Tuesday 21st February, 2017                          2030

I don’t know whether I am getting better or worse with the sleep pattern. On one hand it was six before I called it a day this morning and on the other I actually got up at one. Again though, I vacillated for far too long over whether to go food shopping and where to eat, resulting in a complete disarray.

Two hours ago I finally moved myself and went out. I had resolved to go to the closest Dico’s for one of their curries. Sometime after I got back last night it clearly snowed after the sandstorm - weird. As a consequence there were three types of car this evening - ones which had been under cover or had been cleaned today, ones covered in snow and others covered in muddy sand. It was a mystery as to how cars could be parked on the same road all night could be a mixture of all three. The cleaned ones I understand but how they could be parked adjacent to each other and one be muddy and the other with three inches of snow is beyond me. I know they hadn’t been driven because I walked past them twice last night.

Anyway, Dico’s is one stop on the BRT but I decided to do something out of character. I walked. I even spotted a pet supplies shop en route, not that I need one. Finally I arrived for my curry, only for them to indicate they didn’t have any!  Christ, I could have taken the bus the other way and gone to the one near BHG and still done my shopping had I known. Annoyed, I retraced my steps. Peeking through the windows of eating places to see what they served (if I could). Nothing appealed so I thought I was consigned to having beef noodles locally, until I spotted that Aili was still open tonight.

So “dinner” was a croissant followed by a puff pastry with half a peach and red jam in the middle. Very healthy indeed! Maybe I should have had chicken and chips. I need to get back into the habit of cooking my own again, since Alice left I’ve probably eaten elsewhere five days a week.