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Posted by: Eddie2sox Wednesday 17th October 2007, 8:16pm
Last edited 17/10/2007 8:16pm by Eddie2sox

Well, that was some day! Better get used to it though, that's how Wednesday's going to be for a while....

OK, to sum up yesterday, I DID go to the gym in the end, then Sam was here in the afternoon. After dropping Sam off I stupidly/bravely decided to get cracking on the delivery of the papers, despite the rain absolutely lashing down. I got soaked through to the nether regions again, but after 2 ¼ hours I’d delivered about 140 out of the 600. Arrived home sodden but just a little bit smug, had a cuppa and went to bed! On the way home I had a real battle of willpower to stop popping to the shop for some beers, which I won. Yay for me.

On to Wednesday. With 460-ish more free-ads to stuff into letterboxes I was up early and in and out of The Woolpack by 10 (next week aiming for 90 minutes earlier too). Home to put leaflets in the last few papers, then off we go again and I found myself nearly enjoying the work, despite the bags being pretty heavy for a start. Last week I was looking for a lot of the places to deliver to, this week I knew most already which made it much easier. The weather helped too, bright and sunny with not too much wind blowing. I guess I hit the road about 11 and finished JUST before picking Sam up, so that was about 3. A total of 6 hours delivering. The leaflets took longer this week as there were nine of them, but that means more money too. In theory, this week’s round should earn £63 or there abouts, not too bad. Also on the way round several people commented how they didn’t usually get the paper until Friday, some even said they’d never had one before. What on earth were the previous deliverers doing, or more to the point, which skip were they filling? So, the flat feels empty again with the mountains of paper gone, but I feel I had a decent amount of exercise to make up for not going to the gym today.

On arrival at home there was a delivery van outside, and the bloke had a parcel for me. From Seabrook’s Crisps no less. So now there’s a big cardboard box containing the following flavours:

Cheese And Onion X 6

Sea Salted X 6

Bacon And Brown Sauce

Beefy X 3

Hot & Spicy Two Chilli (Jalapeno & Habanero) X 2

Worcester Sauce X 3

Tomato Ketchup X 3

Prawn Cocktail X 3

Sea Salt & Vinegar X 3

Roasted Garlic

Chicken & Stuffing X 3

Hot & Spicy Wasabi (Japanese Horseradish) X 2

Pickled Onion

Hot & Spicy Hot English Mustard X 2

Cream Cheese & Chives

Cheesy

Hot & Spicy Oriental Peking Ribs X 2

Canadian Ham

Smoky Bacon

How’s about that then. All because of a daft competition I ran on this blog, top banana Mister Seabrook’s, thanks!

Sam is still a bit under the weather but seems to suffer from it more immediately after you ask him how he’s feeling, thus reminding him that he’s ill. Still, we had a quiet afternoon again, and he was eating for England. He started off with a big bowl of multi-grain cereal, then a bowl of grapes. Tea was chicken breasts marinated in honey/soy sauce/lemon juice and a packet of steam veg. And then he still found room for a banana for pudding, amazing. I know he’s on a bit of a growth spurt but come on. Bathtime was great fun as I accidentally filled the bath right up to the overflow, oooops-a-daisy bolognaisy. So a nice time with my little (getting bigger) star.

On the way back I again battled the urge to buy some beer and settled for tea instead. Since I got home I’ve been sorting out items to update The Scrapbook on Sunday, gathering receipts, maps, tickets etc. I also ordered a few more photos which should be here by the weekend so I can bring the book right up to date. Next is to start reading through Bwana’s business improvement model in case he gets offered a contract he‘s had a sniff of, and in turn employs me (fingers crossed).

And so tomorrow looks pretty good, picking Sam up from school at noon so we have a whole afternoon of bonus time together. Got to love that idea. Also planning to get back to the gym again, not sure whether to go before or after the time with Sam - thinking after would be a better idea, good hormones to cancel out feeling sad seems like a good plan. Also have to get in touch with Legoland tomorrow to start sorting out our trip there next week, exciting or what?

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