A Bit of a Lost Week - W/E 26th April 2025

This week got off to an enjoyable start as OH and I headed out to a local Car Boot Sale on Sunday morning, as mentioned in a previous post. We had a nice morning out and a lovely roast dinner at the pub, which I didn't need to cook, which is fine by me.

Later, when we got home, I decided to melt all my odd bits of candle wax, left over from burning various candles and make a new candle. There wasn't quite enough to fill the jar, but it gave me a candle to burn over the next few weeks at least and it smelt very nice.

On Sunday afternoon, I decided to do some tassle making. I'd found a great Pinterest post on it, sorted some scraps to use and then followed the instructions. They turned out ok, but not quite as I'd hoped. I made one for each of my upcycled totes, that I've worked on over the last couple of weeks. It just uses up more scraps and looks decorative. They'll probably fall off at some point, but look pretty enough. They would work very well to decorate gifts too and are a great way to use up scrappy strips of fabric that you might not be able to use any other way.

OH has caught also now caught the same cold, so we've all had it in the last couple of weeks. My cold felt a lot better until Sunday night, when I came over with all achey and flu like symptoms, but the cough was looser and the nose had stopped streaming. We both ended up going to bed early on Sunday, feeling rough.

When I woke on Monday morning I decided to use the last of our covid test kits to make sure I didn't have the virus. I didn't. I was working on Monday afternoon and it was a real effort to drag myself out of bed, get showered and head into work. I was asked twice on my shift if I could stay an extra 2 hours, but I declined. I didn't have it in me. I feel like I've aged 10 years in the last 10 days, it's been a real stinker.

On Tuesday morning, I decided to give my usual class at the gym a miss, due to my chest still not being great. I needed a break anyway. I got up late, feeling a bit better, did a few jobs around the house and then went out to do the weekly shop, which I hadn't been well enough to do the day before.

The weekly shop went okay. I managed to pick up some yellow stickered meat products, i.e. a chicken for OH, some organic beef burgers, some mince (which I rarely buy) and a couple of chicken and mushroom pies.  They were really insane prices, so there was no way I was going to walk away from them and they should keep us in meat options for a while, as we don't eat meat based meals more than two or three times per week.

I did venture into the charity shop this trip and found another top for work, (I've got plenty now) a top to wear in the summer months and a dress, which might be an option for a family wedding next year. I spent £12, so am still within my monthly £25 charity shop budget. (Just!) It will be my last visit to a charity shop this month though.

I felt quite tired when I eventually got home and didn't do much. I made some supper and then we settled down to watch the second series of The Capture on Netflix.

After not sleeping well on Tuesday night, due to my chest being congested, I woke up feeling really tired on Wednesday.  Luckily, I didn't need to be anywhere or do anything, and it was just as well, as it was raining all morning. As a consequence, I had a much needed lie in and finished reading my current book, no. 3 read this year. It was another book about sustainability and was good. Very easy to pick up and put down.

I had a late breakfast and then went back to bed. I still wasn't feeling well enough for a run or even a walk. It was a bit of a lost day if I'm honest. In between catching up on the sleep I lost in the night, I read a couple of chapters of a new book and then got up again around 4pm and had a late lunch.

Some good news, was that OH ordered the bricks to pave our back garden today, which is exciting. It will make such a difference when it is finally done. The lettuce seedlings that I transplanted the other week are doing well and seem to be thriving in their new seed trays. I'm just glad they survived the transition, but they're a long way off being big enough to plant out.

OH made a curry for supper later and we continued watching the series we'd started the night before. I really can't wait to shake off this cold virus.

On Thursday, I didn't need to be anywhere again, so I had a quiet day at home. I did manage to get up, showered, dressed and do some jobs around the house before heading back to bed for a couple of hours in the afternoon.

Another lost kind of day, but better than the day before.

I was due at work on Friday night, so I had a short lie in on Friday morning and then got up and ready. I decided to try to do something productive today and walked into our local town centre to the building society, as I needed to hand in a form they'd sent me and also sort out some changes to one of my accounts. This had been on my to do list for a couple of months. I managed to get everything I needed to done and found out I'd been given the free £50 thank you to customers that had been promised, which I was very grateful for.  Free money is always welcome. 

I then hopped on a bus to a local fabric warehouse to try to look for some fabric for the dress I want to make at my sewing classes, which start next week. I found a very pretty green ditsy floral print, which may do the job. I'll see what my tutor says about it. I think it might be polyester, which isn't ideal, but it may be viscose. The fabric warehouse were vague about it, but it did only cost £3 per metre and I ended up with 5 metres for the price of 4. Here's a picture:

If I don't decide to use it on the course, I may try to use it to make the same dress at home. 

By the time I got home it was lunchtime, so I made some lunch and then went back to bed for a couple of hours before getting ready for work. I dosed myself up with whatever I could before work and luckily it was very busy, so the shift passed very quickly. 

At the moment, my modus operandi at work is to just get through every shift as best I can and come home. This virus is nothing like I've ever experienced before. It wouldn't surprise me if it's some new strain of the dreaded C virus, that doesn't show up on the old tests. I don't think I've passed it on to anyone at work though, as far as I can tell, so maybe it's not as infectious and OH didn't suffer as badly, so maybe it affects people differently. I wouldn't wish it on anyone though.

On Saturday, I had a lie in as I was gripped by a strange vivid dream. When I woke up it was 9.30am. I eventually went down for breakfast and hung out downstairs for a while before getting ready. Once ready, OH and I headed to the allotment for an hour or so, he to mound up the potatoes and me to do more weeding and tidying up in corners I'd not got to on my previous visit. I did take a photo this visit:

It's all pretty tidy and growing reasonably well. What may look like weeds on parts of the plot, are actually poppies that have self seeded that I have left to see what they are like. If we need to use the space before they have flowered, I will pull them out.

When we got home, I decided that today was the day that I was finally going to make my Easter crispy buns. I'd forgotten to make them when LB was home, then was ill over Easter and this was the first time that I felt I wanted to make them. I love eating these buns, even though they are very simple and child like. They do hit the spot. Here's a picture:

I've got plenty of cornflakes and mini eggs to make more, I just need more chocolate to melt. It was probably a positive sign at the end of a bit of a lost week that I felt motivated to make them. Let's hope so.

The other positive at the end of this lost week, was that I got OH to print off more templates for my patchwork projects. Cutting them out was about as much as I could manage over the last couple of days, but at least now I can continue with these projects, both of which had ground to a halt. I spent the remainder of Saturday afternoon making new hexies, which is always a happy pasttime.

We ended the week watching a new movie out on Netflix called Emily, about Emily Bronte and her nove Wuthering Heights. It was really good.

I hope you haven't had a lost week like me this week.