Falling asleep on the sofa i dragged myself to the bathroom to get ready for bed. In bed: 👀 Why???

Today remembered the earphones, forgot the kindle 🤦‍♀️ I woke up early too but concentrated on doing my nerve glides and neck exercises to get them out the way.

One of the French doors is open and a motorbike went past, cue lots of frog croaks, a relief that they are both OK as they've been very quiet these last few weeks since I moved the tank 🐸

Lol 😆

Kite show at the seaside

Planned a day out with my mam as her birthday yesterday. She just called to say she is on her way, she hadn't realised I'd answered the phone and she was complaining to my dad about going. Nice start.

Forgotten my earphones for the commute 😭

Been to lidl for the food shop since I'm busy Saturday & won't have the time or the energy. Bought my Saturday breakfast pastry and figured I could put it in the fridge and hope it doesn't go stale. Then thought oh I could go Friday evening for it. So this means I can eat that one now right? 😋

I have been absolutely loving Fourth wing up to now, but there's an hour to go (audiobook), and her dumb ass is going to forgive him, isn't she? 🙄 🤮 #Booksky 🪐📚

This is the best cabbage! No debate 😊

Batch cooking was: •Breakfast burritos •Chicken, lentil, feta, spinach & beetroot salad •Pork loin and kale, will add mash •Chicken Noodles All very unplanned this week.

Took myself off to lidl early, good choice because I got two chickens for the price of one 😊 I'm not actually sure what I'll be cooking for this week yet, but there'll definitely be chicken.

Art class tonight, my drawing has progressed so much since week two. Now, it's a very recognisable face shape with a decent nose and better proportion this time. Still not great with the mouth, but hey, can't have it all. Just a really enjoyable hour of my week

Polling Station was in the library so I picked this up while there. One of my favourite authors to read under one of my favourite trees while the sun's out.

Going to vote, God help me if I run into any Farage supporters, or God help them.

Due to finishing two books earlier than expected (because they were short not because I've found time for reading 😁) I'm starting this series that everyone was raving about. Hoping it lives up to expectations 📚🪐

Bank holiday batch cooking: •Lamb koftas with feta, rice, and roasted veggies • Chicken noodle dish • Tumeric & cumin turkey mince with peas, spinach and lentils (I forgot how much I love this) • fajita chicken with lentils • 3x protein yogurt with chopped mango

OK so the parents Internet sorted. Finally. A 50-min long phone call with the broadband company, from the floor because some genius thought plugs at skirting level were a good idea for bungalows. Ended up using my email & tel number, plugging in old router and using it as a bridge to new router 🙄

Having spent yesterday unwell playing skyrim. I decided today can not be the same, so I've put away all my really winter clothes, pulled out all my really summer clothes, and am now going through the entire wardrobe to throw out or keep. If the weather turns bad, now you know who's fault it is 😁

OK so it's not tree pollen. It's a cold. I can't get into the night nurse, which means I did not sleep well and have not gone to work. Too Infected, too unwell.

Apparently, today is low grass pollen & high tree pollen. I don't have a tree pollen allergy, yet here I am, all afternoon eyes streaming, nose running, constant sneezing. Guess I have a tree pollen allergy now 🤧 would really appreciate it if my immune system could stop coming up with new allergies

Lovely walk to see my parents in the sunshine, I walk past someone picking their drugs up in a little plastic bag. He says, "Aren't they getting smaller" shrinkflation has also hit the drugs trade, it seems .

A busy day, food shopped & batch cooked, went to the library, read in the gardens, finished this book ⬇️. Cleaned up after all the cooking, cut the new bedroom curtains down to a more suitable size. They are waiting to be hemmed. Exercised, quick 20 mins of Spanish. Now time to relax with skyrim.

This is such a lovely thread, I love it when people find their thing 😊

Batch cooking done: •Breakfast burritos • Chicken curry with lidl five grain rice and green beans portioned up •Lemon and garlic pork with giant cous cous and peppers. I have bought too much food lately, which means I just had to cook mussels in their shell & eat them for dinner 😁 #FancySaturday

Been out to lidl for the food shop, very warm already. There'll be a lot of white legs out and about today 😁

God, I love this planet 🤩

Well, my glutes can't take any more sitting down, so I'm going to go lay in bed and hope that helps 😩 #pilates #sore

Tonight is #WorldBookNight, so join in with the #ReadingHour from 7-8 pm. You can read absolutely anything in any format. If you are a busy #NHS worker, your local #NHSLibrary has fiction books too!

Hated the pilates class I tried last Thursday. Am I trying it again today? Yes, because I will not be beaten Unless I also hate it this time, in which case I've given it a good go, and it's not for me 😂

Had an email about tonight's art class, it is going to be people and places through collage. I need to go buy a magazine

Bacteria serve as a “maker space” for accelerated evolutionary experimentation that can spread across life forms. Even today, eukaryotes beg, borrow, and steal from bacteria’s innovations.

BBC: There’s a lovely film on Youtube called How Wolves Change Rivers. It describes how wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone precipitated a series of ecological benefits…It’s a beautiful and uplifting notion but, according to some scientists, total nonsense.🧪 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Today's time in the garden. Previously filled raised bed now has seedlings and seeds planted in (beetroot, dill, spring onion, lettuce, radish), covered with a plastic sheet for warmth and humidity. One old sink dug in, this is to be re-purposed into a smal pond. I do not enjoy digging.

He knows so many words, and yet he can not put together that rolling in cat poo is what means he has to have a shower, every time. He's one grumpy yorkie right now.

Finished listening to this yesterday. It was a little predictable, but don't we all love a happy ending? It did throw some twists in towards the end that surprised me. I really like the year of books concept. Someone should pick that up 💙📚 #booksky

Back to the routine, today's batch cooking: •Breakfast burritos •Butternut squash and red pepper soup •Lentil, squash, red cabbage, sundried tomato salad with halloumi (halloumi cooked later) •Meatballs for something undecided, maybe just the freezer.

Photos from a quick wander (because I was dressed for an interview not a ramble) around one of the local nature reserves.

This week, I had a couple of days off, so I wandered around the local museums (Wilberforce and Streetlife)

Just stopped myself buying these on sale in tesco. Love the colour but that pointed toe 😬 not these days #Boots #FashionSky

This was good fun. Made a passable drawing of a face. Passable in that you can tell it's meant to be a face 😊

I am attending my first online art class tonight. It was for 6 weeks but I didn't see it until the first week was already in session. Signed up from this week onwards, see how it goes.

I've finished hate watching all 6 series of This is us. Now I have nothing to watch. Cancelled netflix because there's not been anything on there for ages.

Trying to connect the parents new Internet router, behind a giant shelving unit she just had to have despite not looking at the measurements. I've hurt my hand my shoulder and now I'm at the time of day I can feel my earrings I'm going home. Nothing solved 😔

Well, this went OK tbh. I had to wash and style it to make sure, but it turned out OK, longer than I'd like, but at least I know this technique works.

OK I'm cutting my own hair today. I've watched a YouTube video for curly hair and I'm just going to do it. Maybe start small first with less than the recommended length of cut and see how that goes.

It's my third, 4-day weekend in a row. At this point, I'm not sure I could manage a full week of work 😂 and I'll be very sad to go back to it. Anyway, I'm up and going for a walk in the sunshine

Greetings from Namibia as I am about to run the first of our annual photography tours in this uniquely beautiful photography paradise! It's always such a pleasure to return to this wonderful, multifaceted country! #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #bluesky