Day 329: Flapjack Flapjack Flapjack

Today, for the first time, possibly not for the last, I took an office chair on the bus with me. Walked it around like a dog to get it that far, and home after getting off. It behaved. Sat in the luggage rack, it did. I would have preferred to sit on it in the disabled/pram area, but I reckon I'd have rolled off a few times. Very grateful to the Levy. Nobody tried to sit on the chair while I was walking it through Islington. I had a twinge of disappointment about that. I was just about to say 'I would have', but would I? If I was 16 I would have. Or if the person's face told me there was any chance at all it would please them, then I think I still would. 

That makes me remember Rob's game of getting people to say no to you. 

This made me laugh (thanks, Michael Smith). http://imgur.com/a/lUWTG

Sarah Lonton was a delight. She always is. She bought a cracking bag today, and some hideous Christmas cards. I failed to give her the dress she's going to look after for me. It was mere metres away (quite a number of metres, like, and mostly upwards ones, but it was close) but I forgot. 

Thank you to the man in the hardware shop who agreed that three metres was about five cookers in length. He showed me lots of versions of what three metres looks like until I managed to explain to him that he had me at the cookers, but the bit I wasn't sure of was the length of the room I need the extension to span. I know now. It'll have to be five metres. Three would be tight, and nobody wants that. 

This image's name is: Flapjacks

My room is starting to look almost 'done'. It's strangely bare. Not much character. We're getting there. I have one very pleasing shelf full of books, and Scary Baby is currently reaching out of my knicker box (an old wine crate). 

I enjoyed watching Rob Reason purposefully put a flapjacky gift on Anna's desk, with a tiny post-it on. I liked watching people make each other cups of tea. I liked the conversations I had with lots of different people. It's wonderful to be part of such a  helpy, shary community, and Anna has worked hard - and still does, daily - to make it so.

Grateful to Rebecca for the contact and to Kate for the chat about more work. Exciting. Lovely to have breakfast with Ruth, too. Very nice. I like being close enough to pop round.