Things To Do

 It’s just past ten and already we have had a long walk and a trip to MacDonalds for a proper coffee.

Yesterday was a nothing day; the days after night shift usually are as by early morning you have already worked an 8 hour shift that day and after a few hours sleep…….that day is a bust

I knew I’d need something to do today.

It’s just figuring just what!

Sundays are a couple and family day. 

I get that and don’t usually encroach. 

But today my single friends are as rare as hen’s teeth 

Chic Eleanor is away. Colin has been unwell, there is nothing much on at the cinema, either art house or mainstream and even FACT over in Liverpool has little on that interests me.

I feel like company today

Sod’s law I haven’t any

Postscript ….

And that’s fine…after coffee, I set to returning all of my refugee clothing to my bedroom. It’s amazing how piles of t shirts accumulate in corners and how dollops of underpants show their gusset holes on top of Roger’s crate. So I’ve washed and folded and put away a whole shop’s worth of clothes and made room for books and bits and pieces on the bedroom bookshelves .

I’m glad I did for I found two precious belongings tucked away behind the paperbacks

The first was my grandmother’s bible 

It’s missing a cover and it looks pretty sad for itself , but tucked away in Samuel was the stalk of a button hole, the stain on long gone flower petals on the pages which pressed it.

It was my grandfather’s button hole from his wedding and is 100 years old 

It was lovely to visit it again.

And keeping it company was a rustic woollen ewe made by Ma Manley 

She made it from the wool I collected from Irene 

It’s the only thing I have now of the soay ewes after Roger decimated my woolly hat last year.

It was nice to see her too.

The bedroom now looks clean and ordered.

I washed the floorboards and opened the windows wide to blow away the cobwebs

This afternoon , I made meatballs from scratch and used tomatoes from the telephone box food bank ( I swapped for packets of stock cubes) to make a rich sauce. There were lots of spring onions in the bank too so I made garlic and spring onion mash too

Quite productive for a lonely day