Slept well again! I’m helping my wife hang some curtains at a customer’s house this morning, so we get up at a reasonable time (7.45am) and get the day started with a cup of tea (me) and coffee (my wife). My wife takes the dog for a quick walk while I drink my tea and check email, and then we leave the house. It takes a couple of hours to hang the 3 pairs of curtains and a Roman blind. My wife is the one up the stepladders doing the work, while I pass her the curtains and then take photos for her business’ Facebook page and website.
When we get back home my wife leaves for Hevingham to babysit our granddaughter again, and I feel that I have a bit more energy today, so elect to do a little work around the house before she returns. I freak the dog out a bit when I pick up the vacuum cleaner (she hates the noise, and usually retires to her bed until the coast is clear), but she’s okay when she sees me taking it upstairs. I give the bathroom a thorough clean (including the windows – inside and out!) and then vacuum our bedroom.
I take the dog for her afternoon walk, and she has a couple of other dogs to chase around on the field for a change. On our way to the field, I bump into Berni Marfleet (one of the Open Studios artists that we visited on Saturday) who had come to tell me that we had won a meal in The Vernon Arms by completing the Smallburgh to Southrepps Art Trail. Absolutely made up!
We return home and I’m feeling pretty exhausted by this time, but want to prepare the dinner as well. I manage to prepare some veg, but when I go to peel some garlic to go with the chicken breasts that my wife took out of the freezer this morning, I have to sit down and rest – fatigue suddenly swamps me, and my balance is suffering too. Tremor increases as well, and I know that the time for a little self-medication may be approaching. My wife returns and finishes what I had started, and then we eat.
I self-medicate with a beer – I’m saving the cannabis until bedtime, given the success of the last 2 nights.