Lets see what has been going on. I made writing group this Monday and enjoyed it. They decided that they would meet at one of the individuals homes rather than at St Andrews for the workshop on Saturday so I had the task of unsetting the heating.
I must admit Tuesday and Wednesday are rather blank. The only thing of note was Stuart came around on Wednesday for a shower. The boiler failed at his bed sit just right in the coldest spell of the winter. His Landlady who is another member of St Andrews was away in Northern Ireland at the time looking after her father. So he did not feel able to get a plumber in to fix it. It was a fortnight before she was back and she could call a plumber. There has since been a temporary repair but he has been using my blower heater and coming around for showers. I think it largely reflects Stuarts lack of get up and go, as I pretty sure in the circumstances he could have called a plumber out to fix the boiler and then charged the amount to his Landlady as essential work. Anyway he was around for a shower, he wanted to come this Monday but as I am at writers group its a no can do situation.
Thursday I was down to Birmingham. A day with nothing untoward happening. So I started off wrongly by leaving my diary in work, so had to go round via work however I caught the tram down instead of walking. Got to the station and there were NO queues to collect tickets!!!! I just walked up to the machine to collect mine and got it. Oh the coffee shop had no soya milk so it was a black decaff Americano instead and there was someone sitting in my seat, she tried to say it was the window seat but it wasn't that on the overhead and I had requested an aisle seat. Got the next train out to the University, and went to Ryman's to buy a sketch book, a clipboard (for Saturday) and a pencil case then went onto the Arts building and found somewhere to eat lunch. Maybe I should have fought my way through to a computer (role on Easter when there are few undergrads about) but reading through my papers for a supervision and having lunch seemed better. Then up to supervision. I must think the most intensely I ever do during that half hour. I certainly come out of a supervision in something of a daze. I happened to leave the building at the same time as another mature postgrad. We compared notes on scarcity of literature. His PhD is on mining in Staffordshire and he could find one e-journal. I was busy envying him. We don't have a paper journal let alone an e-journal yet. Admittedly as the area is cross disciplinary I have a massive collection of books to at least look at. The journey back was smooth. I think I got the 4:00 p.m. train rather than the 4:30 p.m. The train was a swish new one. The colour was distinctly different, there were less table seats and the reservations were all by card as they had not got the system working. The taxi driver running me home was superb, got me to the top of Gell St in the rush hour in less than ten minutes. We they had to wait, because cars were insisting on going through a junction they weren't supposed to and so our route was blocked. It totally was not his fault, a bit more consideration by others would have done wonders for the situation.
Friday was busy too. On the morning I got up for breakfast. Then Sarah and I turned up for Greek, unfortunately Ted was on his way to Folkestone to see his mother so we had to cancel Greek, I went into work stopping off at a PJ Taste, a sandwich shop I like, only to be asked if I knew of anyone who had a parking space they could use Monday to Friday. Well mine is normally free during that time and they offered me £50 per month. Not really sure on the going rate and I cannot guarantee that space will be free but if they become the established users of that space then I am pretty sure they won't have problems. Then into work, nothing remarkable happened, but ended up poping home at lunch time only to find the gas board had stopped my direct debit. Supposedly at my request but I am pretty sure I did not request it. So got on the phone to them to get it re-instated. If there is more hassle from this I will be cross. Then up to the Dickson's on the evening. The highlight of the meal was the pineapple they had got from Waitrose that was Costa Rican in origin. It really was nice and got me to over eat.
Saturday was a migraine day. I guess I over did things on Friday which was a pity as I intended going to my writings groups workshop of plotting. Today I went over to Chesterfield, had a pleasant service. I really enjoyed it. I got two interviews arranged one for this Tuesday and one for next Tuesday. Lets see how things work through.
This week is fairly quiet, Monday I have writers group, then Wednesday I may go to the bible reading when St Andrews Sheffield take part in Yorkshire Synods attempt to read through the bible. Then next weekend I am visiting my parents. So there may not be a letter next week.
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