Edited by Gill Burrell, Saturday, 14 June 2025, 15:29
Saturday morning started slowly. 9am I awoke to the sound of the TV quietly playing in the background I said good morning to my husband, who was sitting up in the arm chair with a blanket round him and I asked him if he was feeling ok, and did he have any pain after his operation? He said he had a bit of pain, but he had just taken a pain killer. I made him a cup of coffee and something to eat.
The weather was overcast but slowly starting to brighten up.
My husband and youngest son went to talk together in the next room about my son's music collection. My husband was very interested to listen to it as he had not heard it before. He found this music very calming.
My son played him some music to calm him down, a natural painkiller! While I got myself dressed, then I had a wash. Next I sent a text to our other eldest son to say "good morning". After that my husband went to the newsagents, I was then able to quickly clean up the house, downstairs, staircase, hallway and kitchen floor.
My husband returned and we had a brief chat and I made a phone call.
After the call our youngest was busy sorting through his music collection again. I asked my son if he had fed the cats this morning as he usually likes to do it, but he said neither of them had turned up. It had been raining earlier on, so I expect they had taken shelter somewhere. The garden is full of little dens for them to hide. No doubt they will turn up when they are hungry! Wonder where they? Perhaps they got lost in the wild jungle garden!
There was not much to do today, as most of the shopping was bought yesterday. Now there was a little drizzly rain overhead, and it felt much cooler outdoors than it had previously. It was not quite as cold enough yet for the house heating to be put on, and the oven was still warm in the kitchen, after I had done some baking this morning.
I decided to read my latest book in french. "Les Enfants de la liberte" I also had my english book to read (a trivial book of fiction.), so I read a chapter from each of my books. By then the weather was getting a little bit brighter but still quite damp.
I made a light lunch of salad, boiled eggs, feta cheese, veggie sausages and mini veggie samosas.
In the afternoon we went to the charity shop to donate a few bags. We had done a big spring clean the other day, when we all managed to find a lot of things that we no longer needed. It is surprising how much stuff one accumulates! The charity we chose this time was the dog charity shop. I don't know why? I think It must be that I have seen a lot of sad doggy adverts, about poor little abandoned puppies on TV lately!
Even though it was cool and damp it was pleasant enough for a walk. Husband and myself both enjoyed the walk out to the far side the village to charity shop. He said he appreciated the cool air, which was nice and cool on his eye ( recent cataract operation) We decided to walk the long way home past the Village Hall and through the housing estate, past the green space and the woodlands. Here we heard Wood pigeons, crows and black birds, as well as some smaller birds chaffinches and other finches, there was lots of lovely bird song in the trees and plenty of bird activity in the woods.
However, we decided it was too cold to sit down on the bench for long, and best to keep warm, by moving about. We walked down cemetery lane and through the cemetery, then the footpath past the park, but it was too wet on the grass to walk in the park today, so we took the outer pavement footpath round instead. It was lovely to see the trees and the large green field.
Then we finally arrived back at home, the 2 cats were eagerly awaiting for us on the porch, looking slightly wet and bedraggled. My son was there stroking them quickly, then dashed indoors to get them their food. "I Wonder where they have been hiding?" said my son. They ate their food on the porch then raced indoors to find a place on the arm chairs their favourite spot by the large sunny window, where they proceeded to groom themselves, before falling fast asleep until the early evening!
After the meal the evening was spent listening to music, then watching a film on TV. It was a bit cold, so we put the electric- log- effect fire on to take the chill off. Then it was cocoa and bed with a hot water bottle! Ah the great British summertime!
A Walk Between Showers
Saturday morning started slowly. 9am I awoke to the sound of the TV quietly playing in the background I said good morning to my husband, who was sitting up in the arm chair with a blanket round him and I asked him if he was feeling ok, and did he have any pain after his operation? He said he had a bit of pain, but he had just taken a pain killer. I made him a cup of coffee and something to eat.
The weather was overcast but slowly starting to brighten up.
My husband and youngest son went to talk together in the next room about my son's music collection. My husband was very interested to listen to it as he had not heard it before. He found this music very calming.
My son played him some music to calm him down, a natural painkiller! While I got myself dressed, then I had a wash. Next I sent a text to our other eldest son to say "good morning". After that my husband went to the newsagents, I was then able to quickly clean up the house, downstairs, staircase, hallway and kitchen floor.
My husband returned and we had a brief chat and I made a phone call.
After the call our youngest was busy sorting through his music collection again. I asked my son if he had fed the cats this morning as he usually likes to do it, but he said neither of them had turned up. It had been raining earlier on, so I expect they had taken shelter somewhere. The garden is full of little dens for them to hide. No doubt they will turn up when they are hungry! Wonder where they? Perhaps they got lost in the wild jungle garden!
There was not much to do today, as most of the shopping was bought yesterday. Now there was a little drizzly rain overhead, and it felt much cooler outdoors than it had previously. It was not quite as cold enough yet for the house heating to be put on, and the oven was still warm in the kitchen, after I had done some baking this morning.
I decided to read my latest book in french. "Les Enfants de la liberte" I also had my english book to read (a trivial book of fiction.), so I read a chapter from each of my books. By then the weather was getting a little bit brighter but still quite damp.
I made a light lunch of salad, boiled eggs, feta cheese, veggie sausages and mini veggie samosas.
In the afternoon we went to the charity shop to donate a few bags. We had done a big spring clean the other day, when we all managed to find a lot of things that we no longer needed. It is surprising how much stuff one accumulates! The charity we chose this time was the dog charity shop. I don't know why? I think It must be that I have seen a lot of sad doggy adverts, about poor little abandoned puppies on TV lately!
Even though it was cool and damp it was pleasant enough for a walk. Husband and myself both enjoyed the walk out to the far side the village to charity shop. He said he appreciated the cool air, which was nice and cool on his eye ( recent cataract operation) We decided to walk the long way home past the Village Hall and through the housing estate, past the green space and the woodlands. Here we heard Wood pigeons, crows and black birds, as well as some smaller birds chaffinches and other finches, there was lots of lovely bird song in the trees and plenty of bird activity in the woods.
However, we decided it was too cold to sit down on the bench for long, and best to keep warm, by moving about. We walked down cemetery lane and through the cemetery, then the footpath past the park, but it was too wet on the grass to walk in the park today, so we took the outer pavement footpath round instead. It was lovely to see the trees and the large green field.
Then we finally arrived back at home, the 2 cats were eagerly awaiting for us on the porch, looking slightly wet and bedraggled. My son was there stroking them quickly, then dashed indoors to get them their food. "I Wonder where they have been hiding?" said my son. They ate their food on the porch then raced indoors to find a place on the arm chairs their favourite spot by the large sunny window, where they proceeded to groom themselves, before falling fast asleep until the early evening!
After the meal the evening was spent listening to music, then watching a film on TV. It was a bit cold, so we put the electric- log- effect fire on to take the chill off. Then it was cocoa and bed with a hot water bottle! Ah the great British summertime!