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It turns out that my car is amphibious, which is a good job else I wouldn’t have got to the gig last night. English girls may have heard on the national news about the hoo-ha over the massive mountain rescue operation in the Lake District, when organisers of a fell marathon decided it would a good idea to go ahead with the event despite the worst conditions in living memory. Such is the weather in Cumbria at the moment. Wet. Not that this is anything new of course.
I’m quite proud of my little girly car actually. I’ve had it for 8 years and it’s never been out in such weather, along seriously flooded country roads. It was a little scary really, but I guess the worst that could have happened would have been breaking down in the middle of a lake on the road and getting my feet wet. I was so relieved to eventually arrive at the gig, having floated most of the way there.
It’s with some relief therefore that next week I will be getting away from this extreme, yet not untypical October weather, and jetting off to JAMAICA! Upon our return from Italy, back to a not untypical British summer, Gillian and I decided that we just had to get away again, somewhere warm. We’re not guaranteed sun in Jamaica at this time of year but it will definitely be warm. We’ve booked an all-inclusive package, food, drinks, pool, private beach, so we don’t have to do anything, except get waited on hand and foot and swim in the sea. How lovely. It’s a bit of a blow-out, and when I get back I shall really have to think about being a bit more frugal for a while. But that can wait until I get back…
On Tuesday we’re getting our nails done. My first professional manicure ever. As I don’t have to play the keyboards for a couple of weeks I’m going to get extensions, gels or acrylics, not sure yet, any advice on which might be best would be greatly appreciated (see relevant forum post!)
It’ll be nice to have nails again. I did manage to grow them quite long after leaving my last day job, but joining a band again put paid to that. Apart from the fact that long nails get caught in between the notes on my keyboard, plugs, knobs, faders, flight cases, handles and catches and so on really aren’t the best of friends with long nails.
So it’ll be a nice girly day with Gillian, getting our nails done, a look round the shops, and in the evening we’re going out to the Thai restaurant. We can discuss final details of our holiday and admire our nails.
I got my foreign money. I have seventeen thousand Jamaican dollars. Wow, I must be rich! Nope, it’s only 150 quid. Which I guess means a Jamaican dollar is worth about three farthings. Blimey. Shouldn’t need much money though, we’ve already paid for all we can eat and drink. It would be nice to see some sun, but I realise it may just be warm and cloudy. Hopefully the hurricane season has passed. Hopefully it will not rain 24/7 and we won’t have to drive through any lakes.
I wonder if what they say about black men is true…
xx
