Refuse

Seemingly I alone, out of the entire population of the country, have not put in for leave on Monday which would have resulted in a five-day-long weekend. Fool! I had been trying to conserve my leave for later in the year, little knowing that I would soon be changing jobs thus rendering this policy utterly futile.

C'est la vie. Three days off in a row is not to be sneezed at. Did the grocery shopping today and optimistically bought ingredients for a stew, which I foresee wilting forlornly in the fridge three weeks hence. Got home having somehow not obtained the one truly necessary item on the list - bin bags. The bushes outside the back door will have to serve as a midden for the time being. I'll fit right in with the neighbours, who are currently pushing around their screaming toddler in one of those shopping trolleys for kids shaped like a car, presumably nicked from a nearby supermarket.