SomersTownLisa

London Life
2021-10-21 10:48:30 (UTC)

Wednesday 20/10/2021

Wednesday 20/10/2021
We went to Oxfam but they wouldn’t take our rags for recycling, only the wearable clothes. We looked up Delancey Street for a clothe recycling point, but couldn’t find it. After lunch at Lumi, we took some cash to the bank for Jack to put in, that his mum had given him, but they told him he couldn’t do it with his new card. This same branch, the cheque deposit machine isn’t working and they rejected my cheque last week because it was made out to Jack as well. But we haven’t got a joint account.

I had a chat with my boss about getting more involved with financial aspects, and managed to get this down as an objective. Left work at 2 minutes to 4, changing my skirt and therefore leaving the face mask at home. I had an unsuccessful look in the Co-op for a mask, but still got the intended train from King’s Cross, embarrassed to be mask-less but wanting to get to a task by 16:30. I managed the two-minute changeover at Liverpool Street despite having no idea where Overground trains left from. Eventually I got on the train at the same time as it was due to leave; luckily the doors were still open.

Once again the post code provided was wrong (it showed where a second site of the school used to be) so I went out of Cambridge Heath station the wrong side. I corrected myself using CityMapper, only to find the school apparently locked. I found another entrance and the security man told me to go round the corner. I then realised I’d visited the site before.

Two other people had signed up, but I was the only one to appear. I was receiving food orders on slips and finding the appropriate bags. I was due to finish at 17:30 but carried on until 17:50, as I calculated this would give me plenty of time to get to the match. This meant I overlapped with Eva (and her boyfriend) and Leo, neither of whom can make the quiz as she’s moving house, and he’ll be in Shropshire.

Afterwards, I found the correct way to the tube station, but had to backtrack and get a mask – the Co-op don’t have them any more, but I got one from a chemist, which said you needed a mask to enter. Surprisingly there were Chelsea fans on the train. The match was surprisingly even in the first half, less so after the interval. I’d lost another hat somewhere (my third in two weeks) and I hadn’t got an umbrella so got very wet going home. Inevitably I forgot I’d left my bike at King’s Cross.

The Government has finally acknowledged the rising number of coronavirus cases but aren't going to do anything about it at the moment, Most other countries think the UK is being reckless.




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