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Today's the day, it was time to take mum's prescription renewal form up to the docs. "Just nipping up to the vet's" I said.

"Ooh. I'll come with you," she said.

This would, of course, have been a good thing. For mum to take a brisk, or even leisurely, stroll up to the surgery and back would be a breakthrough moment, normally the only place I can get her to walk is round a supermarket. Unfortunately a brief exchange of words later revealed that she wanted to go up in the car, she said it would "Get her out a bit."

I painfully tried to explain that going from sitting in front of the TV to sitting behind a windscreen does not qualify as getting out a bit, but she was adamant, she just wanted to get out of the house. It was at this point that I conceived of a brilliant plan.

I would drive to the supermarket and we could walk around it buying Easter eggs.

We got into the car and I instantly forgot about going to take the meds renewal form up to the doctor's place and headed off in the other direction.

It was a beautiful day and as I drove the idea came to me that we could go to a supermarket in another town, that would get her about a bit, it would make me feel like there was a purpose to the drive, and it would also give her a bit of a walkabout. So I took a fairly random turn, my only intention being to head south, and I'm not certain at what point it was that I realised that I was now on the main road south to the seaside.

The trouble with main roads is that they don't tend to have supermarts on them, but I was now a bit obsessed with reaching the seaside, so apart from the odd detour through passing towns I stuck pretty much to the main drag and pondered which bit of the southern seaside I should head for.

So there we were driving along the road that serves a large chunk of the south coast, and suddenly hunger struck and I decided that I was going to head seawards right... here.

We hit the seaside and I noticed a little railway running alongside it, so instead of stopping to eat right there I drove alongside it to see if the trains were running yet. They weren't so I continued along my way looking for somewhere with a feeding hole.

By the end of the road, with nowhere to go except back or into the sea, we were both getting a little punch drunk with hunger, but fortunately I still had enough sense to head back, and there we saw a place amidst a load of gorse/broom/furze. Driving over to it it soon became apparent that it had been closed for a while, and mildly miffed as we were we set off to drive back onto the road, and there we saw a little kiosk with seats outside it.

Yay! I pulled into the car park and parked the car about as far from the kiosk as I could get. Mum was going to walk if it was the last thing I did, and we went to the kiosk and ordered some nosh, then went out to sit in the sun and the howling sea breeze to eat. As we ate a car pulled into the car park and just for a moment looked like it was going to pull up by the kiosk before changing its mind and going the other way, to pull up alongside our car. Seconds later I heard a voice.

"See? I told you it was."

I looked up, and there were my sister and her husband walking towards us. Like us they hadn't set out with the intent of actually coming to this place, but apparently they did know of this little kiosk so when hunger struck they simply decided to come thisaway. Everyone managed to avoid saying that it was a small world on account of to do so would cause the other three to shout "Small? Sammmallll???? Why, it's BIG! The world is humungous!" I have no idea why, it's just something that's grown up between us. Nevertheless it was a pretty weird coincidence. Just not as weird as the next thing to happen.

"When we've eaten shall we walk it off with a walk through the nature reserve?" asked my sister.

"O K" said mum.