Sunday 8th Aug 2021

 A bit wet today, I was sprinting a bit late to meet Catherine and had to do my finger.  The stupid thing started bleeding as I was about to put the ointment on so I had to rewash it and put a plaster on, I'm getting fed up with this now as I keep catching it with my other nails or banging it against things which hurts!

I met Catherine in the small car park by the Baptist church on Brown Street.  Catherine is such a good friend, she has to have the patience of a saint to put up with my antics.  We went towards London because Paines Hill gardens is in a village called Cobham which is just outside the capital, I think it's on the way to Hampton Court and Thorp park.  saw a sign for Windsor castle, I hear it's very expensive there.  I was going to go when Alan came down, glad we didn't to be honest because he seems to get argumentative when we visit anywhere.  I rather he didn't come to my house, to be honest, sent me a text yesterday asking If I had told Carl her ex-boyfriend that she has cancer!  Rang aunt Joan up to ask, she should block him.

I was a bit annoyed because it's none of his business.  Liz is a married woman and should forget about Carl, Carl is also married to another woman with a child, David who is Lize's husband will not be very happy if he finds out, but it won't be from me.  I'm staying out of their stupid arguments, why should I be dragged into their problem's.  Wish they would leave me out of it, I get fed up with the whole damned lot of them sometimes, if It wasn't for my son I would cut tie's with them and never see them again.  They are very insensitive sometimes and don't give a damn about anyone.  It's not aunt Joan but her stupid offspring that seem to cause all the trouble!

Anyway back to today.  I was a bit dubious because the weather wasn't great and Catherine was using her phone's sat-nav.  We met up with another lovely couple under a marquee and set off for a walk around the park.  The grounds are part of a house which isn't open to the public, had on a pair of walking boots which pinched my shins, after being used to sabdel's, my feet felt clumpy; also the stupid lace on my left boot kept coming undone.

I took some pictures with my phone which I'll edit later.  A lot of caravan's and motorhomes on the roads, there's a weird thing called a sleep pod which is like a little trailer on the back of vehicles.  Listened to some jazz in the amphitheatre, more like an open grass space.  Two vans, one selling Prececco and other cups of tea, the prosecco was dry so I didn't fancy any of it. 

Well, it got me out of Salisbury for a while which is good.  dad's catheter stuck again last night so they had to make another trip to the hospital.  Mum said they got a taxi down because all the ambulence's were too busy, mum said they passed my house on the way; she said it was strange seeing all the empty streets.  It's normal for me because if I wake up during the early hours of the night, it's dead quiet which can feel a bit daunting.  

It wasn't one night, because someone's stupid car alarm parked outside the White Hart Hotel went off and kept flashing orange lights.  It was like sleeping in a disco, so I complained because the orange light was flashing into people's rooms.  They eventually turned it off, but not before people had been woken up!

Singing off now because I did get a headache the other time I wrote, and don't want another one.