Sarah Sturt's Blog

The crazy gang

When you get an email from your boss about how much she's enjoyed reading the latest edition of Kent Life, sent at 10.15pm on a Bank Holiday Monday, you realise several things. One, that it's probably a little crazy to be looking at your work emails at said hour, two - more importantly - that your boss must be just as mad! Or maybe it's three, that we're all so tied up with improving Kent Life that we just can't leave it alone - and I include young Monkey in the crazy gang, as he emailed me his July feature on '10 good reasons to visit Beckenham' at 5.30pm today, so he could 'get into the swing of work for the week.' We probably should all get out more.

Well, I certainly got as far as my garden, where 'part man, part monkey (but not the Monkey, I hasten to add) Gary shinned up my conifer-that-got-too-big-for-its-boots and proceeded to chop away at it until he was literally clinging onto a twig. I've never seen tree surgery that close up before and definitely don't want to change the day job - way too scary. But it's opened up whole new vistas, which of course I immediately started to fill with new shrubs, which will no doubt grow and grow as well...

And then, of course, the rain has to come down, this being England and a BH weekend. I cunningly got to Bluewater as it opened at 10am, feeling justified at being indoors because of all the wet stuff, and then very smug hours later on my return home to see the queues on the M25 on the other side trying to get to shopping mecca. The fools! It was also a bit flooded - the car parks were awash, and GAP had to shut for four hours while a big mopping up exercise took place. Hard to see that there is a downturn in national spending, as the whole centre was heaving by lunchtime.

Better get some shut-eye, I've got a whole shopping list of changes from Suzanne to consider in the morning!

Sarah