On Saturday we had a Plan. I needed to collect a prescription from the doctor's, which closes at 10.30am on Saturdays (and I wanted the prescription because my PPA prepay certificate was to run out on the 15th). I needed a new bike since, in addition to the previous problems one of the pedals looked like it was about to fall off, I'd snapped a gear cable earlier in the week, and the previous morning I'd discovered a flat tyre and just to complete my morning my chain fell off about 5 minutes after I had left for work. My version of the plan was: go to the doctor's, go to the bike shop. However,
After lunch we took
So after tea, instead of carrying out our Plan to tidy up, I rebuilt the bookshelf (which admittedly did involve tidying up the contents which had been thrown out of it, and it needed doing so it wasn't a waste of time) while
The next morning I think the Plan was that
And after lunch we went to collect
Which meant that over the weekend we still hadn't made much progress on the tidying-up thing. Ah well. A bit of deft moving-things-around on Tuesday evening meant that our minister did have a place to sit when he visited to go through the Christening service with us and the living room wasn't a total disaster area.
On Monday lunch time I did finally get my whizzy new bike. Well, possibly not so whizzy - it was the same price as my old one had been about seven years ago (though that was a mistake - it should have been £10 more than the price tag actually said). I got £20 knocked off (which then became £30 in order to make up for the aforementioned mistake) for trading in my old bike, which was a pleasant surprise (I'd been told I would get £10 for it). It does have several improvements compared to the old one: 3x6 grip-shift gears instead of 2x5 index-shift ones (though frankly I wonder why I actually need that many gears given that the top gear doesn't seem to be any higher than on the old one), better brakes and a bike stand (if that's what it's called - a little leg that folds out and props the bike up so you can leave it free standing).
On Tuesday after meeting
So on Wednesday I went back there to give them an advanced payment. The manager, deputy manager and supervisor all weren't available, so I paid one of the employees. Anyway, it does look like we will have some food. Hoorah.