Hi! Quick comment on your post (Replies RIP): it was beautifully written. I don’t know if it would help, but some things I do to cope on bad days – I safely trolled the town in my car and found unpopulated spots/learned the school times to avoid kids for walks and music or no I keep my headphones in & sunglasses on. I HATE errand days & in a perfect world only do one per day (NEVER the supermarket omg). Bravo for you guys for accomplishing it all at once & having a system!

Hi! Thanks for reading my post. We don’t have much choice about the
all-in-one-day thing – we live an hour and a half from the nearest big
town. So there’s three hours driving just to go and buy something, so
getting it all done together is the only way that we can afford it, both
in energy levels and in petrol. When we lived closer to civilisation
we’d space things out more, but this is the best way we’ve found to do
things living remote.

My village is very quiet – small population
of maybe 120 at most, so I might pass a couple of cars or a tourist or
two or a few people outside the pub, but apart from that it’s fairly
solitary, and if I really don’t want to meet anyone, I walk out bush
rather than sticking to the roads. I have headphones, Irlen tints that
are fairly dark, and a hat this time of year since it’s summer.