Things I'm Wishing Since the Bank Holiday Ended

• That I could get to sleep.


• That I didn't have to go to work.


• That the weather wasn't so nice because it would be lovely to be outside.


• That there was another week to go before I had to go to a conference in Leicester.


• That I didn't have to be at work.


• That I had met a rich man who could keep me in lifestyle I have become accustomed to.


• That he would buy me a small business that I could tinker away at safe in the knowledge that it didn't have to make a massive profit.


• That he would have an open air car (as my sister predicted so long ago) and would come pick me up from work and whisk me away.


• That he had a big house building project that I could get stuck into (love Grand Designs).


• That the house had a huge garden to plant stuff in. I want blossom trees in the bottom of the garden. And miniature waterlilly ponds in huge pots like they have in Thailand. And topiary. And wild meadows.


• That I could spend my days painting, doing embroidery and reading (well perhaps not quite that 18th century - I'd be bored in a month).


• But mostly that I didn't have to go to work.