Saturday 30th August 2025, 15:42
Been without WiFi most of the day. So here are my notes.
In the March Hare tea shop on The Oxebode, Gloucester having a scone with cream and jam and a pot of tea. Very pleasant but no WiFi.
I was complimented on my green dress and bare feet by a good looking woman member staff in the charity shop a couple of doors away.
Apart from my thong and bra which I bought new the whole outfit including hat and jewellery came from charity shops. The most expensive piece is my necklace which I splashed out 5.00 GBP on in the shop that was part of a garden and café charity complex. I suppose the whole outfit, excluding undies, cost less than 20 GBP including the handbag.
As I was walking along the street after my scone a woman walked past me and said she admired me for going barefoot and that she wished she were brave enough. I said she didn't need courage, she just needed to get on with it and that it probably less dangerous than her trainers one of ehich was trailing undone laces!
I came out without earrings! Perhaps I'll find some in a charity shop.
Bought a set of three pairs of 'gold' earrings in Primark for 3.50 GBP. Now I feel fully dressed.
13:53
In the Tudor tearoom attached to St Mary's church having a mug of tea and a packet of crisps.
It looks like it doesn't get much business. Just three of us. I suspect that local people might come in once and not bother again as the ready made food offerings are a bit scanty. So it's relying on tourists.
Shame really because it's a reasonable location and very comfortable inside. It just lacks a welcoming air somehow. The woman behind the counter doesn't help by irritatingly ending almost every sentence with a cheery 'No worries!'.
Anyway, I've done the errand I came out for which was to buy a bra extender for my smaller cup size bra. I'm considering wearing a bra after all when I come out to family and friends but toning it down. The problem is that I can't find a band size 42 with a cup smaller than a B which is what I usually wear. So I bought a 38A which of course is a bit tight. Then sometime before I meet my sister I'd better sew pockets on to it to hold some sort of insert in.
Next I need to find some WiFi so I can buy my return tail ticket. If buy it at the station it will cost three times as much. To me that sounds like discrimination against people without smartphones. Why is cash not worth as much as the same amount of digital money? Or should I simply be grateful that they accept cash at all as there are so many businesses in the UK that do not. We have laws against that back home.
14:40
Found WiFi but only in a shop, not really where I want to grapple with Transport for Wales. So I used it to find out where the Turk's Head had moved to, it's now in St Aldate's Street. So I'm having a pint of very dry cider. At least I'm drinking what's left after I managed to knock my glass off the table. It landed upright and launched about a third of a pint up in the air about half landed on the floor but quite a lot reached above head height and landed on me!
No WiFi here but I wasn't expecting any either. In its previous incarnation it even had notices prohibiting mobile phones.
15:54
Now I'm in the bus station café having a pretty bad mug of coffee while waiting for the 16:17 train to Cheltenham. It was empty when I arrived ten minutes ago now it's almost full and almost everyone is either very overweight or in a wheelchair.
