Today we went on a jolly. It involved the following, which on the face of it appear quite unjolly, events.
- A very early start
- A car journey
- No train
- A bus replacement
- A young woman who talked nonsense at high volume, without a breath and mainly about herself, for an hour and a half.
- A train
- The hi-vis pupils of The School for the Extra-ordinarily Excited who joined us.
- A twenty minute walk through a Stepford-esque estate when we saw not one person, but for a rather reticent postman.
- Several hours of intense retail immersion.
- The purchase of unnecessary and cluttering items, to add to the rest.
- More spooky houses and no people.
- A long wait on a windy, cold train station, situated underneath a flight path, with views to the motorway and seats that only a yogic master would find comfortable.
- A train – not ours
- A train – cancelled
- A train – not ours
- A train – ours
- The returning pupils who had not worn themselves out one iota.
- A dash to the replacement bus.
- A man who wittered on for an hour as he was busy for the other thirty minutes sniffing and drinking cider.
- A car journey home.
- Collapse.
A great time was had by all.
Off The Edge Gardening 
It does not sound jolly. More tiring than not. Interesting though I’m sure.
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It was a marathon! But an adventure of a minor sort.
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It sounds very much like some of the excursions I had with students when I was teaching. There are similarities all over the world.
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So true! I have definitely found that with gardens across the world. We are more alike than unlike.
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Have you seen ‘Trains, Planes and Automobiles’?
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Hey, that was filmed all over Southern California. There was actually a hunt for the ‘Big W’. The trees are now gone.
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I haven’t but it did spring to mind when we arrived home!
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So you (5) and OH (19) had a nice day out doing some shopping with added excitement. Nice. 😉
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But where did you go? And is that awful snowberry yours? Surely not. The plant from hell. It’s my cotoneaster horizontalis.
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Ha, yes it is a snowberry and I don’t like them either. There is a whole thicket of them at Button Moon and they are scheduled to get the chop, but the little flower in the dappled sunlight looked so pretty ……. Don’t worry I’m not going soft. They are still on the OUT list. We went to the new Ikea in Exeter and thought it would be fun to go on the train. The rest is history. 🙂
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Ha, you think you can get rid of them do you? You might as well try to get the better of Japanes Knotweed.
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Oh dear …..
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