Today: foggy windscreen, first frost, emptying trees.
A chilly start to a sunny mornings delivery. A panic search for the one o’clock specials which resolved itself. A beautiful morning.
Out on Delivery: Fri 4 Nov
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Out on Delivery: Thu 3 Nov
Today: Puddles…Roseacre, Newmarket Road and Church Avenue: Foggy Windscreen leaf.
Flooding and puddles defined the day. Excited by the news that we are getting Electric vans soon. Lots of mail and wet. Pleased to be finished.
Out on Delivery: Tue 1 Nov
Today: A non native spider, Mount Pleasant: Soggy leaves, Lime tree road: Flagstone patterns, Town Close School
The first of November and Autumn is soggier, browner, slushier and less magical. Windy and wet. New waterproof coats is less waterproof than last and I finish the walk wet through.
Out on Delivery: Mon 31 Oct
Today: Halloween pumpkins: Benjamin Gooch Way, Mount Pleasant and Ipswich Grove.
Clocked in and out of work for the first time today. Nothing too scary in today’s delivery or in the weather. A warm sunny gift of a morning.
Out on Delivery: Wed 26 Oct
Today: Fabulous colours Benjamin Gooch Way: Foliage and shadow, 7 Paxton Place: Shade of green fig, Church Avenue East: Leaf, Ipswich Grove: Leaf, Grove Avenue.
A return from another strike day. Again it felt like a Monday. The most beautiful balmy morning that took a nasty, unexpectedly wet turn in the middle. Caught out without a rain coat. Apprehensive as to what tomorrow will bring…
Out on Delivery: Tue 25 Oct
Today: Damp leaves everywhere catching my eyes
Too much mail for our allocated work time, a fraught tense day and a feeling of not being able to deliver one’s best. A disappointing discovery that tomorrow we strike again. Silver linings of half term empty roads and being gifted a liquorice all sort jar by one of my customers(it was on it’s way to the charity shop) that my Dad will love.
Out on Delivery: Fri 21 Oct
Today: 98 Newmarket Rd: 115 Newmarket Rd: 7 Plantsman Close: Limetree road: Ipswich Grove
My eyes are on the leaves today, a glorious range of colours and a damp misty day to enjoy them in. Feeling dislocated in time since we were on strike the office has a Monday flavour, everyone fresh and rested.
Working with a different colleague so a fresh energy. Just the right amount to mail to deliver for the time, so a relaxed but focussed days work. Customers chatty today. Favourite comment was “ oh I hope your not going on strike”, confirming my feelings that the strike action is mainly inconveniencing us posties.
Out on Delivery: Wed 19 Oct
Today: The sunlight just disappearing on 2 Ipswich Rd: Fig leaf: Delivery office car park reflected in car.
A totally crazy day. So much mail, practically every call. We had our parcels taken off but still struggled to get done in time. Heads down hard walking with not much noticing time.
Difficult to keep moral up when we strike again tomorrow and so are set for more large, difficult delivering days Friday and Saturday.
Out on Delivery: Tue 18 Oct
Today: Bright morning light reflection off delivery office, Roundtree Way: Autumn colours and light, Thomas Wyatt Way: Light filled tree, Phillipa Flowerday Plain: Favourite foliage, Plantsman Close: Exquisite Autumnal leaf, Ipswich Rd.
Another beautiful autumn day, still, sunny and bright. Low sun illuminating trees and houses. Not too busy and far too lovely a day to feel stressed. An vexing moment collecting a mountain of parcels in Mount Pleasant having to rescan 23 parcels at least twice to find the rogue unscanned item.
Ginny Bain 