Forgive me my transgressions

Forgive me my transgressions whilst eating.
Today I have used and disposed of:

7 tea bags;
2 mini containers of UHT milk;
1 mini carton of butter;
1 mini carton of strawberry jam;
1 serving box of Kelloggs Corn Flakes;
1 carton of cherry yoghurt with foil lid;
1 plastic bottle of pure orange juice;
1 plastic bottle of lemon lime and spring water;
1 plastic container for lemon and coriander chicken in a chilli pepper wrap;
1 plastic tray containing two slices of Soreen malt loaf (buttered) with foil wrap;
1 plastic pack of Coffee Primo all-butter shortbread;
1 plastic pack of Coffee Primo large eccles cake;
1 plastic pack of Galaxy hot chocolate drink;
1 complimentary copy of The Independent (to read whilst eating);
Various plastic or paper packages containing small amounts of sugar, sauce, salt, pepper, vinegar;
1 plastic pack containing a bunch of grapes.

I did buy a banana without any packaging;
I did also refuse a disposable carrier bag in Sainsbury's;

But: forgive me my transgressions whilst eating, for I am a helplessly modern traveller.

Forgive me my transgressions whilst walking.
Today I have taken the following routes:

- a walk down the centre of the motorway service station lorry park between two rows of articulated lorries parked, pulling in or preparing to draw away;
- a walk along the edge of the motorway service station slip road in search of a public footpath;
- clambering over a motorway service station boundary fence on the same search;
- sheltering underneath trees on a golf course during a downpour;
- a walk along a golf course approach road to connect with a public footpath (to a bridge over the M62 near J25);
- squeezing through a gap in temporary construction fencing on a pavement in Brighouse to get a better angle for a photograph of the canal;
- wandering around the expansive outdoor premises of British Car Auctions (riverside of the A644 Wakefield Road near M62 J25) to get a sense of the scale of vehicles on sale there;
- wandering around the Holiday Inn car park (uphill off the A644 Wakefield Road near M62 J25) to get a good view across the valley to the motorway and beyond;
- into the gents toilets at Tescos Brighouse without stopping before or after to make any purchases in the store.

I did keep to the prescribed pedestrian routes while attempting to cross roads in Brighouse;
I did resist the temptation to investigate the snack bar set up just outside the motorway service station boundary fence, serving cheap and fulsome food and drink to truckers;

But: forgive me my transgressions whilst walking, for I am an eccentric traveller.

Comments

[Stuart]

Hi John

In a paralell universe, some way above you on the motorway itself, stuck in Friday afternoon traffic heading East,past J25, I pondered whether you had made it to Brighouse yet!

I think you were probably in the better universe.

keeping heading west.

All the best

Stuart

[Dot]

good to catch up with you today!!

[John Davies]

Stuart/Dot - thanks: it was good to see you both, in different places, on this journey.

[Kathryn]

That packaging list makes amazing (and sobering) reading.
Take care as you keep on keeping on.