Frequent heavy showers of rain prevent me from mowing the grass down at the allotment (as planned) today, so I’m confined to the house (aside from when the rain lets up enough for a dog walk). I resume my search online for the best Gatwick car parking and hotel deals for our holiday in a couple of months time. I book car parking on the airport with Gatwick Parking – not the cheapest, by any means, but it does mean that I can be fairly certain that nobody will be racing around in my car while we’re away (because I’ll have the car keys with me) and when we get back from holiday we won’t have far to go to collect the car. I shortlist several hotels in the vicinity of the airport (our flight time means that we would have to leave home at about 4am to be fairly certain of being at the airport in time, so we decided it would be less stressful to drive down the previous evening and stay in an hotel local to the airport) – I’ll let my wife choose where she’d like to stay.
There’s a gap in the rain late in the afternoon, so I take the opportunity to walk the dog again, then have a quick tidy up and vacuum downstairs before the boss gets home.