Although I’ve been relaxing, I see this will be my 217th post of the year, on the 256th day. It means I’m 39 posts off my original target of averaging one a day, but it has allowed me to relax with the rest of my writing, which seems to have helped things along.
Nothing of note happened yesterday. We had a good cooked breakfast instead of a puny fibre and fruit filled bowl of sensible goodness, but we had it as brunch, so kept the calories down that way. I had an email telling me two of my haiku were being retained for further consideration. This releases enough rejects for me to compile my last submission of the month. It does not, however, raise much hope as my previous experience of being short-listed does not provide much reason for optimism. But you never know.
The Heron is back again. Arnot Hill Park
I did the shopping online this afternoon and have ordered a number of healthy things. Now that the cooler weather is here we find ourselves feeling more like cooking. The kitchen gets quite a lot of afternoon sun and can be uncomfortable. I’m toying with the idea of some form of shade, particularly if the weather is likely to get hotter. In the old days I would have rigged up a pergola, but these days we will need a builder, and once you have a builder you end up subsidising his lavish lifestyle and the bills pile up. I can buy a retractable awning for only £3,800 according to an advert I just read, but that doesn’t include fitting. It’s a lot to pay for a cooler kitchen.
A more economic answer may be the one we chose this summer – eat salad. You can’t suffer from the heat of the kitchen if making tea consists of pulling salad out of the fridge.
Cormorant
The awning sounds like a good idea but it is expensive. Have you thought about moving to Scotland?
I did think about it, but decided that a man with arthritis and bad knees is probably better off in the Fens.
Eating salad is a great way of dealing with summer. One of our favorite meals in the summer. But, it doesn’t hurt to look into other options, even though they are expensive. Summers are unlikely to get cooler as time goes by. At least that had been our experience in Maine, which is not a state known for its hot weather. But for the past five summers or so, we have had some horrible heat, especially in July.
When I was in my early teens I swear they spoke about a new Ica Age coming . . .
That concept is gone, and we have the temperatures to prove it.
🙂
Jackie tells me that veg and salad are very low in calories. Your numbers about posts are likely to be more accurate then WP’s
That is the basic problem with my lifestyle – veg and salad are good for me but I prefer meat, cheese and sugar. 🙁