After doing a few jobs this morning I decided to go out for a walk even though it is still below freezing so I wrapped up well and set off. I like to get out every day and have a walk in order to keep myself flexible otherwise everything would get very stiff and I would end up not being able to move.
As I don't like walking the streets I went over to Castle Park and thought I could walk all around the perimeter footpaths and then back along the river. It's nice to hear the birds over there in the trees and also it's easy to watch the squirrels especially as there weren't so many people with dogs as there usually are on a Sunday.
When I got over close to the shopping centre I noticed there were quite a lot of people who had obviously been Christmas shopping as they were coming out laden with bags from various stores. Sunday shopping is something I have never been in favour of and have tried very hard not to do unless for some reason it's been a necesssity.
Anyway, I continued my walk and when I came back off Castle Green I was amazed at all the traffic. In less than half an hour there was a queue for the car park right the way back for about half a mile and as I got round the corner and crossed over the roundabout, I noticed that the queues went back even further on both the main road and the under pass. It didn't seem to be moving much either so I think that a lot of those in the queue would be very lucky if they even got near the car parks before closing time. I did feel sorry for those who might have just been passing through because they would have been stuck too.
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