I woke at 7.00, ascertained that I was on holiday, and went back to sleep until 8.30. I could get used to being retired, if this is what it is like. On the other hand, sleeping in does tend to blur the lines between life and death, and I’d like to preserve that line as I get older.
Maybe all those pensioners who clutter up the blood testing department at City Hospital need to get there at 6.30 to prove they are still alive.
Yesterday we emptied the space under the stairs so the electricians could install a Protective Multiple Earth. No, me neither…
Today we looked at the heap of detritus that had built up and decided to load it straight in the back of the car and deliver it directly to a charity shop.
It wasn’t actually that direct as we went for breakfast at McDonald’s first then picked up a prescription. Then we went to dump the detritus, or donate our surplus kitchen equipment. It definitely depends on your point of view.
After that we went to a shopping outlet to look for Christmas inspiration, but ended up buying books.
Finally we went for soup at Denby Pottery. We tried to buy pottery but there wasn’t anything we wanted. I had vegetable and fizzy orange soup. The vegetable was deliberate, the fizzy orange was because Julia didn’t think it was important to tell me she’d dropped the bottle on the way to the table.
And that was how we spent our day.
I was wondering about that fizzy orange in the soup.
It was OK, but I probably wouldn’t do it again. 🙂
The fizzy orange soup was a stroke of genius on Julia’s part. I’m sure the effervescence enlivened you.
Lunch was enlivened quite enough by the discussion about booby-trapped orange. In addition to being wet and sticky I was, it seems, “unreasonable”. 🙂
The trick to get older is to keep waking up on the correct side of the ground. 🙂
That’s the green side isn’t it? 🙂 I find myself marvelling at my ability to breathe without thinking – I( seem to forget everything else!
Another avalanche of alliteration, I am very happy.
Fizzy orange soup will probably become a ‘thing’ now that you have mentioned it. Did you Instagram it?
I have enough trouble with WordPress without extending my list of digital tormentors. I alliterated especially for you…
Well books are always a good thing, then you can spend the rest of the day reading them.
But it does defeat the decluttering we are trying to do…