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Soup, Birds and Mobility

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I woke early, felt full of enthusiasm and set to work. You’ve heard it all before so I won’t go on, but I often feel that a good start leads to a disappointing finish. In this case, however, it lead to some useful work and a very nice lunch (even though I say it myself) of cauliflower soup. Actually it was cauliflower and leeks with garlic, black pepper and nutmeg and a few shavings of cheese thrown in from the Christmas leftovers.

There is enough to do lunch tomorrow too.

I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, but I’ve been looking into buying a mobility scooter. I need to get out. I don’t remember the last time I went out except to drive to either Nottingham or Peterborough. No, now I’ve typed that, I do remember. I went to the Military History Meeting – drove straight there in the dark, parked, walked 200 yards to the museum, sat, listened and then did it all again, but in reverse. It’s hardly surprising I have little to write poetry about.

Blackcap – the Northern Nightingale or John Clare’s March Nightingale. Times change and we now have them all year round.

I’ve narrowed it down to two models from different companies. One has solid tyres and a a lithium battery, which are both good things that I want. The other lacks the tyres and lithium battery, but has LED headlights (the other has an old-fashioned single lamp,  which has attracted negative feedback for being difficult to replace). The final complication is that one company seems to offer better customer service than the other, though I have just been talking to someone at the one that is supposedly deficient, and it seems OK to me.

It’s very difficult making decisions sometimes, and it isn’t made easier by the amount of information that is now available on the internet. The feedback for one company is freely available on Amazon – both good and bad. The other doesn’t seem to sell anywhere apart from its own website, and the feedback is restricted to glowing testimonials from happy customers.

I’m going to sleep on it and decide tomorrow.

Meanwhile, it’s the Garden Birdwatch this weekend and we are planning on doing it tomorrow, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for some good bird sightings.

Blackbird.

 

Missed a day – Ooops!

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I missed a day. Sorry about that. It would be nice to report that after leaving work on Saturday I became embroiled in writing and wasn’t able to find time to produce a blog post, but in fact I spent most of the time sleeping. I actually went to bed in the afternoon for about 4 hours. It was, I think, nature’s way of telling me to sleep more and get back to a sensible routine.

At the back of my mind I have an idea that I should be able to produce good work in the early hours of the morning when everything is quiet and there is nobody to disturb me. This was true at one time, but these days I tend to find that I don’t do anything worthwhile after midnight. All that happens is that after an hour or two of doing nothing useful I go to be, sleep badly and next day, find myself nodding off in the afternoon or evening.

At the moment I have three submissions to edit before sending them off, and two others to finish writing. I suppose that I can at least take pleasure from the fact that I have three ready. This is three more than I manged in either February or May, so it’s not all bad, even if it short of target. With two days to go I can still do a bit better, so I’ll get this finished and get to work.

Of course, as soon as I say that, the ideas stop. Julia just called me to remind me that we are going out tonight. We are going to a carvery. I had forgotten ll about it. If I’d remembered I would have cooked a smaller brunch.

Random photos, sorry, I have no inspiration. Two views of the red boat at Dunwich. One from last week, one from several years ago.

Red boat at Dunwich

Saturday Once More

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Yes, it’s Saturday again, and the end of the working week. As I set off to work I will do so knowing that I have a day without supervision (the owner has swapped days and is off today) and several regulars booked in with appointments.

I’m sorry about the abrupt end to yesterday’s post but I woke up with eighteen minutes to go and had to get into action quickly to preserve my record of daily posting. There was no time for elegance, just select an existing image and a few tags before publishing.

If you look at the comments you will notice that Lavinia, Rick and the cats are currently OK, but still ready to move at short notice. Good luck to them all.

I’m writing before leaving because I am going out tonight. It’s against my will, but I’m having to be sociable. Let’s face it, being sociable is against my normal inclinations too, but I am under orders from Julia.

Sadly, I think I just ran out of things to say. I have a lot on my mind this morning and the words are not coming easily. There’s nothing bad on my mind, just remembering to take certain things to work and wondering if there will be a parking space when I get there. The optician’s staff and hairdresser’s clients all seem to think, for instance, that our parking spaces are fair game.

When I win the lottery I’m going to rent 12 cars for a week and park them in the spaces used by people who habitually abuse our spaces.

Money, in case you are wondering, will definitely not make me a nicer person. I’ll just be the same old grouch but will be able to afford more books have a butler to wake me in time to finish my blog posts properly.