Tuesday

 Morning, everyone; how are you today?  The rough weather has landed - well, semi-rough - with a stiff breeze and plenty of rain.  According to the Beeb, we are not expected to have much rain through the day but it will land again overnight.

At first, yesterday felt like a nothing sort of day although I did get that cupboard under the sink sorted out.  I couldn't believe how much air freshener I had tucked away!  Not to mention just-about-empty bottles of this, that and the other.  And duplicates - so many!  Anyway, they are now sorted, all the spares are in the shed, neatly on shelves, and now I know what I have.  Now there is room to put the washing up liquid and the daily spray sanitiser away and out of sight.  My kitchen is starting to look more minimalistic.  Just more, not entirely!  I like a few things out.

Then, just as I was looking at my list and thinking that I didn't really feel like doing any of the things listed, along came a distraction.  My ordered rebounder arrived and working out how to set it up and having a preliminary bounce plus finding a YouTube channel with some relevant and achievable workouts cheered me up no and and took a reasonable chunk of time.

In the evening I produced more hexagons!

So it wasn't a nothing day after all.  It was good.

Today has started well with overnight washing drying in the tumble dryer, one load done and on the rack and another load in and doing.  I've done the washing Beth brought round so will be ironing that later on and have started on my own which I should get finished today although I may have to dodge the raindrops to get the other drying rack in from the shed.  Sometimes I am reminded very strongly of my childhood.  No tumble dryers in those days, of course, so if the weather was too bad for line drying, it all had to go on clothes horses and in winter they went in front of the fire (open with a fire guard), blocking the warmth from the rest of the room.

When the clothes had dried, Mum would let us turn the clothes horses sideways and give us a couple of old blankets to make a tent.  If we had been VERY good while she was so busy, we were allowed to have tea in our tent.  What a treat that was!  Before bedtime, we would have to tidy everything up so that Mum could iron and then air everything in front of the dying fire.

We had one like this - this was the one that was our tent.

And one quite like this except that it had three leaves, not four, I think.  It was amazing how much washing/ironing it held.

(both photos found on Google Images)

Lovely memories but I'm glad it's different nowadays.

I have my weekly chat with Dad this afternoon, courtesy of Zoom.  He seems well, no side effects from the vaccine.  Good news from Beth - she may be getting hers soon, possibly early next month, because of her job.  That would be another weight off my mind.  The rest of us will just have to wait our turn, I expect.

I'd better go.  The second lot of washing must have finished and needs getting out.
Have a super day, whatever you have planned.  I hope the storm isn't too bad where you are - be safe and warm.  And positive, always as positive as ever you can manage.  xx