Recently I have slipped back to that bad habit of
getting up late. It is certainly delightful to snuggle under the
duvet in the morning but getting up after 9 feels so wrong. The days
are getting shorter now and it is a waste of the light. So I've given
myself a jolly good talking-to and will be making every effort to
climb out of bed at least an hour earlier.
Another change I have to make is to get outdoors
more. I have decided that if the day is dry I will find something to
do outside rather than lurk in the house. In the past two days have
been working in my vegetable plot and in my flower garden. I have
been foraging for blackberries. I have been watching the buzzards and
I have been drinking coffee and reading the Sunday papers in the poly
tunnel which is far, far, far nicer than drinking coffee and reading
papers on the kitchen sofa. I have been wheeling barrows of dung ,
sowing and harvesting vegetables and collecting seed.
It is going to rain tomorrow. It is going to teem
and lash and blow for it is Monday. Now I don't know if anyone else
from Cully has noticed this but it always rains on Mondays, usually
in the afternoon. I think it might have been fine for a couple of
Mondays in May but not since. Even after a pleasant spell, like the
past three days, I can be sure it will rain on Monday.
The reason I can be certain about this is because
my oldest daughter and her family always come out here on Monday
afternoons to work on their vegetable plots. And it is always raining
when they are here. Luckily, for them, a good part of their plot is
in the poly tunnel, so they don't get too disheartened.
I'm just sorry I cannot go blackberrying tomorrow.
It is very fine and pleasant to wander up the hedgerows listening to
Sebastian Faulks' 'Birdsong' with Judy at my heels and a bunch of
cattle ignoring me.
Bert said,
That wee black bull. He wasn't harrassing you?
The wee black bull? Would he?
Aye. He's getting very belligerent.
I don't think I'd have been in that field with
Judy had I known that the wee black bull was getting airs about
himself.
So there it is. Two days out in the open air.
Working! And I feel a lot happier even though I've got a sore
shoulder (right side), a sore elbow (left side) and sore knees
(both). At least I didn't get attacked by the wee black bull. That
would have been hard to take and it only two weeks since I got tossed
and trodden on by that pig.
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I usually can't sleep past 5:30 am to many years of getting up at that time. I've tried to stay in...it never works...but then early morning when the world is just awakening...
That is what I'd love to be able to do. It would give me at least three hours on my own before anyone else got up. My own mother was a very early riser. Northern Irish winter morns can be very cold and dank. I don't know what yours are like but they must be better than ours.
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