Wednesday. 7.10 a.m. It's a bright and sunny morning as I write this, but, when I took Alfie out, around 6 o'clock, I discovered a light frost on the grass. We walked around Oldbrook Green and saw a van draw up at the bus shelter near 'The Cricketer's' pub the driver get out and sprayed anti-freeze spray on the windscreen and then attempt to scrape it off. I was thinking, as I saw this, why he hadn't done this before he'd started the journey and therefore driving with so much ice on his windscreen.
3.40 p.m. I'm continuing with the writing project. I got so far with the changes I've made so that I can introduce a new character, but I gave it a break as I work out the next stage of the plotting, which is perhaps the most challenging part of writing. The actual hard graft of writing is relatively easy. It's the structure of a piece that is difficult, working out what goes where who meets whom where and when etc.
Thursday. 6.55 a.m. I have mentioned the fact that the pharmacy which makes up my repeat prescriptions, Lloyd's within Sainsbury's store is closing, which means I have to find another pharmacy to make up the prescriptions. I wanted to use Lloyd's online system and order via their app. Several days ago I downloaded the app onto my iPad and began to set up an account, so the ordering would take place through that. All very well, and I'm happy to do that. But I didn't get the email which would mean I could input all the medication I take so that the pharmacy could make up my order. But it has now come this morning and I have spent around thirty minutes inputting everything as required. Quite fiddly, and I am now concerned that it will actually work when I need to order. As I have been using the tried and tested method of ordering my meds for around 15 years, about from the time I married Carol, all this change is a trifle unsettling until it has settled in and working successfully.
1.20 p.m. I've been to The Oaktree Centre to help with setting up the playgroup. I was more than a little bit surprised that Chaffron Way was more or less devoid of the usual gridlock I normally have to endure. It transpired, having spoken to people at The Oaktree Centre, about this lack of gridlock that it was most likely because school teachers are on strike today. If that's the case, is it possible that almost all of that traffic would have been parents taking their children to school? Seems crazy. Can't the majority of them either walk or go by bicycle? Ferrying children about is crazy. They should learn to be more self-reliant. I used to cycle to school and it never hurt me. In fact, I quite liked the idea of being independent.
Friday. 7.20 a.m. Another relatively mild morning on the weather front.
I was out with Alfie at around 5.50 this morning. Immediately outside on the pavement alongside Strudwick Drive there were two electric scooters, the type seen being ridden around Milton Keynes. They were there yesterday morning at the same time. It seems crazy to have them left like this and in the middle of the path which would get in the way of anyone either pushing a child in a buggy or someone in an electric scooter, such as those used by tenants at Dexter House. I assume, if you use one of these devices, you set up an account on your tablet or mobile, by downloading an app, and then, when you want to use one, you 'unlock' one using a pin or something and then ride off and then leave it at your point of arrival. I have seen the staff of the company who run these electric scooters come out and retrieve them, no doubt finding them because they have some sort of connection to GPS technology which would show where they are situated on a tablet, laptop or mobile device of some sort. It just seems crazy to me to have these scooters left in such problematic places which might be in the way of other users of the road, path or whatever and especially those with sight problems who might crash into them totally unaware they are in their way.
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