Tuesday and I am awakened y the doorbell at 7:30. I get dressed quickly adn find my partner has taken delivery of a large cardboard container. I set about the package, and it reveals a hamper. Itis a present from my sister. I excitedly open up the hamper and unwrap the numerous inner parcels. It is a treasure trove of culinary delights. The family are going to dine richly over the coming days. A super start to the day, which I follow up with coffee and a dish of muesli. I start to draft the blog and then move on into the day.
After the excitement of the hamper, I go to the Shed and tinker with my laptop camera. I try out some of the applications and end up making a video file. Its lunchtime before finish recording and I am getting peckish. I am tempted to raid the hamper, but I resist and go for my favourite bacon and lentil soup. I spend some time trying to get my EE phone app working and eventually have to reinstall it but eventually I get there. The window cleaner comes and goes. Not impressed with the quality-of-service and will have a think about alternatives. A friend messages me to tell me she has been successful in an online auction and with appropriate pride tells me how she succeeded by going the extra two pence in the dyeing seconds of the auction. She clearly is a formidable bidder. It’s a while since I ventured onto ebay, but I do recall the pleasure of what felt like a victory when winning a pair of Chinese archer’s thumb rings. I pop across to the post office to send my most recent letters and return home. The TV is on and I get engrossed in the Labour Party Conference. Keir Starmer is delivering his keynote speech and I have to say he does it well. He has some good ideas, all he has to do now is win an election.
I get off the sofa and go into the garden to fill the bird feeders, fill the squirrel feeder and replenish the hedgehog’s dish. In a burst of unexpected energy I get all the garden furniture covers out and, in the drizzle, put the garden furniture to bed for the winter. I can’t see me sitting around in the garden in the coming weeks as the temperature is dropping. So my garden is now in winter mode, perhaps a tad early but it feels right for this year. Perersly as I sit and update the draft of the blog the sun comes out.
As it is Tuesday, I put the recycling bins out and then retreat to the sofa and check my social media. I get a message from a friend that is disturbing, and I do not get messages from others, that is also disturbing but I dare say all will become clear in due course. I continue to draft the blog as the evening beckons. For me tonight is one for a relaxing bath and a bit of a read. I think my cold is just beginning to lift, apart from the odd sneezing fit so I am hoping for a good night’s sleep. Meds and bed.
