The biggest blog in history

Today bloggers have been asked to record their day for posterity as one day in history by History Matters, so I have. Here's my account of my day

Tuesday 17 October 2006

What did I do today? Not very much really. I got up around 9 – I’ve got very lazy on days when I’m not working – had breakfast – two slices of toast, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to eat anything else till the evening as I had a hospital appointment in the afternoon. I’ve been dreading it, but actually couldn’t dread the actual day for too long, as I only opened the appointment letter yesterday. Yes, I know, I could have missed it, but I didn’t, and at least I only had last night, and today, to stress about it.

I did some ironing – oh, how I hate it, but the pile was so large it was threatening to fall off the chair. I then went out, first to Tescos for food – mainly cat food really, but I got some other bits as well, well, £15 worth anyway. Then on to Monks Cross, I went into Marks and Spencer, and then into Laura Ashley, which had a sale on. Oh dear. Well, my excuse was I needed to take my mind off the hospital, and I’m looking for something to wear to my friend’s birthday ‘do’ in December. I tried on quite a few things, and ended up with a black skirt, and a fitted silk top, both of which are ‘going out’ clothes – suitable for the theatre, or a meal out, at least. In my heart, I knew I didn’t need either of them, and it was mainly ‘comfort buying’.

On the way home I stopped at the Toyota Garage, and looked at some cars. I’ve arranged a test drive in a Yaris for Friday. I’m pretty sure I won’t get one though, as I found the salesman far too smarmy, and disliked his style of calling my by my name 6 times in the space of about 2 minutes.

Once back, I logged onto the computer for a while, and checked all the sites I regularly visit. Blogs of friends, a couple of fan sites and forums, The Stage, and checked my emails, dealing with a couple of work related ones. I was filling in time till I had to go out again,

My appointment wasn’t until 5.20pm, but I got there early, and was appalled at the price of car parking at the hospital - £2.60 for two hours (well, I was sure I’d be delayed). I was actually in, and out, by my original appointment time, so for once well done to the NHS. As I walked out I thought about the times I’d been to that hospital, as a visitor, and as a member of staff, as I used to work in the adjacent hospital. Some happy, and some very sad memories. I also remembered having a guided tour round it before it opened. It’s changed a lot, and had bits built onto it over the years.

As for my evening, well, it was just watching tv, and a bit of reading. There really wasn’t very much on, and I found myself watching an episode of Dr Who for about the 4th time, well, if there’s nothing else on, you can’t beat a bit of David Tennant. Later I watched an episode of ‘The Amazing Mrs Pritchard’ starring Jane Horrocks. It’s a drama series which is now about 3 episodes in, but this was the first I’d seen. It was quite good, a little quirky around the edges, and pretty unchallenging, but it was good to see some strong roles for actresses of a certain age.

So, that was it, my day –pretty ordinary and unexciting really.