Very un-gemmak

Yesterday the drive to Edinburgh to deal with the cell phone debacle was the task at hand, I picked PG up from work mid afternoon and off we set again on the hour and a half journey. There were on this occasion no beautiful vistas, no myriad of autumn colours or overly wooly sheep meandering in fields. Instead we drove through cloud, thick, wet, all enveloping cloud, visibility was set at about the front of the car, the roads were caked in many places in thick, slippery mud, deposited by agricultural machinery hurriedly completing the Autumns sowing and any sheep that there were stood huddled miserably against walls for protection from the biting, strong wind and rain, their fleeces looking somewhat less than fluffy!

The wind was the meteorological thing of note.........a head wind and in typical Scottish fashion extremely strong. My car is small, it has an unimpressive number of apparently lazy horses under the bonnet and whilst I couldn't say it struggled the wind alone made rather more gear shifts than is normal necessary! On Sutre Hill, an extremely large bump in the landscape between here and Edinburgh (in cidentally I Googled 'Sutre Hill', in the hope of discovering it's elevation and came up with nothing!) the prospect of retaining a straight line in the road became frighteningly difficult.

Having made it, in a longer time than we had anticipated, to the outskirts of Edinburgh we were met with something I no longer consider and discovered that my tolerance for has diminished to almost nil..........a traffic jam, a big one, no escape route available. My irritation was notable, I just do not 'do' traffic jams anymore, they don't exist, in fact traffic rarely exists I any significant quantity on the journeys I make as a rule nowadays. An hour we sat, miffed and aggravated until we finally escaped and arrived at our destination.

And so the job was done, the cell phone was duly returned and changed for another, a Samsung E600. Yup, I know I said I am a Nokia girl but the lure of a VGA camera that actually produces a picture that can be defined and the attraction of something so tiny and shiny was more than a girl could resist......that and the fact that Nokia seem to have lost the plot a little of late.

That achieved it was off to Ikea......well you just have to visit an Ikea when there is one in close proximity don't you? By now hungry, we were forced to partake of the less than 'haute cuisine' fare on offer but I suppose to complain would be unreasonable, when one considers that two people can eat two courses for less than £10! We wandered around like herding cattle among the throng for a while, purchased the obligatory candles and a small table in the hope of not having to burn our legs with the laptop perched on our laps any longer (man those things give off some heat)and headed home.

The odd thing I discovered in this days activity was my most un-female and un-gemmak like growing disinterest in shopping! Not good, we women shop, it is what we do, the thing we love. All my life shopping could be considered a no.1 activity.........no longer! What on earth is happening to me? Save for more ram, a better graphics card or a bigger hard drive there was nothing I could raise interest in......well ok, I lie, diamonds, one can never have enough good diamonds but then one can rarely afford them either. Mostly we didn't even window shop, we fled the concrete jungle that is the shopping mall with some haste......PG was a happy man!

Scary, I think I'm turning into a hermit! :o)