i felt pretty ill last night so had an early night and i was still feeling a bit ill this morning. on a normal day i might have phoned in sick, but this was no ordinary day ! So, i took a few stomach tablets and headed out the door.
First exciting thing was being driven in to town by a friend (jane runs with his wife) so he could take me for breakfast in town. he sells life insurance (!) and was due to give me a quote so we made a morning of it.
he’d phoned me earlier in the week a bit concerned that my blood pressure readings were very high – i was 180/78 so my premiums were going to be massive (if i lived long enough to sign the forms). it didn’t seem right, so i was going to get retested this morning. but in the end i didn’t have to as apparently when they looked carefully at the writing they realised it was 130/78 which was almost exactly what it was a year ago when we had our emigration medicals. phew. They also let me off the blowy down the pipe test as i made a mess of that due to technique !
we both had a greasy fry up for breakfast whilst talking about health and life insurance !
then after work i headed down to a place called Shed 10 which took a while to find. in the end i found Shed 1 and followed the shed entrances until i reach 10. there’s an exhibition on at the moment about product design which is great. you can read about it here. the lady above is Katrin Sonnleitner and is one of the artists. she gave us a tour of the exhibition. it was all free (including drinks and nibbles when we arrived) and it was great.
that finished at 7ish which was just the right time to walk across to the centre of town where our neighbour warren was at a computer society meeting, so i could get a lift back home again !
what an excellent day
jane had a day off, having fun with her chums. coffee, laughing, more coffee, that kind of things. and the girls had a good day too. hoorah
tomorrow i’m having the day off for the day 1 of my two day birthday present. excellent.