When you have nothing much to say, ramble a little

I have no conscious thoughts as I type this blog..

In fact, I almost didn't write at all due to this fact.

And then I thought it might be interesting to see what came out.


On Saturday we took a journey up to Grandma's once more. The traffic was awful due to everyone crashing left right and centre on the M6. Part of the plan was to re-live the days of Salford when James would come up really early on a Wednesday morning after my 9am lecture and we would have a day out together, usually at the Trafford Centre. Wednesday was always the highlight of the week. Usually we would go to the cinema at the end of the day where I would cry for the last half hour of the film knowing that when the credits came the day would be at an end and James would head off down the motorway once more.

When we arrived at the queue for the Trafford Centre it stretched all the way onto the M60. James was not amused. (ahem.. I had made us over an hour late..) We crawled down the slip road and gradually made our way closer to the monstrocity of architecture that is the palace of shopping.

It says there are only 17 spaces left. We are in a queue of around 20 cars now. Dammit we have to beat them..

Crap. No spaces left. People are parking on verges..

700 spaces?!? How the hell?

A car park on the edge of the solar system opens and we trek across the car park, past the cargo containers, past the motorway, past the "you are now leaving the Trafford Centre" sign..

Damn it was cold.

Stupid idea to come to popular shopping centre on busiest shopping day of year. But still fun! Looked at lots of pretty things and made many hints.

At lunch we had a meal like we used to. The campest waitor in history served us, he was awful, unnattentive and made us wait ages for our drinks. Needless to say we gave no tip. (embarassed by this we left our money on the table and snook away!)

The film was awful. It was the cheesiest American feel good film I have ever seen and had many morals and Christmas lessons about sharing and being good to one another etc. etc. But it felt amazing to finish the film with a smile.

I relish every day I get to see the end of with James.