Out and about, getting away from stuff!

This morning we had a plan. We were going to go out for breakfast at the cafe in the village before going to meet other branches of the family at Dovestone reservoir for a family day out.

It began well enough. We got up, got organised and walked into the village, only to find that on a Sunday the cafe does not open until 10.30. By that time we wanted to be in the reservoir car park meeting the rest of the gang. So we revised the plan and bought croissants and pain au chocolat at the co-op and returned home for breakfast.

Breakfast over, we set off a little later than planned to drive to Dovestone. Going though Uppermill we got stuck in a queue of traffic waiting for the Morrismen to stop dancing in the road. Some rude words were said! To avoid the dancing men we did a u-turn and went the back way, via the road that leads to the golf club, only stopping once to make room for someone coming in the opposite direction.

As we got close to Dovestone we phoned those of our party who had already arrived, asking if there was parking space and getting mixed messages. The sunshine brings people out and the reservoir carpark could well be crowded. One of our advisers said there was no chance. The other said the early-morning dog-walkers were already leaving so we were in with a chance. We took a chance and it worked.

In the end we did not walk all the way round the reservoir but stopped not far into the walk to allow the small people to paddle in the river. Which, by the way, was extremely cold!

By late morning some of our party were getting hangry -grumpy from hunger - so we headed off to Diggle for lunch and an excellent ice cream. This was followed by some adventures in a nearby park and eventually back to my house for tea and cake.

This - all the family activity - is what I have been doing to take my mind off the suggestion that Boris Johnson wants to try to close government down for five weeks before Brexit, allegedly to prevent parliament from doing anything to extend the deadline for leaving the UK. The mind Boggles! We are in the middle of important stuff, the government has had a summer recess and now Johnson wants to close things down again!! Do they get paid through all of this? And can he democratically do such a thing?

Another means of escapism is to stop watching the news and just watch box sets and films on Netflix. It seems they have just announced that they will release a new Breaking Bad film, bringing Jesse Pinkman back to the fore of the story. The film is called El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. It was written and directed by the show’s creator Vince Gilligan and will be released on Netflix on 11 October. There is some debate about whether or not Walter White will be resurrected for the film. Why? And how? He looked pretty dead at the end of the final series.

Why can’t people be content with a good series, rounded off with the ends tied off? Can they not find something new to occupy their minds and their time?

In the meantime, actor Aaron Paul who played Jesse Pinkman so well commented this : “All I can say, I think people will be really happy with what they see.”