Today has been a pretty near perfect day. Granted, it's not yet 2pm, so there's plenty of time for that to change, but it's going great so far.
Despite being up until nearly 3am, I was awake at 8am, and online, needing to check my bank balance to see exactly how much my profit bonus and wages were. I was thrilled to discover that even after tax and NI, my wages were £872 and my bonus was £327 ... though not *quite* as thrilled an hour later when I picked up my payslip and found that over £160 of my gross bonus amount had gone to the government, along with £280 of my gross wages ... ouch! Moving swiftly on though, after checking my bank account, I headed straight over to LastMinute.com to book my trip. Although I've ended up paying a bit more than had I been able to book further ahead, I've got my room of choice (double, non-smoking) at my hotel of choice (the Comfort Inn Parnell Square) on my chosen dates - Wednesday 29th March - Friday 31st March. Plus, I was able to get my desired flights with British Airways, flying out at 0625 on Wednesday (up at 2:30am - ugh!) and back on Friday at 6:40pm, so I should be home by 10pm at the very latest.
Having booked that, I went into town with Mum, grabbed a few travel size toiletries, my favourite Wonka Whipplescrumptious Fudge Mallow bar, some bird food, and a drink, then caught the bus into Brighton, where I pottered around for a little over an hour. I bought a black t-shirt in Bon Marche, wandered into Poundland, Argos, WHSmiths, HMV - where I bought a silicone skin for my iPod, to stop it getting any more scratches. My next stop was EAT - an outside permanent deli stall, where I bought a spicy crayfish noodle salad to have for lunch when I got home.
Over the road to the bus stop, and straight on the bus home, then into Waitrose where I bought some reduced lamb hanks which I'll cook shortly, and lots of healthy salad ingredients to have with the cold lamb and some new potatoes. Despite starting off absolutely freezing, it's turned into a perfect spring day, and the journey home on the bus reinforced that ... huge swathes of daffodils, primroses and crocuses on the verges and banks, a blue sky unmarred by clouds, and little white lambs gambolling around in the fields ... I think spring may have sprung at last!
Next was lunch at home, and I'm pleased to say that in keeping with the rest of the day, the crayfish salad was great! I only wish I could get the same thing here without travelling to Brighton!
Now I'm relaxing in bed with the radio on, and the laptop, about to browse for more Dublin ideas, and order my euros ... if only every day could be like this!
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