The week has flown by! Work is busy so a lot of time has been spent at my desk, but I have grabbed a few moments for myself too.
I thought I'd share my week in the form of a photo a day, a random shot picked from my camera roll.
On Saturday we started the day by deciding to just get on and cut Andy's hair. We'd been talking about it for ages, and early Saturday morning proved to be the moment that Andy had had enough of his longer hair with the bits that had started to curl.
It took me almost an hour of faffing but I think I did a pretty good job, Andy was pleased, and now I think I may have a job for life!
I did take before and after photos but I was made to promise that they would never find their way onto the internet.
The following day we embarked on a typical Sunday activity - gardening, which for us came in the form of trimming the conifer hedge. We try to trim it every other year but last year we didn't get time, so this year we had a bit of a challenge on our hands. Some branches were too big for the loppers, so out came the big guns. Andy is well versed in chainsaw work, I had the job of operating the loader.
On Bank Holiday Monday we continued with the conifers, we have to do this piecemeal around Andy loading wheat and irrigating. I was back in the driving seat. With the cage on the front of the loader I would lift Andy up high enough to trim the trees, then I'd lower him down, empty the bucket of trimmings, and we'd move onto the next section. We still need to tidy the sides of the conifers but the top is done, and it looks much neater.
Tuesday and after a busy day at my desk I spent the early evening reading a few chapters of this book. I don't often like short stories but this seems to fit well with my limited attention span at the moment. I'm rather enjoying it, and read it with the voice of Tom Hanks my head.
Wednesday was rather uneventful, just lots of work and making cups of tea. I took this photo at lunchtime, sitting on my patio. My coffee table is a pile of bricks that will soon become part of our patio transformation. Now that our builder is back at work the ugly block of concrete will have a brick wall built around the edge, and have paving slabs over the top. Then I'll get rid of the weeds in the border and finally plant something pretty!
Friday. This is one of many photos I've taken of water droplets on my sweet peas. The green is so lush and the droplets look like jewels! One of my favourite daily tasks is watering the greenhouse. I do it first thing every morning and I love seeing what's grown and shot up overnight. It's getting rather full in there as a lot of my seedlings have now been moved to larger troughs, and will only continue to take up space as they grow, it's going to get jungle like in there. I wonder if I'll attract any of the local monkeys*
*we don't have local monkeys
The only other thing I've done this week is go to a supermarket. I felt it was time for me to brave the world once again, I hadn't left the farm, other than to go on rural walks, since March 23rd. I didn't need many provisions so I wasn't out for long but it was nice to go out and see that the world is still there.
I wondered if woollen winter gloves would really be any use when I saw the woman in front of me wearing them, but whatever makes you comfortable I suppose.
I wondered if the two ladies having a chat in the aisles really needed to chat there and then. I was waiting in my denoted bay, trying to decide how long to wait before saying something, when the person behind me, who had no intention of waiting, used some choice words to move them along.
I wondered if the lady in the bread aisle needed to pick up, squeeze, and inspect five loaves of bread before choosing the one she was going to take home (aren't you supposed to only touch the things you intend to buy? My friend used this rule as her reason for buying two Easter eggs, she couldn't put the first one back because she'd touched it :) any excuse for extra cocoa!).
I wondered if it was really necessary for the lady on the checkout to comment on my every purchase - this, obviously, has nothing to do with social distancing, but it really irritates me. Yes I am lucky to get flour, yes I do like those (that's why I'm buying them), yes I'm going to mash them, yes they are delicious at this time of year... Would this annoy you or am I just being unsociable?
Anyway, I survived and felt a little better for having been out into the world once again. I need to go to a Post Office at some point but can't decide which one will have the easiest system based on it's location and layout... I'll ponder it and then plot my next foray into civilisation.
I hope you're all well. I'll be popping by your blogs and catching up soon, I haven't visited some of you in a while, work has been busy which means I like to get away from my screen of an evening.
Have a good weekend, enjoy the sunshine!
xx
