Travelling On

teapot2

Naughty mouse 🐭.  Enjoy your in-garden reading time.

rtandon27

Arrrrgh - lost posts are so frustrating!  In the past I've regularly lost them on the commute, trying to use the mobile to post!

ETA - it's gorgeous out today, I've been tackling (online) paperwork out here since 8:30 - nothing better than hearing the birdies chirping while typing away on the keyboard!

greent

Gorgeous day here and I've finished a book that I started yesterday - have another ready to start later. Now, though, it's time for me to get some more stuff in the garden sorted - getting a bit warm but that's my own fault for having a leisurely start to the day!😁

Enjoy your book in the sun 🌞/ shade 😎 x

Karmacat

Hello lovely ones I think we're nearly all having good weather today (though teapot has had quite a few haars recently).  I haven't actually sat out much yet, though I've been downloading newspaper articles (an accident and a bankruptcy) and I realised that there were a lot of weeds, including some with seeds about to mature **shrieks** but its really, really hot once you're doing any work at all.  Plus a few summer "snowdrops" have been stopped from propagating, hooray.  Got to make sure the cuttings etc are watered, and the green bin is filled and put out, but otherwise, since it's a holiday, I might faff about with the newspaper archive again   

Karmacat

Slow start today because I spent an hour on the phone to my sister and it's gorgeous weather still, so I'm not actually going to *work* outside till much later on.

Good news on the healthy walks - they're restarting this week!  You have to wear a mask (face covering?) new online one-off registration, which I've done, and hurray, the clipboard you used to have to sign has gone the way of the dodo, because, y'know, pandemic.  20 people, first come first served.  They were never as big as that anyway, but I'm going to arrive with 10 mins spare - part of my campaign to make more local contacts.  

Tasks today?  Hmm, I've been resting on my laurels in relation to cleaning the skirting boards (ie I've never done it, after living here 10 years) and the smaller perennial weeds that are actually setting seed right now (I'd been concentrating on the brambles for so long, I forgot about those!).  So, bit of cleaning, tidying all the newspaper downloads, get ready to leap off first thing tomorrow.  Just found out about the thing of NHS data and an opt out that's ending on 23rd June Did you know the NHS is about to share your records? | Daily Mail Online not that I trust the Daily Mail either, but it makes some good points, and if the deadline is so close, I'm going to have to have a think about that.

rtandon27

I love that they've done away with the clipboard & pen!  I can remember before C-19 getting a funny look when I would bring my own pen out to sign documents or sign-up/in sheets!  My paranoid habits seem almost normal now 🤣🤣🤣

Karmacat

Ha, you too, RT!  I never brought a pen, but yes, well before the pandemic, I brought hand sanitizer - congregating with people who don't feel the need for hand sanitiser, not comfy.  Especially given my level of health at the time: the first time I went on one of those walks (on the flat, 30 minutes) I was puffed, and shattered for the rest of the day, not kidding.  Today, its a nice easy wake up call, which is fantastic progress.

People are still going to do what they do, though - I was outside chatting to my neighbour, and the timing was getting dodgy - 15 minutes in the "danger" four hours with no sun lotion on, and then schoolday end - children from two schools walk down this road, I was getting very twitchy at hopping out of the way all the time, so I came inside, with apologies.  Just in time for another neighbour to pop over (lot of people like talking on the street here, which is nice in lots of ways) and now, over an hour later, they're still out there  with no sun lotion. My lotion is factor 50, recommended by a doctor.  

Going to think about plans for the month ... I'll even think about quarterly plans from July, but we'll see.

Hope everyone's having a lovely afternoon  

rtandon27

ooooo - I envy you the neighbourhood chats KC!  Where we are, the closest neighbours have been sheep for 5 years & this year a herd jersey cows & their calves!  I'm hoping that when we move, we'll be blessed with some good chatty (but not nosey) neighbours - LOL - am I wishing for to much?

Karmacat

You might be okay, RT I envy you the cows and sheep, but I can understand that it's quite limiting.  Actually, last week, my sister and I were walking home from the little field the local school runs as a mini-farm, and we could hear frantic moo-ing  the cows (all four of them!) were being let out of the mini-barn onto the grass!  Nosy neighbours, otoh, are a real pain - the woman at the back of me makes no bones about staring into my garden, and boasts that she used to be able to see the side gate!  But she really marked her card with me when she leant too far over the boundary and cut my laurel to below head height - she's shattered my privacy in the garden for the whole of this summer.  

Your move is getting close!  Very exciting, do you have a date yet?

Karmacat

Morning!  I went on a Council Healthy Walks event!  Limited to 20, and there were 6 of us there, including one lady I talked to who only just moved here last year.  I also realised why it's so tiring (I was exhausted yesterday, after a 40 minute pootle) - it's because it's so slow!  Which is good for me, but sort of weird.  It has to be that slow, there are people with crutches who go, fairly often.  But that means that while I'm keeping on going to this one, I'm also going to go to the Level 2 once a month, which is an hour and a bit more my normal pace.


June Plan
1 double glazing renewal cleaning and tidying has partly been about getting 2 rooms in a fit state for glazing people to come in.  I'm happy enough with how things are to start checking out who's available and how conscious they are of minimising materials used and recycling whatever they can.  I want the ones with "venetian blinds" inside the glazing, to save on the number of surfaces I haven't cleaned.  And I'd like a fitted fly screens like the others I have.  
2 holiday in England, a couple of hours drive away, so there *shouldn't* be any problems with it.  Self catering, self contained, 2 bathrooms etc; I'm getting my stuff together - we're not going to be eating out, so that includes later meals, as well as breakfasts.  Plus, I need new sandals, I don't have any right now, online purchasing ahoy.  Down payment money is paid out already, there's more to come.
3 gardening argh, shallow rooted perennials *have* to be dug out, weeding is necessary.  All the mint plants survived, they were looking dodgy.  Mint sauce, rather than mint tea, is what I'm aiming for   Harvesting needs to be included - perennial onions, oregano, winter savory, lemon balm and rhubarb are really getting into their stride!
4 cleaning oh dear, this has become it's own topic.  The skirting boards are still disgusting.
5 genealogy work  I'm finding some quirks that *don't* belong to our families - its just as important to rule people out as to rule people in  

Today: buy the sandals, yes, I can do that.  Weeding this evening, I think, when the heat has died down a bit.  Repotting and feeding the bay cutting from the National Trust that's more or less stood still for the past 2 years would be a good thing.  Always stuff to do