Thursday, 02-02-23

 Good morning, everyone.  Yesterday was a day of two halves - sunny and then cloudy, gentle and then busy!  

Thank you for your comments yesterday.  For anyone interested, here's the link to the NHS site and the section about the Couch to 5K programme.
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-exercises/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/
It's a nine week program and I think it is three session a week with at least one day between sessions.  Weeks five and six are transition weeks making the leap between short bursts of running and walking and longer spells of running.  I suspect that may be the sticking point but - well, we will see.  I'm planning to start in March when the mornings are lighter and I can do it when there's not so many people around.  :-)

Yesterday morning, I really blitzed the washing.  There's a bit more to do today because I want to change my sheets: that's usually a Friday job but I really don't want to fuss about with sheets, etc, tomorrow and, equally, I don't want to leave it all until Monday.  There's a few other little bits and bobs that can also be washed, dried and ironed today too.

It was so nice and sunny yesterday morning and there was such a good breeze blowing that I tried drying two of my loads of washing outside and, cheers, it worked. They didn't get completely dried but enough to bring in, iron and hang to air, just like Mum used to do when I was little, when she draping the freshly ironed clothes on a couple of clothes horses and putting them in front of the fire to air, turning the clothes horses round after a while.  Then she would sort all the clothes into piles and we had to take them up and put them away. 
In between washing days, she made a tent for us, turning a clothes horse on its side and draping an old blanket over it.  Sometimes we would be allowed to have lunch in our tent instead of round the table as usual which was a huge treat and, very occasionally, we could move the tent outside.
Happy memories.

Anyway, I got the washing done and most of the ironing too.  There's just a few bits left to do today.

Later on, I went to Lindsey's for my personal training session, came home, freshened up and then it was off to the Governors' Meeting at school.  It was good, very interesting, very useful (I hope) and didn't go on too long.

I slept like a log last night, for which I am thankful.

Today starts busy.  I shall strip and remake the bed, as mentioned above, and get the washing on before the online SET class which is the Shimmy Snippet for today.  After that, it is a quick change and then I'm over to Chris' for our Thursday coffee and chat.

After that it is a case of finishing off the washing, getting everything ready for packing tomorrow and making sure the house is cleaner friendly, also for tomorrow, as I really don't want to be faffing around with stuff tomorrow.

So all very straightforward, enjoyable and easy.  Have a lovely day yourself.  xx