Saturday 20 December 2008

Paper boys

Ben took up a paper round in April 2007 and after just one week, already was getting help from me; help I freely offered by the way, with Saturdays and Sundays. The papers are just so big on those days.

Today is Ben's last day on the round before we leave (we'll be off to Heathrow "when we're ready") so I collected the papers in the car and we delivered without the bikes today. Ben's picked up some nice tips, but better still, I think, after we persuaded him to send his customers a card, he has had some nice ones back, with his name on.

It's not bad doing the papers. the early start's a pain somedays, but you get to feel you are a link with the stories of the outside world for many.

No-one gets the Independent Though (apart from me). Nearly all Mail and Telegraph readers near us.


We are almost ready to go now. Bags packed and weighed....tickets printed....and we'll be on our way to the hotel near the airport, and flying at 10.15 am in the morning.

Later edit.....the trip to Heathrow didn't quite go as planned as we thought it would be nice to start the holiday off with a bite to eat at Pizza Express in Huntingdoin High Street. But we got there just after 5.00 to find they were booked up. So Plan B was a trip to Tesco's where we bought butties, drinks, and more loose tea to take for Margaret, along with more sweets for Sarah and Samantha, to go with the loose tea, mustard powder and chocolate digestives we already had in the suitcases.

We had booked a night in the Sheraton at Heathrow for the pleasantly inexpensive amount of £59.00 for the room, to include parking for the two weeks; a cost cheaper by £13 than what we paid to leave the car at Stansted for just a week, in August.

We ate and shot back to the room to see who won Strictly Come Dancing.

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