Cauterising the nerves

After a hit and miss, go, no go, how can everyone be so selfish when it's my trip week everything is all on again. 

I hear you ask, “What is a ‘Bummel’?”

A ‘Bummel’ should be described as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started.  Sometimes it is through busy streets, and sometimes through the fields and lanes; sometimes we can be spared for a few hours, and sometimes for a few days.  But long or short, but here or there, our thoughts are ever on the running of the sand.  We nod and smile to many as we pass; with some we stop and talk awhile; and with a few we walk a little way.  We have been much interested, and often a little tired.  But on the whole we have had a pleasant time, and are sorry when ’tis over.

Jerome K. Jerome, 1900