Thursday morning dawned fairly bright and sunny in south-east Essex so I decided to take myself off to the Thursday Car Boot Sale. Although the bus fare to get there is £3.20 (bus journey all of 7 - 8 minutes!!), it has often proved quite a good investment. Not yesterday!! The car boot was cancelled - there was a note on the gate explaining why but I couldn't see what it said from the bus window, I suspect the reason was water-logged ground. Now that was a bit of a b*gger although not a totally wasted journey as I did need to get some shopping in the mega Sainsbury's which is just across the other side of the roundabout from the car boot site. Having spent a somewhat shocking £32.00 there (my shopping trolley was only half full at best), I made my way home. One positive from yesterday's almost totally wasted bus fare was that I didn't have to wait any time at all for the buses - either there or back, something which is practically unheard of.
This morning I wondered whether to take myself off the Basildon for a quick tour of the charity shops and a visit to the town-centre church's 'Bargain Box Sale'. I'm afraid that after yesterday's debacle I thought better of it. I didn't really want to waste yet another £3.20 bus fare (yes, despite the fact that the journey is at least twice as long it is still the same fare - go figure!!) as the last time I went there I came home with a dozen or so books for re-sale all of which proved to be totally useless. So I decided to stay at home and get the grass cut before the next forecast rain arrived (it still hasn't so maybe that was another rubbish weather forecast). The grass was incredibly wet even though it hasn't rained for the last couple of days and it was quite a task to get the mower through it. When I'd finished I had to turn the mower over and start scraping off all the compacted grass and mud which had got stuck on the underside. I will say the grass is looking much better for it's short-back-and-sides and it was time well spent.
After putting the mower back in the shed I had to nip down to the Post Office to post a few parcels. The Post Office was very pleasantly quiet and it took me no time at all to be served. As I had a bit of time in hand I called into the local charity shop and picked up three books for re-sale. All three of them proved to be really good - an almost unheard of achievement these days - and it really made my day (I know, easily pleased).
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