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Friday 17th June 2005
The following day, M**** had to go to the doctors to the see the mid-wife, so I thought I could use the time off to do a bit more tidying around, making a trip to the tip to dump a load of 15 inch CRT monitors and then to Headingley to drop off a box of unwanted books at the PDSA. Once home I thought, "Ah, I know - I just need to cut my hair with the clippers and have a quick shave."
By the time everything was done, it was probably about 14:15, and it was only then that we set off for Kendal. Our main mission today was to get a rug from this Rugs Emporium place, you see. Fearing we might not get there in time, M**** rang them up at 16:20 to check what time they close (barely eight miles from Kendal).
They said 17:00, so I thought we would make it in time. However, once parked, we had trouble finding the place, so I rang them on M****'s mobile. The conversation went a bit like this: "Hello, Rugs Emporium." "Yes, I'm having trouble finding your shop. I'm on the main road, just past the Brewery Arts Centre. Am I near?" "Well, yes, we're virtually opposite the Brewery Arts Centre, but we're nearly closed." "Erm . . . no, you close at 5pm," "Well, yes, but you see . 
. . it takes us about ten minutes just to lock up and everything." "Yes, but you shut at 5pm and I've been travelling for ages to get here and I now want to buy a rug from you people." Needless to say, when we found the place at 16:50 they had done a pretty good job of making it look like no-one was there. All lights were off. So me and M**** were just a tiny bit cross.
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I seem to be getting ahead of all these pictures. No. I mean, the pictures are getting ahead of me. Anyway, after the
disappointment of Kendal, we headed up to see Tania at ********* Hall. That first picture is M**** sat against Tania's window. In the evening, me, M****, M****'s brother (Simon) and M****'s dad (Mark) went out for dinner at Quite Simply French. Wow. They even have a web-site, not that there's a great deal to see there though.
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