Monday and the household is back to working normal that means a muesli breakfast for me and an early retreat to the Shed. Of course Hook, the new parrot had to come to oversee me writing letters.
I spend the morning writing letters and taking a call from a friend who owned up to be being responsible for the arrival of Hook. My next task is collecting up the families dry cleaning and taking a drive to the local Sainsbury’s that hosts the cleaners to book the garments in. Cost an arm and a leg, I will not be doing that again in the near future. I return home, posting letters on the way and down a bowl of chicken soup before deciding where to put more potted plants around the garden. As I wonder around looking for suitable spaces I notice some more of the plants are flowering or doing interesting things or looking just plain beautiful.
Poppies in the making 
Strange, no idea what this is 
Grandfathers Iris blooming.
First Peony 
Miniature Mock Orange 
Wisteria.
I return to the Shed and frame the post card that my friend sent me and add it to the art collection on the Shed walls.
Its time for me to close up the Shed and to go and train. Today is time to get back on track and to start the serious stuff. So today it will be an hour on the rower at a reasonable resistance level.
Metres 
Time and calories
I change and get ready for tea and then I move the car off the drive so that the Tesco delivery driver can do their work easily enough. Right on queue she arrives and we do the delivery shuffle with the trays and send the driver on her way. With everything away its time to eat and write the blog. Tonight I shall try to read more of Shuggie Bain and try to avoid becoming morbidly depressed by it.
