DVT DAY 69

A late start moved sluggishly to a bacon sandwich and coffee. A meandering morning of odd moments like opening the post, opening the greenhouse and clearing things away. Very domestic. By mid-day my partner and eldest daughter are ready to go for their walk and deliver her brother’s birthday card so I have an opportunity to get into the office and install the video editing suite on the main system. I make a test recording and then settle down to record my work commitment. I like the excitement of playing with new technology even though it has its frustrating moments. You know the ones I mean, you push a button and everything disappears, which then provokes a stream of cathartic expletives. I had several of those but ended up with a front card, middle and end card, and that was enough excitement for me.

Time for a walk. Garden to garden for an hour plus during which my Fitbit gave me the 10,000 step celebration. As usual I end my walk siting on the garden swing seat, this time refreshing myself with an orange ice cream lolly. Such decadence. Before closing up the garden for the day I put hard wood tiles under the front end of the green house to stop the front of it sinking into the lawn any further.

Back in the house I change and watch the first half of a German football match played with out a crowd. Very weird and strange to hear every kick of ball. It was like watching kids on the local park playing without their overzealous parents jumping around and abusing the referee. I could not be bothered with the second half. Dinner time and the bizarre prospect of the euro vision non song show that was due to drag on till 10 0’clock.  Thirty second snippets of 42 songs and mini platitudes about corona virus. I think not so I wrote the blog and hope that the multi channels of “stuff” has something worth watching. It is the evenings that are the worse. However today brought out the blooming of my grandfather’s other iris type, the purple one, scented as exquisitely as the blue one. That makes it worthwhile.

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