MarilynParker

By MarilynParker

A wet walk

I was going to Mum's this morning for half past 11 and I needed to replace one of my geocaches in Taylor Park plus I had a hairdresser booking for 12:30 (cut and blow dry). I decided to walk to Taylor Park then perhaps get the bus a couple of stops nearer to Mum's and after seeing Mum I could walk to the hairdresser's. Even though it was chucking down I seemed to think this was a good plan.
I replaced the geocache and was a bit wet by this time because not only was it teeming but it was windy so the rain was blowing under the brolly!
Walked to the bus stop and got the bus 2 stops then walked the rest of the way to Mum's. Nobody in! I noticed Mike's car not there as I arrived but expected Mum to be there. I rang the bell and waited as it takes Mum a while to get to the door. Waited. Waited more. Rang bell again in case she had been on the loo. Waited and was getting wetter all the time despite the porch cover since the rain was driving at an angle due to the wind.
Eventually realised nobody was going to answer the door but I was way too early to go to the hairdresser. I popped a little note through jsut to say I'd called but it was on a tissue so may have fallen apart before they could read it!
I rang Terry for a winge and to pass the time but it kept going straight to answer machine and this has been a problem before for some reason - his phone just does not ring. I sent him a whatsapp and he got that so he restarted his phone and it was working again.
I walked to Morrisons and used the loo before continuing to the hairdresser and got there early but at least I could dry out a bit before my turn.
While having my hair done the hairdresser told me my Mum had been for her hair done at 11:30 and had only left about 10 minutes before I arrived! Mum must have forgotten I was going to see her or she had forgotten she had a hair appointment - or both!
Terry picked me up to take me home so I avoided the hair being ruined by the weather.
All in all though, I was glad we had some rain as I had very little sleep last night - I was very restless and hot despite the fan. It's rained quite a lot today and the temperature has dropped a lot.

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