SomersTownLisa

London Life
2021-06-30 21:38:16 (UTC)

A very satisfactory day

My aims today were to get the Top 100 finished early, because we’re going away tomorrow, to get my diary up to date, and to do the company accounts for which the deadline is today. (They gave us three extra months to do it because of the pandemic, and I’ve still left it until the last possible day). To my great satisfaction and a certain amount of surprise, I managed to achieve all those objectives, despite also having to attend a KYC meeting and try to sort out a legal “comfort” letter to an impossible deadline, with solicitors trying to pass off a shortened version, me not getting back to them about that because of the time element, then having to get back to them anyway at a late stage after our solicitors rejected their version.

We were going to cycle to Kentish Town for lunch, but as I was going to Argos first, we decided to see whether Saint Espresso had yet started doing their vegan breakfast again, as they keep promising. They hadn’t got that, but they did have another vegan option which also didn’t involve fake meat. While Jack was asking them, I picked up my CD-ROM player, which I can plug into my laptop. Argos is queue-free these days – maybe it’s just more efficient with all the online ordering.

In the evening, as Jack went to see his niece in a musical, I went to help at the City Farm, which I knew would be good fun because of who was going. Emma R pulled out, but Sree was there, who tonight I first saw picking up the glove which fell off my bike. It was lovely to see her as she’s become a great friend and I haven’t caught up with her for ages. Alex and Isabelle were there, back from Mexico, sweet Katriona, lively Alison, who I’ve both seen a lot of lately, a newish tall girl, Alina, and an older lady, Miriam, as well as quiet Heather. Alex is going to see the Subways soon. He's 30 next week.

After a discussion about the difference between a horse, donkey and pony, we were shovelling manure into wheelbarrows, though beacuse of the time the other girls took to take the manure to the other side of the farm, we were idle a lot of the time. I was in very lively mood and even had the confidence to aim quips at Isabelle. Afterwards I walked with, and Sree for a bit, and in trying to rediscover the cycle routes I found in last summer’s lockdown, I went slightly back on myself and found that Alina had caught me up, walking.




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