Busy day today, housework, some of which has actually been done. I then set about posting some of my late brothers pictures on a new blog. I tried WordPress but found it so slow at posting pictures that I scrapped it and turned back to Blogger, where I ought to have started to begin with. The pictures come from his time in the RAF in the Middle East way back when. What was then a dusty airbase is now adjacent to Dubai! The runway now forms part of a road way, nothing else remaining. It has to be said life at the time was very different there to what it is now. Whether the people at the bottom have benefited remains to be seen.
Having done enough of that to begin with I have prepared a simple tea, ignored the rest of the jobs awaiting, and scribbled this while trying not to do anything more, though I have ensured the rubbish has gone out, most important and the place smells sweeter now.
I went nowhere, unlike like yesterday when filled with sausage roll I ventured out on a 38 bus, the correct one, to the Braintree Village. The entire place is being modernised to fit the plastic 'village' concept. It looks tacky. The usual shops for the most part remain, the overpriced Levi's, (£115 a pair!), the usual girls shops, M&S & Mountain Warehouse. M&S a disappointment as the men's section has shrunk, allowing more room for females clearance stuff. Nothing of any kind there appealed. The Mountain Warehouse, shiny new bright appearance, but same nothingness for me. The only shop where I found myself wishing I had money was 'Barbour!' Several of their items appeal to me, but a waistcoat costing £60, a reduction, puts me off somewhat. Another failing trip in the sun, but at least I know the 'Village' has not changed, it is still, for me, a waste of time. Maybe next week I will visit Camulodunum?
