It's one of those days

Only halfway through the day but it's been one of those!  A day where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, where I'm feeling out of sorts just because I seem to have achieved nothing and where I'm flitting from one thing to another unable to settle just because things haven't gone to plan.  However I've remembered my promise of yesterday and so have considered each 'calamity' and inspected it to see how it could have been worse.  This is something Ash and I got quite good at on a camping trip to France around 3 years ago.  That holiday was one calamity after another from the truck blowing up on the third day to getting the rented minibus (big enough for camping equipment and the dog) stuck on the first floor of a multistory car park to having to drive solidly for 12 hours through the night to get to the ferry on the last morning and numerous other interesting events along the way but at the end of each day we listed everything that had gone wrong and worked out how it could have been worse retaining our sanity and sense of humour in the process.  So up to now (lunchtime) today hasn't been brilliant but it could have been worse.  I had to cancel two meetings but have managed to re-arrange for next week; wasn't sure if I could get to a third meeting this afternoon but it seems I was never meant to be there anyway; the printer wouldn't switch on but I discovered the socket had been disconnected so now everything's working again; we've had lots of rain but Ash has been kept busy with the rain guage ........ do you see what I mean?  It's not what happens it's the way you look at it all.  Still haven't really managed to achieve anything but meeting up with a friend this afternoon for a cup of tea which seems to be a good way to finish an unproductive day.

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