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The perfect follow-up to lameness. I took this on Saturday or so, and despite having a whole two day weekend I failed to upload it. I wasn't even doing anything much most of the time. :(
Monday: I worked 11-4. Bras were involved. We did fittttings. Lots of them. I took Kate to school, hung around a bit, had a coffee (at Nero?) and ate my sandwich in the staff room before work.
A woman tried to return a bra on the grounds that it was faulty because the small decorative bow between the cups had fallen off. NOT A FAULT. She was trying to make out that this meant it was rubbish. She said she'd handwashed it so it probably happened when she was wearing it, the part in the middle gets bent and squeezed quite a lot so it's not surprising. But anyway. A small part of the decoration coming off doesn't make the bra unwearable. It doesn't cause her pain or discomfort. We do returns as a goodwill gesture, there's no legal imperative for us to do it! I was feeling hassled and busy as there was only me so I sent her to womenswear where they had a supervisor. I didn't hear any more about it but I've got a nasty feeling that she told them that I'd said she could have a refund. Eugh.
Tuesday: Bras 11-4 again. I considered making a lunchbox but didn't, ended up with a BLT from Pain Et Vin and a mini packet of Oreos.
This time we had a woman who tried to return some knickers she'd bought in September. It says on every receipt that there's a 28 day returns policy unless something is faulty or damaged. I said no. She said she "didn't get into the city much". My supervisor said no. A manager said no. A senior manager said no. The woman told him it was absurd, she took a photo of him on her phone, she got angry. She was escorted out of the store.
I'd saved some of my oreos for after and they made me feel a bit better (I was surprisingly exhausted). Then I picked Kate up and we went home.
Wednesday: I worked 11-4 and had scrambled egg on toast beforehand. I was feeling pretty tired and tummy achey and started sneezing, one customer told me to go home because "it's not worth it dear". Another asked me if I'd been to Mexico recently. Hmmm. It's not swine flu. After work I had to wait for Kate to rehearse her charity fashion show (practice walking around) so I went and sat in Goodland Gardens and ate my apple. Thrilling. It might've been on Wednesday that I bought some poppadoms and a packet of vanilla sugar flavoured pumpkin seeds from the reduced section of the county stores. The seeds were yummy, I think I ate them on Friday or Saturday...
Thursday: I took Kate in, parked at the park and ride, fruitlessly searched Primark for navy leggings, bought some brownie from the nice lady at the Farmers' Market and walked to the station where I bought a coffee and caught a train to Bristol. The train was one of those little chuggy 2 carriage ones and stopped at places I'd never heard of (Weston Milton anyone? Parson Street?). It had a few abandoned copies of Metro, one of which I adopted. I did the Su Dokus, drank my coffee and got far too hot. I thought I might be feverish but when I got off the train at Temple Meads I realised that it was just a ridiculously overheated train! The conductor was very nice and jolly. I think he had a morning of going back-and-forth between Taunton and Bristol, the train had come from Bristol and terminated at Taunton before I got on it.
Annyway. I got out of Temple Meads and found some signposts to direct me towards Park Street. It was raining but I decided against a ferry to Cabot Circus or various buses. I walked past lots of nice looking little sandwich shops and some old bits of brewery and across the river. I saw the old court buildings which are boarded-up and a little forlorn looking. Then I turned down a side street (where there was a Bento shop!) and went through St Nicholas Markets. All the little shops and stalls are lovely. I resisted buying lots of beads and pretty things, and huuuuge chocolate twists. I did buy some ribbon and some lacy stuff (which I will make into flowers) from a nice little craft/haberdashery shop.
Then I went up Park Street, buying books from Fopp and looking in all the nice little shops on my way up. I almost bought some nice trousers in Fat Face but they were £45 not £20, I'd read the belt tag :(
Thennn I went to see the Crimes of Passion show at the Royal Western Academy of Art as featured on Knautia's photostream. Basically they let lots of Bristol's best street artists into the galleries and they filled it with all sorts of fun & interesting stuff, including dead pigeons, amazing wall art and a sculpture of Bristol in dinosaur form. I bought the catalogue thingy so now I have a little bit of information on them all. I also took a few photos (I didn't use flash and there was nothing to say one couldn't... plus I think the small children running into things were doing more damage than I could've...) I tried to go and see the display of Knautia's photos of the making of the show, but there was a load of art being "curated" next door which meant I couldn't get in :(
After the arts I went and had a little look in Paperchase in Boarders, then got a sandwich from Sainsbury's. I was wandering back down a bit when I spotted the City Museum & Art Gallery, so I went and had a look (it's free :D) I bought some amusing looking postcards (a pre-Easyjet Bristol Airport, old chinaware, gorilla) and resisted the China related tat from their recent exhibition. Then I went upstairs. There is a part of the museum which seems to be entirely devoted to animals which used to be in Bristol zoo... until they died and were stuffed. There are some terrifying things in there. In a way it's nice that they've saved the old animals so they can still look at their DNA & things and don't have to fill the zoo with new exotic things to teach people about them. On the other hand it's really creepy!
They also have lots of native wildlife and some pseudo-science. I have photos of this too, if I stop being rubbish and get round to uploading them you'll be able to see what I mean... There were concerned looking foreign people and a few small children looking at the animals too. One of the children got very excited when it spotted Bambi... It's mother pointed out that Fantastic Mr Fox was there too.
