Long wait or long weekend

So easter is finally over and its back to work. The long weekend and the short week is behind us.

Being easter meant I finished work on Thursday and didn't start back again until Tuesday, leaving me 4 days off.

It's great being with the kids and being at home but all those Sundays in a row was so boring, church services on the tv and Sunday trading in most shops meant that the days dragged.

With a visit to the local loan shark needed just to be able to afford a day out with the kids and the long bank holiday, slap bang on the middle of pay day ( Tuesday ) we were limited for entertainment.

I wasnt missing work, I was just missing having anything to do.

Then as soon as the alarm went off at 4 am, I ached for the easter weekend all over again.

Just being in the bed in the morning when the kids wake up is priceless. Seeing their faces when they realise that I'm going to be there all day makes me feel so good it hurts, and knowing that I'm going to be back for dinner and around to put them to bed and read them a story is like all their Christmasses have come at once.

The older kids are happy as well and its great to have them around but being teenager they show it an a different way.
I know they like it when I'm home.
You don't know what you have until you lose it and I miss easter now, 200 miles away in Swansea.

Yesterday was the same, up at 4am and into Bromley, Kent for 7 , Then a few easy jobs in Romford, but its today, sitting in Amazon, Swansea, that I miss the normality of steady hours and a normal job.



Amazon is a depressing place most of the time but the one in Swansea is a joke.

You wait outside while the security check your notes, then your allowed to go to goods in office on foot and hand in your notes again.

Goods in, allocate you a bay and then push a yellow plastic chock through the tiny window at you and you have to walk back to your truck with it and then drive in through the gates and onto the bay they allocated you.
When you have parked and chocked the lorry, you hand your keys in and then sit in the drab and dreary waiting room with only a water cooler for refreshment. Sometimes it can take an hour sometimes three, it all depends on what you have on board, today I carry showers! Amazon must be cleaning up.

After Amazon, I had some kerb stones for a new flyover in Bridgend that I had to tailift off onto the site because they didn't have a forklift.









They were building a flyover , they must of had every type of plant on site , except a vehicle capable of lifting a pallet of kerbstones off a lorry.






I left Wales after being mainly on the M4 and made good progress home.

I was feeling hungry for some reason and stopped off at the services. Another empty coach bay and the lorry park a good walk away past the trees.

You can see all the trucks in the distance, although at £1.29 per litre for fuel I'm amazed any one is even on the roads.





I managed to use up only 8. 47 of my 9 hours and would of been home before the rush hour if this Wag & Drag hadn't of driven into our companys car park and started unloading.