By: Blonde Two
By Blonde One
On a school night this is the usual routine:
• Leave the office at 5.30pm ish
• Drive home
• Work at the dining room table
• Eat dinner (cooked by Mr Blonde One)
• Do some more work at the dining room table
• Move to the settee to watch some inane TV while doing a little bit of inane work
• Go to bed
Boring, I think you’ll agree? So when my very good friend, JuLu and I decided to do something different, I felt a little bit naughty to be breaking from the normal humdrum routine. We decided to travel up to Dartmoor, have tea in the pub with Blonde Two and then stay in a very lovely camping barn. It was a perfect evening; there was laughing, chips, beer, wood burning and lots more laughing.
For a camping barn it was very well equipped and we soon felt at home.
We made good use of the toilet and shower, electric lights, benches and gas stove. We soon chose to sleep on the mezzanine floor above the wood burner (hoping it would be warmer) and listened to the bats doing their thing. We had a fair night sleep and woke up with a pretty view past the barn’s own mini clapper bridge, over the fields to Hound Tor, looking forward to a pleasing drive across the moors to work.
I can recommend making an effort to do something different on a school night and I really hope that I’ll be doing it again very soon.
Not boring at all: a wealth of self-realisation which entrances me. After all the final stage is: Go to bed. It could have been: Fall asleep on the settee (middle-class for sofa, I believe), wake at 3 am feeling guilty and disoriented, stand in garden among the dahlias and bay the moon. Or have you already tried that?
That word “humdrum”, one of my favourites then it got so that I couldn’t rid myself of the infection. I wonder if, seeing it here at Two Blondes Walking, has exorcised me. Do you know where you picked it up?
Hi Roderick. Blonde One and I have been discussing ‘humdrum’ today; it really isn’t very Blonde is it? Maybe a switch around, ‘drumhum’ could be a bit more exciting (either that or just plain noisy!)
I loved it! More of these must come, with B2 as well next time. Booooooooo to school!
Oh yes please, I would really like to sneak out on a school night!
Good for you! You should definitely do more ‘different’ things on a school night. You never know, I might one day too!