Today I have been tied to the computer since crack of dawn so am having to rely on yesterday's numbers. That and the fact that I still struggle to Tell people if I don't have at least a 24 hours' build up.
I raced down to the post office, single-mindedly focused on getting there before it closed and somehow that single-mindedness stayed with me. I Told no-one, with all those people milling about the market place I could have managed something. It puts me in mind of a person I know who has tunnel vision, and describes it as being like 'looking at the world through a letter box'. Interestingly, their world seems to be shrunk too, never travelling away and rarely going to places off their usual path through town. Hmmmm, perhaps it is time for me to look a little wider....
Anyway, part of the rushing included calling in on a girlfriend to give her a joint birthday present. But, what do you give someone who just doesn't really want anything? (happy with her lot, rather than rich). Ah, well I had thought flowers would be good - some nice flowering plants to grow in the garden and then look out on all summer. Seems this is not necessarily the case as it turns out they are planning to redesign the garden over the next three weeks so it would only get squashed or dug up. So on to plan B. Fortunately my other pal has loads of tubs spare, so we can house them in those for the moment.
Presents, after the age of about 6 they're impossible. (Except, if you remember, that £160 box of chocolates from Hotel Chocolat. Surely anyone would like that?)
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