Time for a wander to look for useful things.
Do you get the feeling someone is staring at you?
Just keep walking and ignore them.
Did you see someone out of the corner of your eye?
Perhaps you should go and look for something to eat.
Don’t forget to pay for everything you bought.
What did you buy today?
Who do you like to chat to when you go shopping?
Spent too long chatting? Better check the time.
Time for me to go on a traication with only my phone. Find out where next week.
Can you translate the Latin or tell the time?
I nearly caught up with my blog then it disappeared down a tunnel.
If we follow it upstairs we might end up at an event, but you will have to wait till next time to find out…
Have you any idea where you are?
Where does this door lead? Find out further on.
What is your latest time waster?
One could say it’s a good warming up exercise for writers. Words with Friends, will they still be your friends after frenzied competition? If you have friends or relatives on other continents there will always be someone who is awake to play, even if you are up very late or early. Unlike Word Blitz and Quiz Planet there are no time constraints, so I do not have the excuse of my hands not working quickly enough for losing all the time.
In the meantime I don’t seem to be getting very far with Duolingo and the owl is always sending me sad or cross email reminders.
Meanwhile back in the real world, did Aliens leave this strange monolith? Find out where it is at the weekend.
Do you like peeping in windows? Who lives here?
Not sure… perhaps you prefer eavesdropping.
Cafes provide ideal opportunities to listen in to other tables, perhaps even snap what they are eating…
‘It was so windy his hearing aids blew off.’
‘She’s a tidy sort of person, so usually when she says the house is a complete mess she means she hasn’t emptied the dishwasher, but when we went to stay, the house was a complete mess.‘
When you hear a whole coffee and cake’s worth ( slowly eaten ) of a holiday from hell you are tempted to join in. ‘Oh that’s just like when we went away with… ‘
But you don’t need to pretend you are looking at your phone or absorbed in your cake. The queue at the shop till is just as fascinating. This is why we must keep human beings at the till. The young chap on the till is busy taping two large rectangular multi photo frames together for a customer. She had explained in great detail what happened last time she bought two such frames and why she needed them taped together to make carrying easier. She then went on to explain why she had bought and was buying again these frames and detailed how many grandchildren she had, referring to how many children she had had and probably about to describe how she had met her husband, but by that time he had finished wrapping. A self service checkout would not have helped her, nor listened with interest to her saga…
How has your week been? Eavesdropped on anyone interesting?
Do you play any addictive games?
I’m busy with visitors, just time for a quick trip to the shops for a few essentials.
Shopping makes you tired so it’s handy to have somewhere comfortable to sit.
And if you take your visitors shopping make sure you choose somewhere easy to find to meet up if they get lost…
...or you never know where you might end up...
...or what you might end up buying.
Your visitors will need a cup of tea after all that shopping.
What is your ideal shopping experience?
Things you only do with visitors
Drive into town.
Chat to strangers
Chat to Fishes
Run around on the beach
Eat SWEET Stuff
Go to Brickfest
Take a Ride
WHAT DO YOUR VISITORS LIKE TO DO OR WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO WITH YOUR VISITORS?
Visitors departed, back to normal transmission soon.
Didn’t get what I wanted here.
Not much luck here either. What do you mean their system’s been hacked?
That’s handy, I needed a water butt, I’ll just see if I have enough change.
I thought it said £2.99 – it’s made of plastic!
At least you get a free safari with it.
Time for a coffee break, but spoiled for choice.
Let’s stick with orange…
So that’s what happened to Woolworths.
Don’t know why I got turned away from all the other places…
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Meanwhile in the wider world I missed this tiny bit of news on Friday morning and wondered why a friend messaged saying ‘hope Microsoft gets fixed so you can order your carpet.’ I wondered whatsap on earth she was talking about. Thank goodness brunch with friends was not affected and fortunately they had heard what was happening, or rather, not happening around the world.
Meanwhile at the carpet shop one doesn’t need a computer to pick a carpet and they write in a book.
And luckily you could still get hydrated for free with an amazing new invention… a water fountain.
All the rain has been good for nomowing.
When ‘news items’ pop up on your computer do you get distracted from writing your blog? Am I the only person who hasn’t heard about these folk before?
’10-foot-tall people’ discovered by archaeologists in Nevada cave – Extraordinary human remains have been found in the US state of Nevada, with some of the skeletons measuring up to 10 feet tall. Alongside their jaw-dropping size, the bodies – some of which were said to have been mummified – were found to have had red hair.
Back to the present and what lies round the corner?
After a ride on that perhaps you had better go somewhere more relaxing.
Have you been affected by the big switch off or ten foot giants?
Catch up with what is happening where you are or aren’t…
Which of these will steal your lunch?
Is this the smallest waiting room in the country?
New report on the dark side of toy rabbit life.
DIY ideas
Increasing numbers of home owners are putting their houses in light bulbs.
Enjoy a sunny trip to the seaside
But make sure you obey all the rules
A support group has been started for readers who never manage to complete the weekend puzzles in their favourite newspaper. The founder of the group said ‘People don’t realise what a devastating effect this is having on lives.‘
Where do you like to shop? Why not visit the popular Vintage Quarter?
Or follow Doctor Who to his favourite shopping location.
How has your week been? Have you been anywhere interesting?
When you open the instructions and put them straight back in the box...
When you bump into someone you didn’t want to meet at the supermarket.
When you like to break the law.
When you buy your new house at Ikea
When your fiction comes true…
When vegans paint still life.
When your cake mix order from Amazon goes wrong.
When your hobbies know no limits.
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 