I ended my morning dog walk writing a grumpy email to the local council about fly tippers. I manage to dispose of my own rubbish in the correct manner, so I don’t understand why just a minority of idiots find it so difficult. I love where I walk the dogs, it’s peaceful and countrified and volunteers have put in a huge amount of work to encourage wildlife back into the area. So it really annoys me that for the second time in a month, I’ve come across a pile of rubbish that could have easily made its way to the local tip – just one mile away!
Stupid idiots (on both occasions) have left their contact details inside too.
Anyway…. what’s this got to do with my work anyway? Well, with working in a city and in a public building 5 days a week, I need the silence, the open space and the comfort knowing that if the dogs want to run off around the fields, they are not going to come limping back because of glass cuts.
Rant over.
I posted my work to the US on Tuesday. As it was only the paper cut out flowers, it was of ‘no value’ (in terms of the customs) so I was able to send it by surface mail. I’d been asking around how long that would take and everyone seemed to be under the impression that it would be 2 – 6 weeks. So it put me in a bit of a dilemma then when the box was taken off me with the words ‘oh it’ll be a minimum of 56 days’. WHAT?? ARGH!!!
A quick check on my calendar told me that we would arrive in the US around the same time (hopefully) but if it doesn’t, I’ll have to stick a bundle of flowers in my case so that I can at least start the installation. 56 days though….. it hadn’t even occurred to me how close the trip was getting.
Had given up with the ACE funding application out of sheer frustration, but I suppose I’d better take another stab at it before it’s too late. (And while I’m in the grumpy form filling mood for the day anyway!)
