Day 19...

A day of lazing, not feeling compelled to do anything specific for much of the day. Having worked to improve the balcony yesterday it seemed only polite to make use of it this morning - I was up and sitting out there  shortly after 8am, and almost didn't move apart from to the kettle and back a few times until lunch! Warm enough for shorts and a vest top, it was blissful sitting there with my book, the ipad and a steady supply of tea, and just so rare to feel I can justify the time to do that, too - usually I would feel that there were things I should be doing, or that I ought not to just waste the time sitting around doing - essentially - nothing. Of course ultimately it's NOT nothing though is it - it's relaxing, recharging, taking time to think, to just be. Maybe we should allow ourselves to do that more often?

Lunch was jacket potatoes with cheese and home made coleslaw - made using one of a bag of yellow-stickered beetroot I got last week, quarter of a red cabbage, a red onion from a bag bought on the Aldi super 6 a few weeks ago, and a carrot. A good dollop of mayo stirred in and it tastes miles better than anything you'd buy in the shops, and for a fraction of the cost. It made a whole big plastic tub full as well - which will last in the fridge for several days so we will be having dollops of that on all sorts of things for a little while - yum!

A brief walk to the shop late afternoon for a joint of meat for tomorrow's lunch- a large chunk of pork shoulder which I'll slow-roast almost into pulled pork. That was my productive thing for the day, and also our exercise. Constructive was continuing the bits and pieces on the balcony - re-woodstaining the two tables and the wooden fence slats on the gate a bright, cheerful blue, and making a start on wire-brushing the metal section of fence on the opposite side ready for painting, which might well happen tomorrow along with the second coats of the blue. And the Just for me thing - that was those glorious hours this morning, just sitting, enjoying the sunshine.

Robyn