Who invented green fruit pastels? And how many should there be in an average packet? For me there are never enough red and black pastels….who even likes green ones anyway? Rowntree (we know you’re really Nestle), please take them out, stop making them and replace them all with black and red pastels. It would just make the world a happier place.

This is the ‘stuff of life’ running through my mind half way up the M5 on a 250 mile journey back from Devon. I was on a delivery mission – handing over unwanted TV and surplus curtains to poor students receiving our moving cast-offs. Motorway junctions were marked in pastels consumed and Radio 1 and the chart countdown made an entertaining passenger.

Monotonous motorway driving is something I won’t miss when we leave this summer, especially the drivers who think they are in Italy and continually undertake on the left and weave in and out and across lanes irresponsibly. Plonkers! There is a motorway in Cyprus, where they drive on the ‘right’ side of the road – which is left of course – but it only goes from one end of the island to the other and I’m not planning to go on it a lot. I’ll be far too ‘busy & important’ with jobs like swimming pool cleaning and cycling to the market for food. Probably.

Walking to work I’ve been making different kinds of lists about leaving. They are, ‘what I’ll miss’ and ‘what I won’t miss’…here’s a few for starters, ‘cause it might get boring.
I’ll miss: the wood pigeons cooing when I wake up, morning dew on the lawn, the smell of freshly mown grass and the Sunday papers.
I won’t miss: traffic jams, damp grey days (or perhaps I will when it hits 45 degrees!) and fake tan.

I’m motorway-bound again this weekend, but northwards to Jordie-land for another drop-off of furniture, food and… flipping heck there must be another ‘f’ in there somewhere! That means more boxes will be disappearing from around the house, which seems to get more echoey by the day. And the more stuff that goes out of the house, the more need there is for cleaning…if you like cleaning that’s a positive, if not, it’s best to look busy and find an important blog to write, so you can put it off for another day.

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