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[turps]

Happy birthday, wovenindelibly I hope it's fantastic for you ♥

I had a very lovely day yesterday. Got Corey off to school, got James up and dressed and as it was his day off we hit the shops. Subway first for an early dinner then we wandered a while before picking out our new carpet for the living room before going to Asda for groceries. It had been raining all day but I wanted to get out of the house and walk for a while, and like I told James, it's not like I'd melt in the rain, so I got him to go to Herrington Park once we'd finished shopping. He didn't have his coat so he dropped me off at the edge of the park and drove to the duck lake while I walked it. It was so lovely, the rain was belting down and it was cold but being outside felt good. There were only a few people around with it being so wet but there plenty of ducks and swans to see and everywhere you looked was green and wet. When I got to the duck lake the people in the car park must have thought I was insane, but I enjoyed every minute. I could have kept walking except I was wearing my crocs and they're not good wet weather shoes at all.

Got home and had a shower and then did all the ironing that had piled up while James and Corey made tea -- a very yummy chicken chow mein. Then, as usual lately, Kayleigh turned up, ate leftovers and didn't leave until we said we were going to bed. But man, I paid for that activity later. I woke during the night and my leg was aching like crazy. I don't know if it was just my joints protesting or the beginnings of yet another stupid infection so I doubled the antibiotics just in case and had a rest day today.

This is one of those 360 degree pictures of Herrington Park. It's a gorgeous place with loads of walking trails, and ponds everywhere. It also has an ice cream van that sells the best whippy ice creams ever, especially when you make them into a 99. Hmmmm. Which reminds me. While I was in Asda I saw they're brought out their own brand of luxury ice cream, ones with bits in, like chocolate and fudge and nuts, so many different kinds, big tubs of the stuff all lined up in the freezer and you know what? It was only £1. Why couldn't they have done that when I was actually eating ice cream?! It's to cry.

Oh man, I've just read that it's only a month for the BBB wave two drafts. I know exactly what happens in the fic and have a nice chunk done but the help_hiati story is well on its way to being plus 20k and gah! I need to get back into the groove of writing in big chunks daily, and fast.

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[nthngtoseehere.livejournal.com]

That sounds like such a lovely day! And wow, beautiful park!

What is a 99?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was a really good day. I could have done without the hours of ironing but even that was done watching TV.

Herrington Park is beautiful. It's been created on top of a reclaimed pit and they've done a fantastic job.

A 99 is an ice cream with a chocolate flake pushed into it. Why the name I don't know, but man, they taste good.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely day, indeed, even if you had to pay for the exercice, ouch.

LOl I know it's really you writing the entry when there is talk about not one but two challenge fics :-p

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was just beautiful, the ache not so much though.

I know! I thought I had forever and yet here I am juggling two challenge fics. It's insane!

[wovenindelibly.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ♥

mmm, a park, makes me want to go!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

If you were here I'd take you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unashamed/]

The park looks lovely! Sounds like you had a really nice day.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It's such a pretty park. No flowers or stuff like that, just lots of nature :)

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

That does sound lovely. I don't walk enough just for the sake of it.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It really was nice. You know what's weird though? I enjoy walking like that but really don't like walking to the local supermarket, which is literally over the street from where I live.

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

I know, me too. It's like the kind of walking you *have* to do. Ew. :P

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a lovely day :)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Thank you :D

[turlough]

That looks like a lovely place to walk, even in the rain! Though crocks are definitely not the kind of shoes I would want to wear on a wet walk or any other time either ;-P We had gloriously sunny weather yesterday and I went for a long walk with my sister and her dog. There's still ice on the lake but it's beginning to break up and we saw lots of mallards and Canada geese and even a couple of goldeneyes which I'd never seen before.

I hope you'd just overtaxed your joints a little and that it isn't another infection! *keeps fingers crossed*

You totally need to either get back into writing big chunks daily or get back into writing short stories ;-) Good luck in any case!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Crocs are insanely comfortable, though admittedly not the most stylish of shoes *g*

There's loads of Canada geese at the park but no goldeneyes. Those are so pretty. It must be really nice to see the ice on the lake too.

I hope it is joint pain, at least that'll go away with rest.

This Mikey/Pete was supposed to be a shorter story. Once BBB is over I really need to be strict with myself about keeping things short.

[dine.livejournal.com]

mmm, sometimes walking in the rain is glorious! (if you don't have to be somewhere afterwards, when you're dripping like a tap) your experience park sounds lovely

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yeah, being able to dry off after is very important. Walking in the rain is lovely, being damp isn't at all.

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a lovely day, Terri! :)

I don't know what to think about the walking around in rain thing though. At least you were wearing shoes? :P

*hearts you and your crazy, walking around in the rain self*


PS: That park is gorgeous! :D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I was wearing shoes! *g*

It's a beautiful park, even in the rain :D

[sperrywink]

That does sound like a lovely day. I'm glad you had a nice walk.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was an excellent walk. Though I do seem to have a disturbing trend of walking in the rain lately *g*

[tara]

The park looks lovely and it sounds like an equally lovely day, minus the leg payback :(

Also, sounds like I need to make a visit to the Asda ice cream department next time I'm there :D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It really was a lovely day.

Oh man, the ice cream looked so good! I wanted to eat it all!

[chalcopyrite.livejournal.com]

What a lovely-sounding day! I hope your leg feels better. :(

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It was a fantastic day, and thankfully my leg is much better.

[kin-you-bi.livejournal.com]

That is such a gorgeous park! I'd be way too tempted to leave the paths and go running about like a loon. Sounds like you had a great day, though.

And I am so envious of people who can write! I can barely manage to string two sentences together. ::cheers you on::

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It really is a lovely park, and has a load of space for running like a loon. That's what I like about it most really, that it's so big it never really gets crowded.

You write very well, so none of that!

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

What an awesome park, and what a nice day. It sounds lovely.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful park. It always amazes me that it's been created and hasn't been there forever.

[frausorge]

Walking in the rain is awesome as long as you have the means to dry off after! I hope your preemptive strike with the antibiotics does the trick though and your leg feels better soon.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yeah, getting home to get dry after is important after rain walking. My leg is much better. Thank you :)

[rikes]

That's such a lovely park! Very British to my eye. :D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It is a very lovely park, and yeah, probably looks British too *g*