Gentle days
Jul. 20th, 2020 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I had today off work, for yet another of the three- or four-day weekends I'm taking for the remainder of July and August, and it seems to have reset my mental health for the better. I suspect it was all the cleaning. Today's cleaning has involved:
Cleaning the bathroom
Mopping the floors after Matthias vacuumed
Cleaning the kitchen sink and counters
Defrosting the freezer
Wet-dusting the two remaining bookshelves (having done the other bookshelves last week)
I've also repotted a few of my herb seedlings into the container garden outside, made a huge pot of chicken stock to freeze in batches, and read three books over the course of the weekend, meaning I'm now 2/3 of the way through my reread of Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series and Samantha Shannon's Bone Season series.
I haven't done as much yoga as I'd have liked over the past three days, but I did at least manage one short restorative session focusing on neck, arms and upper back earlier this afternoon.
The big highlight of the weekend was going on a train to Ely to meet up withnotasapleasure and her husband. They are the first people Matthias and I have seen in person, other than delivery drivers and shop assistants, since mid-March. Being on the train made me feel very nervous, even if was only 20 minutes and with everyone wearing masks (other than the two young guys behind us on the way back, who were drinking can after can of beer and talking loudly — and I suspect not entirely truthfully — about their Tinder conquests ... sigh). But it was nice to be able to go slightly further afield, and sit out on the patio of our favourite Ely cafe, and eat homemade Georgian food, and dumplings, and salad made from vegetables grown in our friends' allotment. I'm not sure we'll be repeating such adventures frequently (the train feels like an extravagence and a risk), but as a one off it was good.
And tomorrow it's back to work for another four days, and then another long weekend, and then the whole thing repeats itself.
I've also repotted a few of my herb seedlings into the container garden outside, made a huge pot of chicken stock to freeze in batches, and read three books over the course of the weekend, meaning I'm now 2/3 of the way through my reread of Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series and Samantha Shannon's Bone Season series.
I haven't done as much yoga as I'd have liked over the past three days, but I did at least manage one short restorative session focusing on neck, arms and upper back earlier this afternoon.
The big highlight of the weekend was going on a train to Ely to meet up with
notasapleasure and her husband. They are the first people Matthias and I have seen in person, other than delivery drivers and shop assistants, since mid-March. Being on the train made me feel very nervous, even if was only 20 minutes and with everyone wearing masks (other than the two young guys behind us on the way back, who were drinking can after can of beer and talking loudly — and I suspect not entirely truthfully — about their Tinder conquests ... sigh). But it was nice to be able to go slightly further afield, and sit out on the patio of our favourite Ely cafe, and eat homemade Georgian food, and dumplings, and salad made from vegetables grown in our friends' allotment. I'm not sure we'll be repeating such adventures frequently (the train feels like an extravagence and a risk), but as a one off it was good.And tomorrow it's back to work for another four days, and then another long weekend, and then the whole thing repeats itself.
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Date: 2020-07-23 11:18 am (UTC)I really want to go to the beach, and it is possible to get to e.g. the Norfolk coast by train, but that really doesn't seem worth the risk.