Nottingham

With not a lot on the cards today I decide to attempt to get to Nottingham and the shop that I wanted to go to a fortnight ago before the SatNav screwed up on the car. So after some breakfast we're off and on our way about 100 miles north of here.

Considering the last time I went to Nottingham was nearly 18 years ago when I lived in Lincolnshire, the time lapse since my last visit didn't prepare me for the shambles that has become what once was a city famed for Robin Hood et al. Honest to god, the place is as rough as a badgers arse, and I aint exaggerating! The route we took to get us to the the city centre was an accurate portrayal of what lies through out the city with XXX rated sex shops, casinos and general seediness everywhere not to mention the plentiful supply of houses and premises that have been boarded up and abandoned and subsequently vandalised!

I was pretty glad to get to the shop, buy what I needed (which was a load of stuff to make jewelry) and head on out back home again, I for one would not want to live there ever, which is shame because I have much better memories of the place from the last time I visited.

We only just make it home for 2 reasons... a) we get back at about 4.10 pm which is in the nick of time for phil to put a winning bid on another lump of rock we'd seen and b) we run very very low on diesel. In fact we have a range of 1 mile when we get to the doorstop, and a range of 0 miles when I make it to the garage and put in £50's of diesel to fill the tank. So needless to say then we were running on fumes for probably the last 10 miles of the journey.

What is left of the day is then devoted to sitting on the couch and doing very little indeed except having a go at making some bracelets and eating... all in all not too stressful, though we do have to make sure we're up early enough as to not oversleep when Phils brother pops by tomorrow for a flying visit...

... and I finally get to bed when I finish doing a bit of impromptu work on the old puter.

Posted by Abi on the October 15, 2005 9:28 PM