"Under no circumstances are you to decide that I desperately need to go to the loo when I'm walking and about two miles from home."
I know this may be a bit of a delicate subject but it always seems to happen. Walking makes me want to go to the loo. Going to the library makes me want to go to the loo. I'm sure it's all psychological but the walking one can be a bit distressing when the stomach cramps come on and you still have the best part of 30 minutes to walk before reaching home and a toilet. You just have to grit your teeth and put up with the pain as there's no aletrnative.
But enough of this ----. This morning our little writers group will be reading some of our original work at the Forget-Me-Not cafe and mine will be from a selection of my daily blogs. So looking forward to that. Hope those attending survive it.
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I remember horrendous meetings in the village that used to go on until past 11 pm and usually ended in uproar. These included school governors' meetings and parish council meetings. I also remember periods when I had so many meetings that I was virtually out every night of the week. Trying to juggle those with working full time took a definite strange kind of energy and an energy I probably no longer have.
Nowadays, thankfully, I seem to have very few night meetings. Most of the meetings I do have seem to be during the day when energy levels are much higher.
Last night's parish council meeting went on for almost three hours, however, but it was far from a return to the bad old days. It was very long because there was so much to discuss and it reminded me how much village life is changing.
One of the topics discussed was introducing electric car charging points to the village. With the price that petrol is, I say bring it on when it comes to electric cars. But like everything else, the infrastructure has to be in place. A lack of charging points is the only thing preventing me from having an electric car (apart from the price of course).
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The Methodist Church in Hethersett is 100 years old next month and it is hoping to contact as many people connected with it from the past as possible. That means lots of people from our past. I do hope to renew some old acquaintances in the near future. It's also 10 years in July that the Olympic flame came to the village. I have mentioned this before but all these landmarks are what gives a village its character and its history.
You will gather from the rambling nature of this blog that it's been rather chucked together. As Monty Python would say it's My Contractual Obligation blog. One in which I don't have a great deal to say but have still managed to ramble on and bore everyone rigid. Normal service to be resumed tomorrow.