Reflecting on my week #140

September 14, 2020

The weeks are going past in a ‘blur of sameness’ at the moment, even though schools are back and more people are heading back to work. Last week was week 25 of working from home, and while there may be occasional trips to the office, for me, things are likely to stay the same for a little while yet.

I skipped posting here last week, I seemed to have run out of time, which on reflection I think is a manifestation of priorities out of kilter that’s been building for a while. Though a reality check quite often comes along, and mine has too.

I’ve posted before about not quite switching off and needing to be offline, and that’s true, but while my online time can’t always expand how that time is spent should be within my control. So I’ll be working more on that, as well as trying to get my blood pressure down. A routine blood test and an actual visit to the doctors last week identified it was more than a tad on the high side.

In the garden, the roses are starting to flower again perhaps sensing the burst of warm weather that’s expected. I caught the squirrel sitting in one of our mysteriously nibbled pots of salad leaves, which has somewhat dampened our interest in picking some leaves to eat ourselves.

The smallest #notmycat has developed an unhealthy interest in the squirrels, who chase each other round and round in circles. On Friday the cat joined in, and watching them made me laugh out loud. Even more so when the squirrel headed up the tree at full pelt, leaving the cat confused and wondering where it was. As only cats can, it styled it out, wandering nonchalantly off in the other direction.

In other news I’ve finally finished a crocheted item, and it’s been a while since I have. I have many projects on the go, so it was good to finally sew something together. This laptop sleeve is practical as well as pretty, and will help protect my laptop in a bag, but more on that in another post soon.

The weather is looking good for at least the first part of the week, and we’re planning to get the barbecue fired up again, it’s been a while. The last time we used it was the middle of August when MOH slow-cooked some fabulous pork belly. This week it’ll be more usual fare, though we might get as far as a paella if the weather holds.

Let’s hope so, let’s also hope the ‘rule of six’ does what it needs to in the next few weeks and months.

Post Comment Love 11-13 September

September 11, 2020

Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked and share some of that love.

It’s been a quiet blog week for me, in fact I’ve not posted since last week’s linky. So therefore unusually I’ve no post to add this week. I’m still finding that I’m having too much screen time for work, rather than fun, so need to have a serious word with myself.

Like many people, I’m sure, the most recent government changes have meant more work, reviewing arrangements and plans that we’ve been working on for a while. Clearly a pandemic isn’t too concerned about that, and seeing the number of infections rise is worrying - as is the media’s coverage of young people right now. It’s hardly the way to encourage people, of any age, to do the right thing is it? Calling students going, or returning to university, a migration really doesn’t sit well with me, but let’s not go there.

In other ways this week has been a busy week. A doctor’s appointment for a regular blood test, as it turned out the first in rather a long while (and not just for Covid reasons) which meant rather more attention than I expected, some new tablets and what seems to be the obligatory bruise following a blood test.

I’m fine, if not a little perplexed by all the attention, let alone navigating the doctor’s surgery and its rules in this strange new world of ours. In the past week I’ve had an actual appointment (it’s hard to take blood remotely), two telephone consultations and another booked for next week. And next week’s appointment was booked in by the doctor while he was on the phone to me, so it’s been a little overwhelming too in some ways.

The new tablets come in a fancy bronze strip, which clearly makes them much more effective… or I hope it does at least. I also think the crook of my arm is going to need to toughen up as there’s promises of further blood tests for monitoring purposes, that or we’ll have to make the bruised look, the look to have right now.

Seriously I’m fine, I’m doing my best to follow the advice, and true to form have reverted to a good old spreadsheet to record pretty much everything. I know that once it’s in there, it’s stored and therefore ok to let go of from the active part of my brain, so that should also help too.

Post Comment Love 4-6 September

September 4, 2020

After the past few months of hardly venturing anywhere we’ve been to another National Trust property over the Bank Holiday weekend. I can hardly believe it myself, but I booked tickets for Standen. What I wasn’t quite expecting was to go into the house, but we did. In a socially distanced way. We queued outside for a short while and numbers inside the property were restricted, the upstairs was shut and it felt almost normal.