My Day Off
Thursday, May 15th, 2003 18:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeI've got today and tomorrow off work. In the morning I headed off to Boots to get my prescription filled, and foolishly walked up Lister Gate, so I was pounced on by the Market Researchers who always lurk there on weekdays. I must have pulled a face when she told me it was a survey about football, as she said "Good, I need some more people who don't like football". There were questions about whether I think football is not for women, why I don't like football, in what circumstances I might watch football, what sports I like doing and watching and what international team I might support, if any. Then she asked what country I was born in and finally the most interesting question, about whether I think of my self as English rather than British (the survey also had the same question for Scottish, etc.) to which I gave the 'I strongly agree' answer. I always think that British is more a political thing and that English is what I am. I'd say that I'm probably in the majority there, as when you're being taught a foreign language, one of the first things you're taught to say is 'I'm English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish", never "I'm British". Je suis anglaise, soy inglesa & jar är engelska. At the end of the survey, she gave me a rather groovy purple Football Assocation pen, which is better than the Bic biro or chocolate bar that you normally get.
After a bit of window shopping (I deserve a pat on the back for not actually spending any money), I headed off to Broadway to renew my Screencard. The woman serving me asked if I was already on their database and the other woman in the box office laughed and said "for years and years". We tried and failed to remember how long I've been going there, but it must be well over 10 years. I had lunch in the Broadway bar and then went to a showing of "The Man in the White Suit", an Ealing comedy from 1951.
When I got home, I chose a book from my 'to be read' pile to nominate for June and posted it to the Motley Fool Book Club board: Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone.
This evening I'm going start decluttering my wardrobe, both to get rid of clothes that are old & scruffy, falling to bits or just don't fit, and from a Trinny & Susannah point of view. Then I can take bags of unwanted clothes to be recycled and to the Oxfam shop at the weeked.
After a bit of window shopping (I deserve a pat on the back for not actually spending any money), I headed off to Broadway to renew my Screencard. The woman serving me asked if I was already on their database and the other woman in the box office laughed and said "for years and years". We tried and failed to remember how long I've been going there, but it must be well over 10 years. I had lunch in the Broadway bar and then went to a showing of "The Man in the White Suit", an Ealing comedy from 1951.
When I got home, I chose a book from my 'to be read' pile to nominate for June and posted it to the Motley Fool Book Club board: Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone.
This evening I'm going start decluttering my wardrobe, both to get rid of clothes that are old & scruffy, falling to bits or just don't fit, and from a Trinny & Susannah point of view. Then I can take bags of unwanted clothes to be recycled and to the Oxfam shop at the weeked.
