Friday and Saturday

I am going to have to sue Docklands for divorce on the grounds of misrepresentation. It promised me, promised I tell you, that it would be empty, bereft of people, silent as the grave, populated only by tumbleweeds and grey ghostly apparitions. It is so not true. There were people EVERYWHERE on Friday evening. It was bedlam outside. The trams were chockers. There were THREE party boats loading up with revellers. There was a concert at the stadium with some sort of British band. The Indian community was all off somewhere (the children were dressed in very cute party clothes but that is not the point). There were people milling about in fancy dress. Bedlam I tell you. 

It was entirely unacceptable 😆

I'm not sure what everyone was doing. It was, of course, Halloween. Oasis was playing at the stadium. I assume the party boats were hosting Halloween or Christmas parties. I'm don't know what the Indian community was doing but they were all dressed up in their very best party clothes and the children looked lovely. I really only noticed how busy it was because I was trying to move around on the trams and along the Esplanade. Once I got inside, I enjoyed watching it all from my windows. I couldn't hear Oasis, although some people posted on the Docklands Facebook group that they were enjoying listening from their balconies. I didn't really even notice when the concert finished and all the people went home. The online papers did have footage of hordes of excited concert goers going down the stairs to Spencer Street, singing Oasis songs, so I guess they weren't coming out on my side of the stadium. (They did yesterday evening. I was woken around 11:15 or so by LOTS of very happy concert goers pouring out of the stadium and tsunami-ing along the esplanade. That was not irritating. It was rather nice. What was irritating was the number of car drivers who appeared to think that if they relentlessly leant on their car horns, the rest of the traffic would miraculously disappear!)

Yesterday was a beautiful day. I went across the footbridge and went down those very stairs to Spencer Street to the Coles supermarket. I came back via the Lindt chocolate shop. After lunch I went for a wander along the Esplanade and the Newquay promenade, ending up in the wine shop and the Asian supermarket. I caught the tram home. It was all very sunny and warm and lovely.

I do need to get past the feeling that I am permanently on holiday, though. If nothing else, it is not good for my bank balance!

Summer holiday vibes -
Ice cream by the harbour

Looking from Newquay to Victoria dock

Brandy and Whiskey think they're on
holiday too