Good morning! The day started off fairly fine but it's clouding over now so - another typical old-fashioned Summer day, I guess. We had some fairly gusty bouts of wind yesterday but nothing too challenging, thankfully.
SW was nice. More and more people are returning now and more are staying for the session too. Yesterday, Jen showed me how to do the booking in and payment thing (bit complicated but I'll get there) so now I can cover either that or the weighing, freeing Jen up to talk to the new members when they come.
Then it was on to my last shorter Friday session with Lindsey. Next week we're back to an hour on Wednesdays which I am glad about. Because I don't have the nerve to turn up at SW in my lycra leggings (no rude comments, thank you!), I take my exercise stuff with me and change at Lindsey's before we start. Nice of her to let me do it but it isn't ideal really.
I spent the rest of the day at home, doing housework, etc, before popping round to Morrisons for a few bits I needed that evening and didn't have. I've got a delivery coming today so it really was a small shop. All went well until checkout when I realised that great long queues were forming at both forms of checkout. There were very few people on checkout too, maybe because of the pingdemic as Morrisons is usually very good at opening another checkout. The queue went right from front to back of the shop and then round the corner which was boring, but people were very good and patient. Let's face it, getting moody wouldn't make any difference and I guess the Brits are good at queueing!
As it rained, I didn't go to the allotment.
Today there's nothing down in the diary until the Morrisons delivery between four and five this afternoon and the house is pretty clean after the cleaners worked their magic yesterday so I will have an unplanned day apart from allotment where the grass needs a haircut.
One exciting thing (exciting in my world anyway) is that I've just looked and the dwarf French beans I sowed last weekend in the pot beside my French window which doubles as the back door and a couple are breaking through the soil. Something else to nurture. That makes me happy.
Wishing you all as good a day as I hope to have. Stay safe, well and contented. xx
Hope your day goes well and the weather behaves - it's certainly mixed this summer
ReplyDeleteVery mixed all year really. The new normal, to coin a phrase. xx
DeleteThis unsettled weather might not be good for us but it certainly does the plants a favour. good luck with the beans
ReplyDeleteIt's nice not to have to water so much, isn't it I just would like a bit more warm sunshine to ripen the tomatoes now. Never satisfied, am I? :-)
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I think French beans are my new favourite bean, They are so tender and tasty
ReplyDeletePicked and eaten within a few hours, they are so different to the ones you buy in the shops aren't they. So lovely. xx
DeleteCongratulations on your loss this week. I only managed to lose a pound but it's a start!
ReplyDeleteThe pingdemic is having quite an umissable effect everywhere. Our local post is affected with the majority of the postmen having to isolate so temporary staff have been employed and post is turning up at all hours and even on Sundays.
Hope you have a lovely weekend xx
It's great. Really well done. They all add up.
DeleteRemember . . .
Hello! Do you know me?
If you don't, you should. I'm a pound of fat.
And I am the happiest pound of fat that you would ever want to meet.
Want to know why?
It's because no one ever wants to lose me.
I'm only one pound, just a pound!
Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds, or fifteen pounds, but never only one.
So I just stick around and happily keep you fat.
Then I add to myself, ever so slyly, so that you never seem to notice it.
That is until I've grown to ten, twenty, thirty or even more pounds in weight.
Yes, it's fun being only one pound of fat, left to do as I please.
So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying, "Oh, I only lost one pound."
(As if that were such a terrible thing)
For you see, if you do this, you'll encourage others to keep me around because they'll think I'm not worth losing.
And, I love being around you-your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you.
After all, I'm only one pound of fat!!! _
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Thanks Joy xx
DeleteCertainly mixed weather here, can't seem to make up its mind what to do. I'm sure you look just fine in your lycra leggings!! xx
ReplyDeleteHmmmm - just as well you can't see me really!! :-)
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You're always so busy I have watched the Olympics to day and some gentle weeding of the new flower bed and tidied round and washed some dishes. We're missing our dish washer and that's all.. but I have enjoyed myself as I m sure you have. Well done helping at SW I did that once but here they're all olds members and have been helping for years.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult when there are established helpers - one wants to help but not to tread on any toes. I just looked out for an opportunity to help wherever (I like to help out) and my friend was doing the weighing so I sat beside her and watched. One night she wasn't there so I did it and it just went from there really.
DeleteI know I would miss my dishwasher. Are you going to get one?
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Yea on the french beans coming up and on the weight loss as well.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
lol I do get ridiculously excited, don't I, but nature is wonderful and each sprouting seed is a miracle, I think.
DeleteAnd thank you.
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How exciting! It's so rewarding to grow food. It must be fantastic to have cleaners. Maybe I will someday, too.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's fantastic. I had cleaners from a genuine need when I was working and when I retired I thought 'why stop?' It's supporting local business and making like easier for me too. I am lucky that I can afford it, I know.
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