Wednesday

 Morning, everyone!  What a good night's sleep I have had.  I woke once overnight, my bladder not being what it was, but managed to get straight off again and it was light before I came to again.  I feel so, so much better this morning!  And, just to add to it, we have sun this morning.  Sun and a good frost that makes everything look brighter.

I got loads achieved yesterday.  It started off with a food shop in M&S and Aldi, quite a big one (for me) after using up Christmas leftovers, etc.  Goodness, aren't the basics expensive nowadays.  I suppose we will get used to it in time but even so . . .

Once home and with everything sorted out and put away, I had breakfast, sat down and promptly dropped off for a short time.  When I came to, I went up and started in on the tip that is the blue room.  Several hours and two mini accidents later (bumped head and bruised knuckle), all was done.  The Christmas things are now away neatly and logically, there's both shelf and hanging space for visitors to put their stuff and both beds are made up.  Mind you, I hadn't quite realised how manky some of the pillows are so I have ordered some new ones from Amazon which should arrive before the weekend.  Did you know that pillows costing over £100 each - EACH - was even a thing?  No, I didn't, I went for middle range ones and am hoping they will be OK.

I've just realised the one thing I didn't do was sort out the bedding.  Not to worry, it can go on the list.  When I do get round to it, I also need to think about 'upgrading' some of it.  It's really the blue room - one bed has a single duvet and the other has a double duvet - Beth and I both prefer doubles, me since divorce days when I took most of the bedding with me and that included the double duvet which I used on my single bed.  I'm thinking I will get another double for the other bed, keep the single in case and either get new covers for both or use the plain white ones I pretty much always use.   But that's all for the future and needs thinking about and looking around first.

Then I went into my room and gave my clothes a proper sort out, discarding any I haven't worn.  Inevitably, this included some of the clothes that were Mum's and it was all a bit emotional at times, but it had to be done so I'm glad I did it.  There's now several black bags to take to the Sally Army drop off point.

That took pretty much all day but needed doing and it's a relief to have done it.

Today I'm taking it easier.  There's a few more things on the list but they depend on other people doing something first so that's OK.  My bedroom still needs attention and the kitchen drawers could do with a bit of a sort out but, generally, things are good.  I have personal training around midday so I think I will stay in PJs until I need to change into my gym wear.  I might then go on to the-shop-that-used-to-be-Wyvale (I can never remember what it is called now) as I need to buy a few gifts and that's a good place to find 'pretty' things.  That's about it really - the rest is the usual bits and bobs things that happen all the time.

I'm so glad Cherie and Diane are both feeling so much better now - Rachel, I hope you are improving too.   Love to everyone - have a good day and keep safe.  xx