah well. Called in at Forge Arts in Hackthorne. They were shut because there was “something wrong with the door lock”. Ah well. Shit happens. Then on to Carpetrite. They didn’t have the exact same flooring in the 2m width so I got the nearest match. I guess that counts as a result considering the other errand (errant) successes or lack of.
Bit of a bonus in that I swung by Fosters on the way home and picked up a wodge of streaky bacon which will go nicely in the chicken and avocado salad tonight. Funnily enough I had chicken salad after golf last night! No avo though. It was dark by the time we finished playing so the season is rapidly drawing to a close. Some of the lads struggle to get there earlier than 3.30pm and as soon as the clocks change we would need to be getting out at 10am really. I’ll be out of action until Christmas anyway because of my post hip hop recovery period. Not completely out of action but definitely out of sporting action.