Categories: life
Date: 21 August 2009 19:26:41
My virtue knows little bounds today. I'll come down to earth with a bang tomorrow!!
In the process of delivering a job application form, with the devious motive of checking out the place that I might end up working in, and possibly living in, (as I can't see how I can do the job without living in the area, given the poor nature of rural public transport - which is one of my main reasons for not wanting this job, I don't want to live and work in a village!) I unintentionally explored a lot more of the area, as I got off the bus too early.
I was also presented with an opportunity to explore the local pub, which is an experience I won't repeat willingly. I'm not a regular pub goer, but I'm quite content to go into a pub and have a drink/meal on my own occasionally. This one made East Glaswegian pubs look up-market and sophisticated. (For those readers outside the UK, most East Glaswegian pubs are not places I would willingly go to alone!! Or even willingly go to!!) Fortunately, I spied an easy bottled soft drink to take away with me, and pleaded that I was needing to get the bus, (only one an hour) but I didn't want to avail myself of the facilities (an urgent need) without some kind of payment.
I have now seen more of the county of my birth and upbringing in the last four weeks than I had in the eighteen years I lived here. Interesting....