Around The World In 80 Waves

The car I have bought is great but I need to get the board on the roof if only to create space for me to sleep in it from time to time. It would also be good to have some company at various stages of the journey so I MUST sort out a roof rack. However it is turning into a Grail Quest, and a painful one at that. Everywhere says they are open online but I drive halfway across the city to each vendor who is either closed, hostile, locking up having sent the staff home early, but most importantly for all of them unable to sell me the final piece of a three piece jigsaw which I must collect before departing. Sadly I will now have to wait two days until people start answering phones and I can even get an ETA on when I can lay my hands on the last bit of kit.

Having all that grief and having to do other very boring stuff like walking for an hour to find a post office which closed 10 minutes before I got there, printing off and finalising my limited company’s accounts for last year, etc means this is a really frustrating day. It is New Year’s Eve so I will have to go out and raise a glass to sooth my furrowed brow.