Robbie decided that he absolutely had to work late on Thursday evening, I wasn't impressed because we have had so many disrupted meal times recently and the short notice meant I had to scrap my plans for an evening meal and start again. He promised that he would stay at home with me on Saturday to make up for his lateness and get some long overdue jobs done in the garden. When he got finally got home he was in a dreadful mood because I was forcing him to miss a momentous event – on Saturday the first properly owned CrossCountry HST would be in service. I wasn't impressed by this, after all it was only last Wednesday that Laura could have caught an HST from Leicester to Kettering, she chose to wait for the next train instead, she preferred the more modern Meridian to the old HST. I felt the need to tame the back garden was more pressing than the 'need' to travel there (wherever there may be) and back again on an HST.
Friday was equally disastrous Robbie was late home again and in a foul mood. He claimed he would be the laughingstock of the railway world if he didn't go on the HST the following day. Personally I didn't thing that would make much difference, but I had no intention of spending a wet Saturday with Robbie doing his Rumpelstilksin impression. I told him that I wasn't stopping him, but he needn't think I was going to get up in the middle of the night to drive him to the station. He stomped around the lounge claiming he couldn't go because he hadn't got any rolls or any meat for sandwiches. It was so ridiculous that Laura and Sam have been doing Robbie impressions all weekend! I had already been to Tesco's and Morrisons that day, but I had to go out again, to the small local Tesco's buy supplies for Robbie's day out! He spent the rest of the evening planning his route, believe it or not he was going all the way to York just to travel all the way from York to Plymouth on the HST. He was planning to leave at 4am to get to the town centre to catch a bus to Kettering station.
Saturday morning dawned and Robbie overslept, so once again I found myself driving to Kettering at the crack of dawn! I came home and went back to bed again, after all he wouldn't be home again until almost midnight so I would have a late night as well as an early morning! It was a lovely peaceful day and I got loads done, we are going on holiday next weekend so I have a lot of planning and packing to do.
Dave the cat has an infected eye so I have to take him back to the vet on Monday, he swore at me when I bathed it for him and when I put him down again he gave Oreo a clip around the ear on his way past him. I expect he will teach the vet a few new words too!
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