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Monday am. penultimate morning in England.

What I should have done and what I actually did are not the same: it's why I am constantly ill at ease. Firstly the long walk up to Waitrose via St Chad's in Headingley, which was a test to see what the shoes I've been wearing for dog sitting/walking duties since July would be like on a long walk through suburbia to the pain on my left arch area, was a good thing. Then I briefly saw Glenn who was a little shifty and wouldn't come for breakfast across at Fika, so I stupidly bought two doughy bunlike affairs at the bakery/deli just off Hollin Lane which didn't give me the kind of energy I sought. Walking into Meanwood, through the park I didn't feel right so after the purchases I made at Waitrose I wrongly had two sour half pints - one each in Terminus and Alfred - and then, because the new Meanwood Tavern doesn't open until October - where I was going to have one more half and then head back to the flat - I walked back into Leeds along Otley Road, going over ...

Sunday am.

Left mother's at 8. Thoroughly packed and walked down into Wetherby to catch the number 7, which is the first bus into Leeds on a Sunday. It might be a longer journey, but it drops me off on Vicar Lane, it's slightly more picturesque between Wetherby and Leeds, via Boston Spa, Bramham and Thorner, I can see the new East Leeds Orbital Road as it passes on its way to the A64 and it's now only £2 per journey in West Yorkshire. Passing Bramham Park Estate and the Festival is being broken down. I've walked through this area twice. Once to Temple Newsom and once to Aberford. God knows how many years ago that was? During this time of contention millienials will give way to recessionals... Walking up to Headingley for elevensies through Hyde Park I feel as though I have just escaped a prison or endured my time to be allowed to leave through gates...