The negatives
I'm absolutely shattered from burning the candle at both ends, jobs around the house and garden, going out and sorting things out.
The positives
Having reached out and said I was struggling and bumping into a friend, plus son's paperwork emergency issue, I've had a good week with friends, getting out and getting on with things and feeling much more positive. I've been much more receptive to suggestions from Peter and I've also been much more relaxed and chilled out.
Saturday 1st August A lazy day all round. I finally got up at midday and we went into town. The well had been dressed. We picked up a few things for our holiday. Home to root through the attic and desks to try and track down some paperwork for child 3 in Australia which I know I gave him several years ago. After tidying up everything, which included paperwork in the dining room, the lounge and the loft, we had dinner, the garden was watered and we watched Amazon Prime and I dealt with some idiotic responses on Twitter/X.
Sunday 2nd August Craft room rearranged as I had to get into the loft space to access child 3's keep sake box to prove to him the paperwork I'd given him a few years ago, that he has since lost in a house move, was most definitely not in my possession any more. A load washing on the line, stuff sorted for our holiday and we spent the rest of the day at Witley Court an English Heritage Site. late afternoon spent watching Scarpetta on Amazon, followed by dinner, garden watered and some tidying up done and into bed by 10pm after finding online copies of the documents son needs to discover he had the originals all along, he just didn't recognise them.
Monday 3 August Peter dropped me in town and I went for a coffee, got some stamps and sorted out my travel insurance and a parking ticket. I managed to get the price reduced by 50% from £100 as I explained it was when the dealership registered the car to the wrong address and the neighbour had opened the post and just thrown it and the reminder away. I did accept full responsibility and said I'd chased it up as soon as I'd found out. it was very kind of them to do it for me. I then had a manicure and pedicure, popped to the post office and Peter met me and I had another coffee and it was home for a late lunch and the rest of the day in the garden digging up weeds, cutting back shrubs, while Peter sifted through the soil in the back and wheel narrowing it to the front to finish levelling up the front lawn. The next door neighbour, followed by the neighbour over the road joined us for a chat. I tidied and swept up and got ready for an hours spinfit. Peter had dinner ready and after dealing with a complete breakdown of the 4 way traffic light system outside our house with photos and an email to Cadent as the local slimming world group were just driving out when they fancied and had parked inside the roadworks without working out whose turn it was causing total chaos, we watched TV and then Peter watered the garden and I restored the loft rooms after the paperwork debacle of the weekend. In bed by 10pm. The Theatre of Inconvenience. The Worlds Smallest Theatre.
Tuesday 4 August A lovely, relaxing day. I met two of my friends for brunch, came home to do a lot of tidying and packing and sorting through paperwork. Back into town in the afternoon to get my hair cut by my friend who is a stylist and then we went for coffee. I got home at 7pm. We watched TV and got to bed late. Wondering why we're going on holiday when the weather has been so lovely and we live in such a beautiful place.
Wednesday 5 August We got up, hung washing on the line and went out for coffee to Worcester and stocked up on cat food. Home and pottered around tying up a few loose ends. Suitcases repacked to sort the weight limit out and hand luggage packed. I cleaned the downstairs toilet and the back room ready for the cat. I went out to the retail park to buy some gluten free biscuits and bread rolls for the first few days of our holiday, then had a coffee as I was early for the gym. Peter cleaned the house. I popped round the neighbours to pick up my water bottle. We're all going to Crete on our holidays, about an hour apart, will be funny if we bump into one another while we're away. We watched TV in the evening and I did some blogging and it was another late night after giving the garden a good watering as there is no rain forecast while we are away.
Thursday 6 August Quite a lot of hanging around. I took a walk to the post box and dropped off the contents from the fridge with the neighbour and we made our way to the translation with the car and our cases. I then drove home and walked back to the station.We caught the train to Birmingham airport and had 2 hours to wait ahead of check in and it took about 90 minutes to clear security so we were nicely relaxed ahead of our flight to Crete. It was an uneventful flight, with luggage arriving on time and a smooth transfer an hour away to our hotel. We arrived around 3am local time and our key and welcome note was in reception and we made our own way to our room.
Friday 7 August We set the alarm to wake at 8am (6am UK time) so we could have breakfast, then went back to bed for a couple of hours and slept. We then walked into the nearby town around 10 mins away, which is in an old fishing harbour, passing a selection of restaurants, coffee shops, souvenir shops and cat feeding areas. It's a really pretty town, there's a water park here and lots to do for the next two weeks. We collected some information for some trips and bus routes and bought some basics for snacks and dinner for the evening to eat back in our room, plus some water and juices etc. I went back to sleep for a couple of hours and Peter sat on the balcony. We then explored the local beach area, but I declared it too hot so went back to the room to get myself something to eat while Peter sat by the pool. I joined him later for a quick swim. By 6pm we were back in the room, reading and just chilling out for the evening.
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