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It started on Saturday morning when I suggested Paul and I went to Bluewater, by way of Ikea so Paul could look for a bookcase. Trevor had taken the evening off work, so we left a message to see what he and Jon were up to that evening, then headed out, rather later than we had intended… as usual.
We arrived to find it in a state of flux. It seems they are extending one end and when it’s finished it will be massive. As usual, we ended up coming home with loads of things we had not planned on buying and I now have not only new cushions for the settee, but a rug in the kitchen and several new cacti. They make the six I have been working very hard to keep alive the last five years look rather dowdy when stood beside them.
It was fairly quiet. Perhaps there was a football match on. It still took us until four to get out again, though, and drive back to Chelmsford past at least a dozen squashed hedgehogs. I guess the start of summer has brought them out of hibernation at last, and they have forgotten how to tackle dual carriageways. There was a live one crawling around in the road next to the flat yesterday morning. By this afternoon it too was doing a good impression of a boot scraper.
We stopped off at Paul’s parents for tea and cakes, and while Paul fiddled on with the cars I picked up my voicemail
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