{"id":34400,"date":"2017-03-01T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=34400"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:58:27","slug":"off-to-tesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/off-to-tesco\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Tesco"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on the tail end of another large burst of work. I’ll have made for one of my clients in the last week what I normally invoice them for in three weeks! So I’ve only had time for work and puppy stuff the last few days. But today, I really had to get some groceries. I debated doing one final order with Tesco delivery since there are no full size grocery stores I can walk to and it’s a mile to a Tesco Express, but decided that I didn’t want to end up like in Hebden with too much food I need to use up and just get my groceries locally. Since I’m hoping to get to town tomorrow to do another self-guided walk (no time for that today), I didn’t particularly want to walk in to get my groceries. So I did some research and found another Tesco Express in the opposite direction and still only a mile from me.<\/p>\n

So off I went around 10:30 this morning. Part of my route was through a park I go to daily with Puppy. She’s not a very good walker yet, so I didn’t want to take her all the way to the shop, plus I didn’t want to have to leave her outside. So she stayed home.<\/p>\n

Considering the poor road signage for cars, there is decent pedestrian signage on footpaths. This is the first one I saw coming into the park. My destination is on the side you can’t see very well.<\/p>\n

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This is a park straight out of my childhood. It has a proper playground.<\/p>\n

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There’s\u00a0big wide open field for playing with your dog or kicking a ball.<\/p>\n

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I used to love biking on tracks like these when I was a kid! You can also see a basketball court where some local girls like to rehearse their cheerleading routines.<\/p>\n

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I went under this railroad bridge.<\/p>\n

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I walked below the Shrewsbury Flaxmill, which is undergoing a major regeneration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s a very interesting building. I can imagine those bits projecting out as flats with wonderful views of the park, not that that’s what they’re doing with them.<\/p>\n

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I came around the front and was impressed by all the scaffolding.<\/p>\n

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There’s an art installation in front of the building site to keep people from having to look at the grey walls\u00a0for two years. So there are a bunch of paintings, like this “Monet.”<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the paintings are all on chip board and deteriorating quickly. Here’s another one that’s aging well, though:<\/p>\n

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One side of the street in this Shrewsbury suburb had buildings that made me think of apartment buildings\u00a0I’d find back home, except maybe for the bay windows.<\/p>\n

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But the other side was definitely “English.”<\/p>\n

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It’s a “gold bead<\/a>,” but not the kind of bead I was expecting.<\/p>\n

As expected, the Tesco Express was small, but adequate except for lacking in unsweetened almond milk and having slightly higher prices than online. I was able to put together a decent shop for \u00a320 and am pretty sure that I’ll only need to do a slight top up at the shop around the corner from the house as I only have a week to ten days left here (depending on if I take the owner up on her offer to stay a few days to go explore locally).<\/p>\n

I came in and spent some time exhausting Puppy so I could then get back to work. Thankfully, I learned very quickly in my stay here that when she’s in one her manic moods, I just need to give her my undivided attention for 10 to 20 minutes and wear her out with some ball throwing before she’ll flop down for a two-hour nap and let me work. I was really concerned the first couple of days I was here that I wouldn’t be able to work with her being so insane sometimes and I’m glad that we’ve settled into a schedule that works perfectly for us both. I mean, by the time she’s done with her two-hour nap, I’m as ready for a break as she is for playtime! Minding Puppy has been exhausting, but so rewarding and I know I’ve done a very good job of it.<\/p>\n

Back to work I go… I should be able to go have some fun tomorrow as long as the weather holds. If I do, there will definitely be sushi. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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