I was woken by a loud crash as Treacle
jumped off the bed at seven o’clock. I heard her come downstairs, and after a
few minutes I could hear her crying. I came downstairs to let her into the
garden, but not before she’d had a little accident.
As she “did business” in the
garden I cleared up the accident. I was rather surprised she’d tiddled inside –
it is very unlike her. We shall have to keep an eye on her.
I got the washing machine and dishwasher
doing their things, then scoffed a bowl of muesli whist watching an episode of
“Bottom” before having my morning rummage round the Internet. I told the
world about my seventh album choice. “The Fine Art of Surfacing” by the
Boomtown Rats was a firm favourite from the same time when I was particularly
religious... I’ve shed the God-bothering, but still kept a love of the Boomtown
Rats.
I then rolled my eyes at what others
were posting on Facebook. There are half a dozen local groups, the participants
of all of which were competing to out-do everyone else in squealing up their
neighbours for perceived breaches of lock-down.
With a few minutes spare I lifted down a
huge box which has sat unopened in the back bedroom for years. I was very
pleasantly surprised to see it contained several Lego kits, and a *lot*
of loose Lego. I spent a little while looking to see what was in the loose
Lego, then I drove "er indoors TM" up to her boss’s
house to collect a consignment of dongles (!)
We came back past the Home Bargains
shop. I thought that "er indoors TM" might like to
do some shopping. For all that I’ve been having a go for the last couple for
weeks, it has been a tad haphazard. I’ve been buying what looks interesting and
what I think we might need, with no regard for what we actually do need. And so
we’ve ended up with six jars of marmalade but no chips. We have turnips and
swede for the dogs, but no vegetables for the humans.
Shopping today was dull.
When I go to Sainsburys there is usually
at least one “special” one kicking off in the queue, or one memorable
idiotic member of staff. Today – no one.
With shopping unloaded we walked the
dogs round the park. Again we met no idiots; in fact we met hardly anyone at
all.
As we walked my right knee got rather
tender. Yesterday I might have spoken too soon when I said that the
long-distance Reiki hadn’t done any harm.
We came home; I ironed for a little
while whilst watching more episodes of “Bottom” then had a closer look
at the Lego I’d found this morning. I was rather disappointed to find that what
looked like sets to make a motorbike and a truck were just boxes of random
bits, but random Lego technic bits are good. I’ve long been planning to have
either a carousel, Ferris wheel or windmill in my Lego world. So I spent a
little while making a first attempt at a sort of carousel. I was quite pleased
with what I eventually came up with. It worked find in trial runs. So I put a
few minifigures on it, got out the camera, video-ed it and met with utter
disaster. You can see the disaster by clicking here.
But “nil desperandum”… the next
one just needs a heavier base.
As I played Lego so "er indoors TM"
tidied the bedroom. She’s chucked out the manky old chair I used to pile my
clothes on, and given me a nice box in its place. It is a very nice box.
Apparently I’ve got twenty pairs of trousers in that box…
"er indoors TM" boiled up
dinner, and we watched a couple of episodes of “The Heist”. I didn’t
stay awake for all of it.
It’s been a “different” Easter… I
worked Friday, the weekend was glorious sunshine, and all I did was to sit in
the garden. Today the weather was rubbish and we did loads.
Back to work tomorrow…
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