Today in 13 hours, 20 bullet points.
1. Book taxi for 5:15am, for 6am train for weekend away.
2. Go to Xmas meal, have a lovely time a couple of drinks and get the last tram home.
3. Pack bag, set alarm for 4:15. Go to bed at 1am
4. Wake. Hear phone ringing.
5. Feel confused.
6. Phone stops ringing, look at time: 5:15.
7.
8. Slow realisation.
7. Brain starts working.
8. Uh. Oh.
9. Panic.
10. Throw off sheets. Throw on clothes. Grab toothbrush. Throw few more things in bag. Try and get brain in gear. Do I have everything?
11. Answer phone again. Apologise profusely to waiting taxi driver.
12. Run out house.
13. Sit in taxi, hoping I have everything.
14. Sleep until Birmingham.
15. Have coffee so I don’t sleep through to Bristol.
16. Get to Cheltenham. Time: 8:30.
17. More coffee in Cheltenham. Full English (with more coffee).
18. Feel a bit more normal.
19. Go and have lovely day in Chepstow with family.
20. 16:00 – feel shattered, fall asleep on the sofa.
December 17, 2011