For a weekend that started off with no real plan, it has been a brilliant yet very active few days.<\/p>\n
Saturday included the usual household\/laundry chores, plus a trip to the tack shop to buy Vin a new stable rug, and a trip to Sainsbury’s to replenish food stocks.<\/p>\n
And a trip to the cinema to see Gambit (3\/5, awesome cast, baggy plot).<\/p>\n
And long chats with my daughter.<\/p>\n
And long, long, long chats with a couple of friends who are going through various transitions in their lives.<\/p>\n
These things seem to be a bit like buses. Nothing for ages and then three or four relationship problems all at once.<\/p>\n
One has been made trickier because I feel a great connection with one of my friends in particular. It was only a year ago that my own marriage failed. And I am sensitive to my friend’s predicament, and sensitive to this time of year.<\/p>\n
I also spent some time firming up my plan to spend Christmas and New Year somewhere else. Anywhere else. \u00a0I just don’t want to spend Christmas and New Year here.<\/p>\n
Sunday involved picking up a friend from Thornhill Park & Ride, taking a trip out to see (and throw carrots at) Vin, a quick flip back home to show off the palatial home (hahaha), and then a drive in to Oxford for lunch.<\/p>\n
We ate at Brown’s in Oxford Market. Brown’s (sic) is the home of the misplaced apostrophe. Or the menu is.<\/p>\n
After eating we walked through Oxford, gawping at people and getting a little culturish and vulturish.<\/p>\n
I may have talked some deliberately misleading bullshit about one or two of the colleges. But that’s alright. They deserve it.<\/p>\n
Oh, and no, Jesus didn’t actually go to college there.<\/p>\n
This evening I’ve come in, unloaded the washing machine, tried and failed to deal with a couple of emails and talked to my daughter and two friends.<\/p>\n
Fell asleep on the couch, briefly.<\/p>\n
And now, like a dragon in his den, I’m out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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