Tuesday, 5 January 2016

It's 2016 - time to get going

Totally determined to get out for the first time this year today so I headed back to Northway, Aughton. Conditions weren’t brilliant and I realised how much I’d taken those dry summer outings for granted. Very soggy underfoot but given that the section of the road was actually flooded just after Christmas and it has hardly stopped raining since that wasn’t much of a surprise. I managed to gather 2 bags of rubbish working back from the county border toward Ormskirk. Just the start of a very good week in which I plan to make at least 2 more collections.


I’m never bothered about appearances. I tidy up quite well but what my hair does after it has been brushed in the morning is its own business. Today I may have been more aware of such things after seeing Simon Rimmer talking about how restaurants place diners like products, beautiful people in the window etc to enhance the restaurant’s image. So, as I pulled off my builders’ gloves and yanked the hood on my waterproof jacket on over the woolly hat which was keeping my ears warm this afternoon I did think I should pay more attention to style. I just had the tiny thought passersby may actually want to avoid me. Do I more closely resemble a bag lady than a friendly, approachable, slightly eccentric member of the community making my contribution? Thing is I stopped wearing make up because I kept forgetting and rubbed my eye time after time! Is there any hope even if I wanted to dress things up? I mean I’m collecting rubbish.

 

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