I've been off work for a week now, and I feel like the days have been drifting lazily by. This is good, but I do want to pin down what I've been doing, because I know from experience that if I don't, I'll go back to work feeling like I've done 'nothing', when in fact the days have been full of extraordinary everyday moments. We've had some glorious sunshine, and had our first visitors since September, and I can't tell you how lovely it was to sit outside in the sunshine. The world seems such a brighter place when the sun shines, doesn't it? Full of possibilities. I even did some cleaning. We took some of our visitors round the fields - there are some signs of life in the woodland, and yet another dry stone wall collapse. We've been elsewhere to visit family and friends as well, and the weather has treated us very well indeed. I managed to get out on my bike, down one of the old railway trails - I'd forgotten just how much fun cycling is, and have now ordered a parking permit so I can go whenever I like without having to find change for the parking meter. I've pottered about in the garden - an activity that is far more fun now the chickens have finally been released from almost 16 weeks under their 'flockdown' housing order. It's so nice to have them roaming around in the garden with me. So there has been lots of rest and lazing around and visiting so far, but I've started to feel a vague sense of drifting, and like I 'should' be doing something. I get this often, and I do try to fight it - rest is important, and I don't want to fill my entire holidays with 'shoulds'.
Nonetheless, there are things that need doing, and I know a sense of achievement makes me feel good. And all the days are starting to feel like they're merging into one, and I don't want to lose any more of my holiday to internet scrolling and supermarket trips. So, as I often do when I start to feel a little like this, I'm going to post in here more often, trying to pin down the cheerful moments in what I've done each day, creating a record to look back on at the end of the holidays. I'm not sure where today is going yet. We have to collect a prescription, and we'll probably combine that with a walk and a couple of errands. I might try to jump start the second car, which has had a flat battery for weeks. But I feel like there needs to be something fun in there too - even if it's just some light garden pottering with the chickens. We'll see.
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