Nice to hear from you RTL but oh dear, what a long drag for you to get home, you must have been totally exhausted by the time you got home. It'll be Tuesday when you read this so I hope things have worked out better for you and you get a good long sleep after your shift.
PharmaT, I hope your children manage to settle down with their school work and you can get some rest too.
Diary:
Slept very heavily last night and had to drag myself awake, was still feeling down despite getting things off my chest yesterday. Couldn't be bothered getting up properly, took cup of tea back to bed twice, watched a bit of This Morning, manicured my nails. Eventually got myself up and dressed to go off for my walk, just about to leave when I got a message from my friend asking if we were still on for our beach walk this afternoon, I confirmed yes and we arranged to meet at 4pm when the tide would be out.
It was very quiet on the field today, not sure how many of the children have gone back to school but there weren't any around. Had a lengthier walk through the woods but I still felt agitated. Back home for lunch, had no appetite. Got a message from a friend who has her own business, she's reopening her shop in two weeks but not hopeful of much business.
Got my garden chair out, that seemed to be a signal to NNN to start messing about on the dividing fence , she'd had all morning to get on with it. She'd mentioned yesterday that she had some boards to put up (bring it on!), I think that's what she was doing but heaven knows what she was using to fasten them on. She always makes sure I know she's there, singing bits of the background music. Tried to ignore her, turned my chair around and read but felt like turning the garden hose on her! It was soooo hot on my patio, could have done with moving down the garden but wanted to stay out of any possible eyeline.
Came in later and had a shower, clean clothes. By this time I was fighting off a panic attack, partly due to the NNN and partly because I was about to go out properly for the first time in ten weeks. Got in the car feeling as if I'd get there and there would be a big crowd all laughing and shouting April Fool! Of course there wasn't. Got parked okay, texted my friend to tell her I was there and she arrived in a couple of minutes. I got quite tearful when I saw her, she wanted to hug me but of course we couldn't. There were people about but no-one too close, we walked along to the slipway and down to the beach, a great expanse of sand, we had a lovely walk for about an hour then turned back, so a two hour walk. I was so grateful to my friend, I felt so much better and calmer having been out and particularly with a friend to chat to face to face. Came back with a spring in my step (as well as sand!).
Well tomorrow is forecast lovely but the weather after that is forecast to turn much cooler with heavy rain. Never mind, I'll get some housework done and maybe some painting.
Watched Long Lost Family Special tonight, goodness me it was so heart rending. Off for a soak in the bath, hope everyone has had a good day.
