Location location location

Am still looking for somewhere else to stay in Welwyn.  A couple of prospective landlords suggested Hatfield.  It's a bit of a dump.  I think I ant a place where I can walk to work.

Looked at a place that was almost perfect.  Nice sizeable room, desk, storage, and walking distance to work.  20% less than I'm paying Val.  Lovely landlady.  Place much less cluttered.  Nice garden.

No hob.

Seriously - how do people survive on microwave ready meals and occasional grilled food!?  That just seems such a miserable way of living.

Did visit cath_er_ine.  She mentioned boss has places to let.  More importantly she made a really tasty mushroom stroganoffy type thing.  Yum! 

Am pondering about buying property.  Perhaps I shouldn't be quite so fussy about location.  Thing is, I am really very fond of Brighton.  On the other hand, it seems to be the most inconvenient location for doing what I do.  Getting to anywhere I need to go around London.  Even if I wanted a permanent job, there's not really anyone in Brighton that wants people to do what I do.

Still not got any plans for my birthday.  Nobody wants to come to Brussels with me, which isn't actually a surprise since it requires people who can take time off and have money.  People are interested. It's just not practical for anyone. 

Might just head to the beach.  Anyone else?

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So, after chronic absent mindedness, I finally get round to booking that trapeze course.  I was hopoing to do it online but they only do telephone bookings.  I discovered this at 10:30 one evening so felt it was too late.  Monday I was too sleep deprived to remember anything.  Tuesday I was busy.  So I call.

"Your calling credit is running low"

72p might be cutting things a bit close.  So onto the Vodafone website.  Get as far as the security for my card.  It gives a somewhat muddled error that tells me both that I didn't provide correct information and that the service is unavailable at this time and I should try again later.  Or their error handling wasn't expecting this particular issue.  Try another couple of times.  Give up and call. 

I hate automated telephone systems.  They insist on referring to themselves as "I".  It is not a person. It is a machine.  It is not at all sorry.  But eventually I type all my detail in and it does "get" it.

So all this is doen. I get a recorded messge.  "Office hours are 10am to 8:30pm Monday to Thursday..." 

IT'S 7:55PM!!!! 

Perhaps somebody is telling me I don't want to do this.