Sunday, 1 February 2026

We Were Both Going Out,

Diana catching the 354 to go to work, 


I was also catching a 354, but going in the other direction to Bromley, 

and there she was like myself waiting on the opposite side of the road for a bus, 

I was soon in Bromley, and also as my bus turned the first corner there was Diana's bus heading towards her, so there was not much longer for her to wait,

I made my way past Primark, 

and the haberdashery stall, 

and balloon seller, I was on my way to The Glades, 

outside of which there was a flower seller, 

and there it was, 

The Glades in Bromley, 

and this is where I was going, after just 5 days of totally appalling service from BT/EE I was going back to Vodaphone, it happened like this, I was on the telephone to BT/EE on another matter and during the conversation the representative said he could do a good deal on my mobile telephone contract, I mentioned that 5 years ago I went with EE and the service for Ravensbourne and Beckenham Place Park was so bad that EE cancelled their contract a few months through with no cost to me! but the BT/EE rep said all was now well 5G throughout the area, he assured me as he looked it up, well it was not! after several calls in everyone of them somewhere through it the person I called said the usual words for BT/EE, "You are breaking up, can you please repeat that?" so thankfully on Tuesday I will be back with Vodaphone, why oh why did I listen to BT/EE? SIM card in my pocket and DD signed and I was off to do some essential shopping, 

past the balloon seller 

and the seafood stall, 

and I was here into LIDL for some spiced rum, as well as some other food bit & pieces, arriving home it was play time, with a photograph I took of a huge mirrored ball over the courtyard in Beckenham Place Park, 

but I wanted to straighten out the image, so it looked sort of abstract, this was my first attempt, pretty awful, the curved lines especially at the top not straight at all, so I started trying again, but my computer that I have to admit had been playing up, it was now taking over four and a half minuets to switch itself on was one of the problems, any way I found that now 2 of the most important programs I had for editing my photographs did not work, every time I tried to use them I received a message: System Error, MSVCP140_ATOMIC_WAIT.dll Not Found. A job for me tomorrow as it was nearly time for my evening meal,

but first a read and a sherry,

followed by some smoked salmon, 

and a Chinese meal Diana had left for me, 'Cheers!', next one of my films for the evening,

Independence Day: Resurgence, all action and special effects galore, great fun, and the good news another Independence Day, the third is rumoured to be in the pipeline,

 Braveheart, I had watched the movie before, it was a great, almost all action movie, great to watch, but to be fair it was one of the least historically accurate movies that have ever been made, but still enjoyable, trouble was I kept rooting for Longshanks, about halfway through the movie Diana arrived home, so a coffee and a chat, as we watched the film to its end, after which we were off to bed.