Lovely Day! What a waste!
Jun. 8th, 2008 05:04 pmI can't believe it! LJ has just dumped an entire longish post while I was halfway through it. It didn't save it, either. Grrrrrr!
It's been absolutely beautiful today, but I've been too poorly to take advantage of it by going out somewhere or even pottering about in the front garden as I'd planned. I certainly haven't cleaned my deeply filthy car, which I was hoping to do before I take someone out in it tomorrow. Sigh..........
Yesterday we had one of our bull-days when we blitz the house and even though I left the downstairs including the vilely dirty kitchen to John and Charles and just deep-cleaned the bathroom, I found myself taking Far Too Long to do it, and developing muscle problems in my calves and an ache in my back that made me feel as though I'd broken something. The others were finished and doing something else long before I'd finished and eventually Charles kindly came in and finished off for me by steaming and washing the floor.
I'm a little worried because these leg pains and awful backache are something new, but I shall mention them at rehab on Wednesday and see what they have to suggest.
I do hope I feel better tomorrow as I'm going on a Poetry Awayday which I've been looking forward to for weeks. I missed the last one because of my horrible cough!
Another thing I hoped to do today was to cut back all the shrubs by the path in the front garden. They're so overgrown that people keep getting caught by them, like Triffids and if it's been raining the poor postie gets soaked. I must try to do it later this week.
Charles and John kindly treated me to a curry take-way last night and although I thoroughly enjoyed it and it wasn't at all hot or anything, I've been having an unpleasantly sour stomach all day. I can't understand it. It was mild and delicious and beautifully cooked, so I can't see how it could do that unless I've suddenly become sensitive to large quantities of garlic. Morgan certainly is; when he came up for his morning cuddle he shied away and ran off to a safe distance when he smelled my breath. If he could turn any whiter, I'm sure he would have done so.
I did make an attempt to sit in the yard with a book but it was so hot that after a short while I could feel my arms crisping and I knew I wouldn't stay out there long, so felt too idle to delve in the shed looking for the umbrella.
Something else we must do this summer is sort out the shed and chuck out all the stuff we don't use any more, like Charles' bike and the strimmer and various other things. I plan to recycle them by using Don'tdumpthat
http://dontdumpthat.com/
which is similar to Recycle but which seems to have fewer idiots on it and which you don't have to register with Yahoo for.
I feel rather guilty at wasting such a lovely day, but Charles is going to cook the dinner, the house is extra clean, the bathroom is gleaming, and most of the laundry is done, so I've just sat around resting all afternoon, reading P.K.Dick's The Man in the High Castle and I've entered into a rather pleasant idle fugue where I read a few pages, then prop the book on my chest while I have a little think, then go back to the book for a few pages...........and so forth. And Charles has just made some tea.......... With the lovely fresh breeze coming in through my clean open window, rattling my dust-free blinds, it feels rather pleasant to just sit around. I'm sure there's something I should be doing though!
Since I no longer have my plastic greenhouse and since I'm still not sure whether I shall be well enough to use a new one properly, I want to use the shed to start off a few seedlings next spring. I can't really do it indoors, because there are only two proper windowsills in the whole house and one is in the kitchen and used for washing up liquid and similar stuff.
If I'm feeling better next weekend I plan to go to the garden centre and get some plants for my pots out in the yard. It doesn't look too bad out there, because my herbs are doing really well, but I'd like to have some flowers as well. This is virtually the first dry warm weekend we've had, so I've been unable to do it before in case everything died off in a sudden cold snap. Surely it won't be too cold for plants from now on!
Oh I am looking forward to a day writing at Shepherd's Dene with my friends tomorrow!
It's been absolutely beautiful today, but I've been too poorly to take advantage of it by going out somewhere or even pottering about in the front garden as I'd planned. I certainly haven't cleaned my deeply filthy car, which I was hoping to do before I take someone out in it tomorrow. Sigh..........
Yesterday we had one of our bull-days when we blitz the house and even though I left the downstairs including the vilely dirty kitchen to John and Charles and just deep-cleaned the bathroom, I found myself taking Far Too Long to do it, and developing muscle problems in my calves and an ache in my back that made me feel as though I'd broken something. The others were finished and doing something else long before I'd finished and eventually Charles kindly came in and finished off for me by steaming and washing the floor.
I'm a little worried because these leg pains and awful backache are something new, but I shall mention them at rehab on Wednesday and see what they have to suggest.
I do hope I feel better tomorrow as I'm going on a Poetry Awayday which I've been looking forward to for weeks. I missed the last one because of my horrible cough!
Another thing I hoped to do today was to cut back all the shrubs by the path in the front garden. They're so overgrown that people keep getting caught by them, like Triffids and if it's been raining the poor postie gets soaked. I must try to do it later this week.
Charles and John kindly treated me to a curry take-way last night and although I thoroughly enjoyed it and it wasn't at all hot or anything, I've been having an unpleasantly sour stomach all day. I can't understand it. It was mild and delicious and beautifully cooked, so I can't see how it could do that unless I've suddenly become sensitive to large quantities of garlic. Morgan certainly is; when he came up for his morning cuddle he shied away and ran off to a safe distance when he smelled my breath. If he could turn any whiter, I'm sure he would have done so.
I did make an attempt to sit in the yard with a book but it was so hot that after a short while I could feel my arms crisping and I knew I wouldn't stay out there long, so felt too idle to delve in the shed looking for the umbrella.
Something else we must do this summer is sort out the shed and chuck out all the stuff we don't use any more, like Charles' bike and the strimmer and various other things. I plan to recycle them by using Don'tdumpthat
http://dontdumpthat.com/
which is similar to Recycle but which seems to have fewer idiots on it and which you don't have to register with Yahoo for.
I feel rather guilty at wasting such a lovely day, but Charles is going to cook the dinner, the house is extra clean, the bathroom is gleaming, and most of the laundry is done, so I've just sat around resting all afternoon, reading P.K.Dick's The Man in the High Castle and I've entered into a rather pleasant idle fugue where I read a few pages, then prop the book on my chest while I have a little think, then go back to the book for a few pages...........and so forth. And Charles has just made some tea.......... With the lovely fresh breeze coming in through my clean open window, rattling my dust-free blinds, it feels rather pleasant to just sit around. I'm sure there's something I should be doing though!
Since I no longer have my plastic greenhouse and since I'm still not sure whether I shall be well enough to use a new one properly, I want to use the shed to start off a few seedlings next spring. I can't really do it indoors, because there are only two proper windowsills in the whole house and one is in the kitchen and used for washing up liquid and similar stuff.
If I'm feeling better next weekend I plan to go to the garden centre and get some plants for my pots out in the yard. It doesn't look too bad out there, because my herbs are doing really well, but I'd like to have some flowers as well. This is virtually the first dry warm weekend we've had, so I've been unable to do it before in case everything died off in a sudden cold snap. Surely it won't be too cold for plants from now on!
Oh I am looking forward to a day writing at Shepherd's Dene with my friends tomorrow!