Trail – Will I ever get there?

Shocking grammar but I’m too miserable to care. I will probably delete this in the morning but I need to rant!

This time last year I’d just had two weeks off, and I’d climbed Catbells. We were having one of the hottest summers on record and things were all rosy.

This year, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen Andy since May, anything I say is wrong (that’s when he’s not too tired to even talk to me) and I can’t see us getting a holiday this year, or ever again at this rate. I’ve given up pointing out that nobody is indispensible, there’s a whole world out there and if he were to be run over by a bus tomorrow (or have a heart attack from stress, which is more likely), they would just get someone else to fill his shoes, but apparently I don’t understand.

To top it all, my flat still isn’t ready, four months after I signed and paid the reservation fee and three months after they said it was completed and ready to move into. Today they said they wanted to serve notice on me to complete and exchange by a certain date, or they would remarket it. It’s not even me holding the process up – it’s their legal department!

I hate the british summer, I hate the entire photographic industry and I hate everyone who’s had a hand in my flat purchase!

P.S I forgot something. After being nagged by Michael and Helen from Paramo I finally phoned up and paid for my Alta jacket today. No, I didn’t get to keep it for free like the others did with all their Blacks kit, but they did me a deal, and to be honest I know which brand I’d rather have! At least with this rubbish weather I’ve no excuse not to wear it!