24 April 2026

Saundersfoot, Stratford-upon-Avon & Wall-E

Well, my day at work, today, has been pretty pointless. Virgin Media is down, so there is no internet, no server and no phonelines. My manager is very poorly, so he has taken the day off as holiday and gone home. I have counted stock unnecessarily just for something to do, I have emptied the bins, deep cleaned the kitchen, cleaned my desk and I have read a printed-out copy of the company’s quality manual, which is one of my tasks to do anyway, so I was kind of productive. The day has gone by incredibly slowly though, and I have a twitch over my left eye. Stressing about not being able to work and all of the work that I will have to do on Monday, to play catch up, definitely isn’t helping.
          What I did want to write about though, is that over the Easter bank Holiday weekend, I went on what is potentially my last holiday. Side note, potentially is my brain’s new go-to word, so I am very sorry for not realizing how many time I will overuse it. I didn’t exactly enjoy my holiday, because I spent the whole time feeling very upset from an avoidant situationship, which I am now out of and am already feeling like a normal person again.
          Anyways, where was I? Okay, so I treated myself and went to Tenby and Saundersfoot on Good Friday and I didn’t come back until late on Easter Monday. I have never been away for three nights to Saundersfoot before. I have only ever done two. The only time I have ever been away anywhere for longer than two nights was back in June 2016, and I went to Talybont with my ex-partner.
          The weather wasn’t the best. This was during the Storm Dave. I had 35-50mph constant wind, but I did still manage to walk 20 miles on the Saturday and 22 miles on the Sunday. It didn’t rain the entire time either. I managed to get a few dry patches. I collected pebbles from Saundersfoot, Wiseman’s Bridge and Amroth, and I painted my colleagues little beach-themed pictures, as a little holiday present. I really enjoyed that. My mum bought me a new pack of Posca pens specifically for this, which I am very grateful for, as my old ones have mostly dried up now.
          I unintentionally found a cute, fruit themed toy. I really hate the look of the popular Labubu fluffy bag charms. They look ugly and scary. I found a little gift shop that sold blind boxes of really cute fruit-themed similar style bag charm toys. There were four to collect, a grapefruit themed character, a kiwi one, a lemon one and an avocado one. I bought four and got two lemon themed characters and two avocado themed characters. They are so incredibly cute. I love them so much. I am going to keep one for best and then I can use the duplicate to actually hang from my bag.
          Last Sunday, a colleague to me to my favourite place, Stratford-upon-Avon for the day. He was looking after me, because I had been crying constantly for the past three days. I was his personal tour guide. I showed him where Shakespeare’s birthplace was, we visited the riverside markets, we passed the Shakespeare gardens, where William Shakespeare’s house was, we visited The Guild Chapel and learnt a lot about its links to the Masons and its Doomsday references. Then we went to Trinity church, but sadly, it was closed, so we couldn’t pay our respects to William Shakespeare. We did sit by the riverside and enjoyed a cup of tea, whilst watching couples row boats up and down the waterway. Then we went over to Cox’s Yard and took a flyer for the plays at The Attic this year. We had a really nice day and the time flew by.
          This weekend, we are going to the Think Tank in Birmingham to watch Wall-E on the 3D cinema. I’m really looking forward to it. We are, also, going to look around the museum at all of the old engineering. They are supposed to have an old steam train section and some old planes too. It is nice to have a friend who has the time of day for me. I am really looking forward to tomorrow now. And, today is the first day where I haven’t got upset, yet.

          The internet came back on at 10:30am. I have rushed to try and catch up on most of my work. I don’t think I have a lot left to do right now. I have labels to print, but I can’t do that right now, because James and Amy are in the downstairs production room, which is annoying. I am in such a good mood today, despite my twitching eye. I have no idea why. It is almost as if the universe is telling me that today is going to be a good day or a lucky day, is what it feels like
          Oh, I did my tarot cards this morning too. I am trying to pull three every morning, before work, and today I got the Nine of Cups, the Eight of Pentacles and the Ace of Pentacles. Having the wish fulfilment card is nice. I think it kind of just means that I am doing well and I am taking small steps to look after myself again.
          Note to self: Remember to periodically look for Jellycat’s May Macaron, as I really like her, but she sold out on the Jellycat website.

- Josie -

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