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savingholmes

Glad the visit went well.

Hope you recover quickly from the fall and bite.

KajiKita

Thanks @savingholmes 😊 Managed to walk around and kneel in the garden this afternoon, so at least I am functional 😊

Been a strange day. 

Had a nice chilled start reading novel and a late breakfast followed by a loooong call with the chairman of the Parish Council who wants to resign, just six months after starting the role … <sigh> He was pushing me quite hard to step up to the role from my position as vice chair but I am steadfastly refusing. He reckons that it has been done incorrectly in the past and the workload should sit a lot less on the Chair - well, if that’s the case he could stay on, couldn’t he …? 🤷‍♀️ The clerk is struggling with the most basic of IT skills and when I was looking at the new laptop bought then Clerk yesterday I can see that part of the issue is that the software seems not to be working properly … How we unpick this I have no idea …. The AGM is a week tomorrow, with FiL’s funeral 2 days later and the Chair was planning on standing down at the AGM and handing it all to me …. Argh ….

Then spent a long time potting on and pricking out all the contents of the conservatory. All are now looking happy and comfortable and none of them, I think, have been starved before I got to them (apart from possibly the Nicotiana, just a bit), which is huge progress compared to my last two gardening seasons. Still haven’t got my runner beans sown yet, but there is still time I think. 

Then spent a solid hour collating and drafting FiL’s eulogy. That was quite hard. Not so much because I was writing about him, but it slam dunked me into memories of delivering my Uncle’s eulogy and the eulogy my cousin delivered at my aunt’s funeral, which really wasn’t that long ago …. Anyway, I have made a solid start on it and I hope Mr KK will review it tonight for me.

After lunch I started feeling really sleepy. So I admitted defeat and went to bed for a little. Fell straight into a 30 minute sleep and woke with my headache gone, so perhaps I needed it. 

Then got outside and did thorough and persistent Battle with the weeds in the veggie patch. 

It is official. 

I absolutely hate field bind weed …. 

The long stringy version, if you are careful, you can pull quite a section of root with it, but field bindweed has loads of multiple stems, lies flat to the ground so is hard to ‘get under’ for purchase and has a tendency to snap off just below the ground so regrows really quickly. Grrrr! 🙄 Still my garlic and shallots look happier and one dry evening this week I will get out and top dress the bed with something to feed them all 😊

Watered the lettuce in the greenhouse - need to harvest some of that later for salad lunches this week. Also left two full cans in there so I am ready to go with watering in the mornings if anything starts to look dry. It’s now getting to the time of year when I will start opening the door every morning.

Didn’t get the bathroom cleaned, but I’m sorry, I don’t care! 😉

Need to do my financial updates, have a shower and prep all my food for tomorrow. Then I can chill 😎 

KK 

Brie

Your busy days quite wear me out!!  

PennysIntoPounds

Blimey well done getting all that done, glad you managed to fit in a power nap too!
How annoying of the Chair, do you want to stay as Vice? You're under no obligation to be given extra stress and your FiLs funeral is an understandable opportunity to get your standing down done first!
That's great you've made a solid inroad on the eulogy. That sort of thing is knackering in every single way so make sure to give yourself permission to be extra kind to yourself until after it's done

KajiKita

Brie said:

Your busy days quite wear me out!!  

Ummm … I had a kip in the middle of this! I’d better not share a typical work day then! 😂😂😂

PennysIntoPounds said:

Blimey well done getting all that done, glad you managed to fit in a power nap too!
How annoying of the Chair, do you want to stay as Vice? You're under no obligation to be given extra stress and your FiLs funeral is an understandable opportunity to get your standing down done first!
That's great you've made a solid inroad on the eulogy. That sort of thing is knackering in every single way so make sure to give yourself permission to be extra kind to yourself until after it's done

Honestly, I don’t. But, the situation is so unstable atm I don’t feel able to step away. However, I will NOT take on any more ….

I will. I am thinking about booking a lunch with a friend next Saturday and how I can use the Friday after the funeral to ‘feed’ me, especially as Mr KK is going away to a militaria sale with his best man that Friday / weekend so I only have myself to please. 

KK

beanielou

Absolutly do not take on the chair.  Way more trouble than it's worth~~unless of course you really want to!

KajiKita

beanielou said:

Absolutly do not take on the chair.  Way more trouble than it's worth~~unless of course you really want to!

No, not really. Tbh, I thought the Parish Council would be more interesting than it is ….

I have made a decision …
Months and months and months (maybe even years ago) I started knitting a honeycomb effect lap blanket (a riff on a cot blanket) for my mother to complement the one I have already knitted for my dad. These were intended as Christmas presents. However, I went wrong early on in the pattern for my mum’s blanket and it just got too complicated and messy trying to keep track of the mistake and I abandoned it … This evening I am casting on again with a fresh ball of wool completely from scratch. I will set the pattern correctly(!) and when I need to frog the previous foot or so of messed up blanket and wash the yarn to get it to relax and reuse it. 

Feels good to have started this. This evening I have also dug out my runner and climbing french bean seeds. Mr KK corrected one or two details in the draft eulogy and will show it to his mum later in the week.

KK

redofromstart

My beans got attacked by a blasted slug over night, most annoying. Still time to plant some more though. The bindweed sounds most annoying. Much sympathy. 

Just a scratch and a slight bruise from the carelessly handled pick axe, thank you for asking. 

LadyWithAPlan

KajiKita said:

beanielou said:

KajiKita said:

No win on the PBs … 😉🤷‍♀️
Guess I will have to go to work again today then 😉

KK

How very unfair. 

I know, positively rude! How very dare they!! 😂😂😂😂
… 
Mr KK was saying over dinner that he feels skint with all the time off he’s had to take off recently to help his mum. I told him he had provisional orders all over the country with MSE cat owners wanting catios - I ‘drew some pen portraits’ of you all for him and it made him laugh - so thank you for cheering him up 😊❤️

KK

Now I really want to see those pen portraits of us all - the mind boggles what your pen thinks we look like  

(I fear we may end up looking like a grown up version of the 7 dwarves ) 

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

My beans got attacked by a blasted slug over night, most annoying. Still time to plant some more though. The bindweed sounds most annoying. Much sympathy. 

Just a scratch and a slight bruise from the carelessly handled pick axe, thank you for asking. 

Ugh …. Sympathies. I’m a bit obsessed with slugs and won’t plant out my ‘babies’ unless I have protection for them! We can start a comparison between us now on a ‘race’ to harvest 😉

LadyWithAPlan said:

Now I really want to see those pen portraits of us all - the mind boggles what your pen thinks we look like  

(I fear we may end up looking like a grown up version of the 7 dwarves ) 

Actually they were quite affectionate… 😊😉

KK