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The Lakes

Bench with view. Top of Latrigg in the Lake District
PICTURE DESCRIPTION Picture of the bench near the top of Latrigg fell

I’ve been going to the Lake District quite abit recently with my sister, due to taking someone we know up there as they are ill.

So I haven’t been doing much blogging. I also haven’t had any appointments either. So still waiting on things to happen.

This is the view from the top of Latrigg, which is just about at the bottom of their garden. No filters. It just looked like that when I got to the top.

This is one of the fells Wainwright writes about.

Hopefully next time I go, I will get up there again.

This time with a nice flask of coffee, and more prepared than I was last time. I walked up there in ballet pumps. But that just shows my determination with most things in my life.

At one point I did look like a shopper that had got lost, but now I’ve got the gear and more of an idea, it’s amazing how beautiful it is up there.

Woman with brown hair looking at lakes scene. Stones circle
PICTURE DESCRIPTION Picture of the Stone Circle in Keswick with sunset and cartoon figure of myself looking away from camera
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Call me – My New Phone.

Woman with brown hair holding a large mobile phone.

I’ve got myself a bigger screened phone.

It’s so big I feel like shouting “Hello” at it.

Had my old phone some years now and it’s stopped updating some apps on it.

It just genuinely hard work ☺.

Send people voice messages. Then I get “Can’t hear you”… “Can hear you now”

Endless checking they have gone through.

This one I have to say is a great improvement. One of those ideas I should have made reality a long time ago.

Also, being a bigger screen will help me use it alot more comfortably.

I’ve stuck with a Samsung as I know what I’m doing with it. It’s an A12.

So if you’re struggling with a phone that you cannot use properly, either through it generally just being old or have visual problems. If you can at the moment, make your life easier. I have.

Posted in Funny Stories, How I'm Adapting

National Express

Was going into town to meet a friend the other week. So decided to have a nice walk to the bottom of the hill to catch the bus.

I needed a day Rider/Rover thingy bob. As I was going further afield. So, I counted out some coins at home. It’s less stressful. Popped them in my jeans pocket, all organised like. Ready for the bus.

The bus came. I’m looking at my handful of coins. I’m now really doubting my seeing skills from earlier. Not wanting to be too short on the bus fare and then having to panic scramble about in my purse looking for coins that I can’t see unless it’s the 50p or the pound coin. Knowing this would make me less likely to get the correct ones as I’m under pressure. I decided to scrap that idea.

Bus arrived. I told people waiting to go infront of me. This would give me abit of time to think what I would do.

Then, like a lightbulb going off in my head. I remembered my new contactless bank card. I’m a genius. I thought. Glanced up looking at the bottom of the bus to see if they accepted it. They did! Embarrassment averted. Got on the bus. Very pleased with myself that now I have this card I don’t have any trouble with pin numbers, card machines or coins anymore! Only to be confronted by a black thing infront of me I didn’t recognise.

After wafting my card all over and around the black thing. Like I was swatting a fly. The bus driver then eventually told me where to place the card.

Found a seat and thought well I least I know where to put it next time. I text my friend to tell her I was on the bus and it would be around near her bus stop soon.

Except it wouldn’t.

I looked up and saw stairs. Its supposed to be a single decker. In my panic about coins. I got on the wrong bus.

Woman on bus with brown hair looking shocked