I then went to Starbucks and got a huuuuge coffee and sat downstairs. I rested, finished my sandwich and brownie and wrote my postcards. I spent about an hour in there in all. Then I set off back down the road, bought stamps and posted my poastcards.
I decided to go and see if I could find the nice shirt dress I'd tried on in H&M the previous time but in the right size, so I went across to Broadmead. I did find it, and I bought it in black and white (it's so soft... like wearing pajamas in the daytime :)).
Then I walked back to Temple Meads, arriving at the bottom of the steps just as the 17:14 train was leaving the platform above. Boo. So I waited and caught the 17:40-something. Luckily it was a cross-country one so I didn't have to endure an hours worth of stops at minor stations.
After I'd coughed and sniffed enough to alarm the bloke sitting next to me, the train left me in Taunton at about 20 past 6. I almost ran up to the bus stop to no avail. I missed the 18:30 Park & Ride bus and was faced with the prospect of half an hour's wait for a bus which would get me to the car park at about 19:20 (they go via Musgrove Park Hospital in the late evening) and thus make me quite late for Kate's Fashion Show which started at 7 o'clock. So I tried phoning Mum (who was trying to get out of work in time to come to the show) but she didn't answer, so I tried Dad. Luckily he'd only just got to his lecture at SCAT (early) and was able to scoop me up and take me round to the car park so that I got up to school at about five to seven.
I met Mum in the foyer, we collected our tickets, bought far too many raffle tickets and sat down to watch the show. It was a fundrasing event organised by one of the girls day houses and involved fashion shows featuring clothes from Fat Face and "Wow! Dancer" (a local prom dress & dancing shop) as well as a couple of dance pieces by the girls. A man representing Cancer Research got up and said a few things beforehand and they showed us a slideshow of people who died from cancer (ie Bob Marley) and people who survived (Lance Armstrong, Jill from Basingstoke etc).
They had lots of teacher's children and some teachers modelling the Fat Face clothes as well as some of the girls, and the prefects (Kate) all got to wear the fancy dresses. Their hair and make-up had been done by people from a local salon, it was all rather amazing. I helped Kate take off her make-up afterwards and it was unbelieveably orange (with a black "smoky" eye), there was enough make-up in one of her eyebrows to use up a cotton bud. Mum and I failed to win anything in the raffle (it included Berry's London Superfast tickets, £100 in Fat Face vouchers, a fancy hamper, £57 worth of hairdo, a nice flower arrangement). The way they did the raffle wasn't entirely brilliant, several of the colours of tickets looked very similar, and they picked an awful lot of the two brightest colours...
Anyway. Afterwards we got Chinese takeaway and went home to find that the bloke who was meant to be doing Dad's talk at SCAT hadn't shown up at all and he'd just come home.
Friday: Ummm. I worked 1.05-6.05. Not sure anything vastly exciting happened. I was still ill. I was going to go for drinks with Meg and Caroline as Caroline was going back to Norwich on Saturday but she had a migraine so we didn't. Boo again.
Saturday: Umm Again. I did not much all day. I took far too many photos in the garden. I finished reading Sanditon by Jane Austen (she didn't finish writing it). I made flowers from the lace I bought in Bristol. They're nice, but I need to work on what goes in the middle. Hmmm.
Sunday: Made second lace flower. It has a rubbish middle which I may need to sort out. Started making my little pink and orange felt bird. Cut pretty things out of magazines a bit.
Mum and I went to Wayford Manor which is a lovely Elizabethan house on the edge of Dorset with a lovely garden. It has an Italianate archy bit which looks out across the valley and lots of terraces and ponds and japanese bits and beautiful trees. It's lovely. Although not as high as Coleton Fishacre on my list of places I'd like to live. We took far far too many photos and had coffee and scone/cake :o. Then we saw a nice duck and went down the lane to Wayford Wood. Wayford Wood is a bit of wood which I think belongs to some sort of trust who keep the paths clear, the trees healthy and the pump for the stream running. It's full of bluebells at this time of year, and all the rhodadendrons and cherry trees were out. The beeches had new leaves and the handkercheif tree was looking particularly handkercheify. It was sunny too. Lovely! And there's a lakey pondy thingy which I remember pond dipping in when I was younger.
After a nice walk in the woods and the taking of lots more photos we got back in the car and started off home. We went down the hill from Wayford and across a small river/large stream which Mum took to be the Axe (meaning that we were now in Dorset). When we came to a T-junction there were signs to Crewkerne and Lyme Regis. Mum spotted another bridge in the Lyme Regis direction and decided we weren't in Dorset yet and should go there. So we turned that way and did indeed cross several more bridges, including one with a DORSET sign next to it. Then we decided we'd had enough of Dorset and wanted to go home rather than further into it. Mum turned off down a small road (not suitable for heavy vehicles) and we had a close encounter with a small tractor. Then we got the map out and found our way to Chard and thence to that-road-that-goes-from-Taunton-to-everywhere-in-South-Somerset. Twas exciting.
Hmmm. Generalment. I'm a bit ill still, my senses of taste and smell are partly back but I can't taste everything or smell muck spreading. Some way to go, clearly.
I'm still going to America, unless swine flu gets much worse. I'm sitting it out.regis hair salon
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