Another tiring day...

15 May 2025  (Thursday)

Up early with the alarm at 6am as I had a day at Vanessa; doing stuff for both For Earth’s Sake and the Great Green Barn.

The drive was sort of OK; I think two hours needs to be allowed for, with a pee break at one of the service stations included on route!

These days are usually very tiring, both mentally and physically, maybe feeling more tiring due to the driving.  If we were just down the road it might be a breeze, maybe, though it’s not.

There was to be an event in Great Green Barn in the evening, a Women’s Health talk and Vanessa’s regular handyman and tech person was stuck unexpectedly on another job, so there was quite a bit of carrying around of tables from the dell up to the barn, moving chairs around too, tidying things, plus as there’s an event on Sunday for which bottles of wine and soft drinks are on Sale or Return, these had to be sorted and put in the fridge - though not the red wine and crisps!

We popped out to lunch to a local garden centre, which always gives us time to chat - what needs ordering, staff rota, Midsummer Revels plans for later in June, immediate and upcoming events in the Great Green Barn, planning much further ahead, requirements for next Tuesday’s Afternoon Teas under the beams of the Great Green Barn, seeing shows for programming… the list isn’t endless, though sometimes it feels so!

Late in the afternoon, with much of the work work day done, I got a text from Richard; I was just about to leave and read with some glee that he was going to use up the thrown together chilli I did a few days ago and turn it into something for this evening - fine with me!!  He usually cooks something for us when I’m out for the day, which is always very welcome.

The drive back was OK, though in two spots where vehicles regularly wrongly cross lanes whilst going round a roundabout and then again at a junction further on I had to brake to stop the car next to me coming into Fenella - we know these trouble spots well, even if others don’t or are just too ignorant to care, so we drive accordingly, knowing crossing lanes is a regular occurrence.

Back home and swiftly off down the road for a quick feed and injection of a neighbour’s cat, and then we settled for supper (delish!) and a few episodes of As Time Goes By… which I still often find laugh out loud despite knowing the situations and storyline so well.

Going to bed I just had twenty pages of Death in the Dordogne to read, which I did.  It was rather more chilly than recent nights, so a spooning snuggle was called for by Richard; with my head at an angle I can still read my book whilst he goes to sleep and gently snores… until it’s time for me to put my book down and the light out, at which point I gently shove him over to his side as I’ll just get too hot otherwise!


Weather:  Noticeably chillier today, at only about 16°.  Sun behind clouds all day.

Breakfast:  All Bran, yogurt, sultanas and banana
Lunch:  Panini with mushrooms and something else, at a garden centre local to Vanessa
Supper:  Cheezy Potato topped leftovers of my Thrown Together Chilli