Sally Mair - Loving life

By Sallymair

Fringe benefits?

I went into town this morning, I had a facial booked at John Lewis and discovered I also had a freebie on my John Lewis card of a free breakfast roll which runs out tomorrow. For the first time ever I was disappointed by the JL cafe. They had a queue of around 10 people waiting to get in to the service area. Nice that they were keeping the area uncrowded. After 20 minutes though it was twice as lounge and it became clear that the queue was moving extremely slowly, if at all. One of the three drinks stations was out of action, the one person putting the rolls together was doing so so slowly that it was almost funny. The whole experience, if it doesn't sound ungrateful, was not good. By the time you queued for your food your coffee was cold, or if you went for the food first it was cold by the time you got your coffee. Not sure what the answer is but they need to do something.
My facial however was lovely.
I met a friend in the Portrait gallery a little later at 1.45 I had coffee and he had lunch. The restaurant had only one type of sandwich - Tuna with sweetcorn and cucumber, you could have it as a roll or a croissant though! The soup had already run out, there was no hot food left and my friend had the last filled roll. My second poor food experience of the day.
My blip was on the lower floor of John Lewis, their tribute to the festival presumably, I thought it was rather clever but I should have taken the picture from a different angle. I was too busy trying to avoid having people in the shot.
I was appalled by the state of the town as I went through on the bus. So much rubbish everywhere. I know there is a a strike on, but it looks such a mess. Which is, I guess, the whole point of the exercise, it would be pointless if nobody noticed.

Here's a bonus Art Quiz about Barbara Hepworth, delighted to have got 8/10. Enjoy.

https://nationalgalleries.typeform.com/to/JTGzzvqc

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