Leeds

Back from a trip to Leeds - my one and only visit this term - to see Patrick. Shopping is always good in Leeds - but this time I just felt unable to buy anything. Even though I tried on a really nice skirt, and it looked good, I kept thinking to myself 'but WHERE will you wear it? You are not going anywhere or doing anything this xmas, so why bother?' - so I put it back, and made some excuse to Patrick [not sure whether he believed it, but he is too polite to say anything].. More successful getting some things for him - but he would look good in a plastic bin liner!! Saw some nice shoes, but they didn't have my size, some nice tweed cropped trousers, but I needed to wear them with boots - which didn't fit, so all in all not a good shopping session. Got back to the carpark, and the machine wouldn't take my card either...
Today, we walked over to pick up Patrick's friend, and then did a Sainsburys shop. Amazing how students nowadays can afford to shop in Sainsburys: When I was a student, I could just about afford Kwik Save, or the market at the end of the day, when they sold off the fruit and veg! An hours walk through a wonderful hidden park before my drive home was great - muddy in parts, but clean fresh air, peace, little streams burbling through the undergrowth - idyllic. Worst bit, as usual, was having to come home. I hate that 2 hr drive down the M1 on my own...