A lazy start to the day. No breakfast as John and I are dining out this morning. A rare treat. The lad has been home for a few days and heads back to the bright lights this evening. Will be seeing him again tomorrow when we head to the Royal Albert Hall for the proms. Bruch’s violin concerto amongst others.
Looks windy out there this morning. The wagging tail of hurricane Evangeline. Not really. Just thought it sounded good. I toyed with calling it hurricane Methuselah but decided against that. Not completely satisfied with Evangeline but there is no mileage in wasting any more time on it.
We appear to be missing the extremes of weather being seen by the rest of the world. Forty six degrees Centigrade in parts of southern Europe. Floods elsewhere. Just typical British summer weather here. I’m not too unhappy with that. As long as it doesn’t get too wet when I go camping at the Eisteddfod in August. Now that I’ve said that it will of course chuck it down. We are talking Pwllheli!
Uphill Lincoln seems quiet this morning. I guess it isn’t nine o’clock yet. Sunday and all that. Folk will be easing themselves into the day. Reading the paper. We used to get the Sunday Times but stopped that perhaps a quarter of a century ago. Certainly before we moved to this house. A different era. Trying to think what else I’ve stopped doing in that time but nothing immediately springs to mind. Certainly nothing relating to the changing times.
Bought a Financial Times a few weekends ago. The Saturday issue is a good read. It was four quid if I remember right. Thought about an online subscription but I wouldn’t use it enough to justify the three hundred and something pounds.
I have stopped going to the pub on a regular basis. Early doors on a Friday night used to be a thing. Now it’s only an occasional visit. Covid put an end to that routine. That and a low carb diet.
Sometimes if I was travelling back from somewhere I’d stop off at the Morning Star for a couple and call Anne to say I was just passing Newark. That gave me half an hour. It was a lot easier to do after they banned smoking in pubs. I suspect Anne was never fooled anyway 🙂…
Looking at the heatwave hitting Europe and remembering the hot summer we had last year I pondered getting an aircon unit in. We had one but it fell out of use and eventually took it to the tip. Part of me says now is the right time to buy when it is not hot in the UK. However part of me says if it gets too hot the only sensible thing to do is to down tools and sit in the shade with a cold drink. Right now I’m not buying aircon 🙂
Had an excellent lunch prepared by THG. Noodle soup. Didn’t make breakfast at Waitrose and instead had yo gurt, berries and gra nola. Then cracked on with the jobslist. Getting to the point where all the low hanging fruit has been picked, so to speak and now facing gargantuan tasks such as tidying the garage. Tidying the garage is a minimum one day effort where the all the contents have to be emptied into the front drive and replaced far more efficiently and orderly. I anticipate finding a few things that I’ve noticed are lost. It will have to wait until the week after next.
In the meantime I’ve put up some shelves, fixed a trellis, marinated the pork blown the leaves away from the front, prepped some courgettes for the barbecue as well as getting some stuffed mushrooms with roquefort, onion and sun dried tomato filling ready. Also got the deets for the Halfords roof box and three lots of roof bars that we are selling on Facebook Marketplace. More clutter gone from the garage.
As well as tidying the garage I need to affix a bike rack mount on the wall. Bought last year but not used the damn thing yet and it gets in the way in front of my bench.