Friday arrives and finds me having slept little in the heat. I get up for breakfast and meds as my partner goes to the gym. During the morning I ge a message confirming my car service booking but I also get the proposed cost, a whopping £527 My immediate response was “Fuck off”. I ring the franchise and tell them to shove their service, I’m not paying £500 to have an oil filter changed and new oil plus a visual inspection on a 74 plate car with 2400 miles on the clock. Its a liberty and typical of this trader. I’ve had experience of them before when they tried to charge £300 for a stuck seat belt and one they damaged at an MOT. I fixed the problems with a can of WD40 and the car passed its MOT at our local garage. Sandicliffe in Loughborough are just opportunist fly boys whose service centre cannot be trusted. So I shall be booking my car in with my regular local garage.
When my partner returned from the gym we went to the local garden centre for a drink and something to eat. With my lunch done we go and seek out some square planters to establish the Eacheana (Coneflowers) for the summer and get ready to plant out bigger plants in the Spring of next year. We also pick up more compost. Once home I hide from the sun and watch some of the Wimbledon tennis.
The day progresses until the evening when the family eat and wait for todays world cup quarter final between Spain and Belgium at 8 o’clock. Spain win 2-1and with that I take my meds and go to bed. Its still very warm and in the small hours I decamp to the spare room and discover that I am most comfortable wrapped in a cotton kimono. I finally manage to sleep.
Saturday finds me emerging sleepily and finding that there is already rugby on the TV, which I watch on my phone. I get up for breakfast and watch rugby, hiding from the intense heat. The patio tiles that I have ordered to use as pot stands arrive. I spend some time barrowing the compost that was bought yesterday to the back garden and setting things up to do some potting up later in the day. The lily’s have burst into flower and look magnificent.
The afternoon is spent potting up plants and relocating pots onto the patio. Its exhausting activity as is the clearing up and getting everything back in the store. It’s a late tea and then some TV before watching England squeeze past Norway to win a semi final place against Argentina next Wednesday. I take my night meds and go to bed very tired.
