Filling Time
Posted: Fri 31 March, 2017 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Do More, Domestic, Driving, Food, Getting Organised, Gigs, London, Sociable, Stupidity, Travel |Leave a comment »(no, that’s not a euphemism)
So – this is a perfect example of how my life suddenly ends up getting busy…
As long-term readers know, I’m a regular at the Meatopia cooking festival at Tobacco Dock in London, which is usually on the first weekend of September. I’ve got tickets for both days (again, as usual) which would usually be enough to keep me out of trouble for that weekend.
Except now there’s a gig I want to see on the Saturday night, also in London. Which is also utterly doable – but makes for a rather busier and more complicated weekend, it’s safe to say.
So my plan was
- Saturday
- Drive down to Barbican, park up
- Walk to Tobacco Dock
- Eat Lots
- Walk back to Barbican, check in to hotel
- Travel to Camden for concert
- Gig
- Travel back to Barbican
- Sleep
- Sunday
- Walk to Tobacco Dock
- Eat More
- Walk back to Barbican
- Drive home
- Die quietly.
Except it turns out my cat-carer can’t do that weekend. So….
It now consists of
- Saturday
- Drive down to North London
- Travel to Barbican(ish), then walk to Tobacco Dock
- Eat Lots
- Walk/Travel back to Camden
- Gig
- Travel back up to where the car’s parked
- Drive home
- Sunday
- Drive down to Barbican, then walk to Tobacco Dock (or maybe get the train, depending on other stuff going on)
- Eat More
- Back to Barbican / Euston
- Home, and Die Quietly.
And that is how my weekends suddenly get silly. (We’ll also mention that September already has every weekend booked with stuff to do)