Artist's Date
Sep. 24th, 2010 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laura_seabrookBeen procrastinating of doing another post, partly due to illness. Last Sunday I had an unexpected ARTIST'S DATE.
I was really keen to get out of the house, and caught a morning local bus. But I didn't know exactly where I wanted to go - just not to the nearest shopping centre. I saw another passenger get off and assumed that he was catching a bus that did a "dogleg" there into town, so I got off as well. Then I discovered that there was a 30 minute wait for the next government bus, so I walked down the road to the nearest stop that other buses would come to.
Looking back I saw another private bus (not listed on the govt timetables) pulling up, so I caught it to Charlestown. Once there I checked the local cinema - nothing for an hour so I had a wander about the revamped Charlestown Square. They're still rebuilding this, but quite a number of shops have reopened. It was actually fun to look about and window shop. I came across the biggest Woolworths I've yet seen! And they had what I'd been looking for the last two weeks - cheap ($1.72) wooden broom handles!
Got something to eat, and then went back to the cinema to watch SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. It was a predictable, but enjoyable film (I especially loved the mirror and Persian rug traps). When I came out I bought the broom handles, did a little extra shopping, and went home. Much later I was sick because the popcorn I'd eaten at the film had butter, not margarine on it (lactose intolerant). Even so, it didn't knock the enjoyment of the semi-random trip, with more than one bout of synchronisity in it.
An unexpected Artist's Date, and so much the better.
I was really keen to get out of the house, and caught a morning local bus. But I didn't know exactly where I wanted to go - just not to the nearest shopping centre. I saw another passenger get off and assumed that he was catching a bus that did a "dogleg" there into town, so I got off as well. Then I discovered that there was a 30 minute wait for the next government bus, so I walked down the road to the nearest stop that other buses would come to.
Looking back I saw another private bus (not listed on the govt timetables) pulling up, so I caught it to Charlestown. Once there I checked the local cinema - nothing for an hour so I had a wander about the revamped Charlestown Square. They're still rebuilding this, but quite a number of shops have reopened. It was actually fun to look about and window shop. I came across the biggest Woolworths I've yet seen! And they had what I'd been looking for the last two weeks - cheap ($1.72) wooden broom handles!
Got something to eat, and then went back to the cinema to watch SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. It was a predictable, but enjoyable film (I especially loved the mirror and Persian rug traps). When I came out I bought the broom handles, did a little extra shopping, and went home. Much later I was sick because the popcorn I'd eaten at the film had butter, not margarine on it (lactose intolerant). Even so, it didn't knock the enjoyment of the semi-random trip, with more than one bout of synchronisity in it.
An unexpected Artist's Date, and so much the better.
