Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

The journey to work on the Monday was a pain…  First up, buses from where I live to the bus station were having problems, so I saw on the app that the bus was going to get me there at ten past 5 when the train from Mansfield to Nottingham was leaving at 12 minutes past five - two minutes to get five minutes away. That train was missed, obviously, so I caught the next train, which got me into Nottingham too late for the Nottingham to Newark train, hence catching the later train, getting me into work late.  So I worked the shift, and came back home on public transport, while reading the book The Apple Tree by Daphne Du Maurier. It’s a short story book, so it wasn’t like I read War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy!  Toppermost recording November 1964 US charts (10:30pm-2:00am) We finished watching Lucifer season 5 episode 16, which we followed by watching season 6 episodes 1-6.  We had a short amount of time in the town centre on Wednesday.  We watched the latest (at that time) episode of All Cre

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