Today: Feeling rested and ready to walk after the bank holiday break, the weather is fine and the traffic still in it’s languid summer holiday mood. A lighter post bank holiday delivery day and trying not to think of Thursday when the bank holiday backlog will come flooding through.
Definite autumnal feel, to the freshness in the breeze, the crunching of nuts underfoot and a first brown fallen conker in Church Avenue.
Today: Another fresher day with crisp bright autumn tinted sunlight. Flowers really singing, really enjoyed by these delicate pink flowers/vine that is growing on the fence to the Jenny Lind park.
A lighter Saturday, so a more relaxed walk, with slivers of opportunity to enjoy the job, the chance to chat a little to customers and to notice the surroundings. Almost perfect delivering weather, if only we didn’t deliver to any blocks of flats, which warm us up with the exertion and warm staircase spaces.
Today: A fresher but fabulously sunny day. Delivering went smoothly and despite feeling tired in the morning an enjoyable walk.
Today: Yellow catching my eye today. I admire tenacious dandelions, thriving at the edges. Growing uninvited. Little shots of yellow sunshine.
Another warm day, a busy Wednesday delivery with plenty of parcels/packets. Luckily roads are quiet and mostly people were at home. Happy Posties !!
Today: A hot sweaty sunny August day laced with hints of autumn approaching. Blackberries, fallen conkers, dried leaves and softer shadows. Enjoying crunching beech nut cases underfoot and a first fallen leaf swish in Church Avenue.
Still a number of big beautiful blooms across the walk and the need for a sunhat.
Today: A hot and Sunny Monday delivery. Shocked and saddened to hear from residents about a fatal accident on Newmarket Road on Sunday. Residents felt the road works had contributed to the accident and had the harrowing experience of trying to comfort the trapped cyclist as they died.
Today: A pickle of a day, not quite on it enough and working with a newer colleague who is not familiar with the walk and needed more support than I gave. Three trays of mail, a council letter to most addresses, plenty of parcels and specials and various collections.
Felt like we spent the day driving back and forth, made more complicated by the closure of the junction in the middle of my walk. Traffic carnage.
Overcast and not rainy but thankfully cool enough to not get too hot on bothered .
I love delivering to a chip shop, this magazine, chippy chatter and natter brought a smile to my face.
Today: Glorious clean sharp sunlight and a fresh breeze keeping delivering comfortable. Pleased to have my regular colleague Kelly back. We fly through the delivery.
Very sad to learn that John Last OBE has died. He was Vice Chancellor at NUA when I studied there, a man full of vigour and brim. He lived on our delivery and it has been alarming watching him deteriorate into ill health. Reminded again of the intimate nature of being a postie, the joys and sadnesses of watching life.
Today: Sharp shadowy morning, fresh but warm. Enjoying working with a new colleague and re seeing the walk through having to describe all the idiosyncrasies. Tried towards the end of the walk having given blood the evening before.
Ginny Bain 