The second half of the week started with a session at the gym on Thursday morning. I didn't get there until 11am, but I had a good work out and then headed home for lunch.
I was happy to potter at home in the afternoon. I needed to put away some laundry, put on a load to wash and then hang it out, tidy up the kitchen, which was a bit messy and then tidy upstairs a bit, where things were starting to build up in clutter hot spots.
OH was out most of the day at a professional development day, so it was just LB and myself at home. Later in the afternoon/evening, I did more hand stitching on the gilet. I almost finished it. It just needed the pockets sewing on and the ties. I did some of it whilst watching this week's Celebrity Race Across the World, which was good.
Friday, was a completely free day for me. I wanted to go for a walk but it was quite rainy all day, so I didn't make it out. Instead, I stayed home and worked on some sewing projects, trying to finish a couple of the ones I'm currently working on.
A couple of the projects were alterations and I did some work on these, although I didn't finish them, as they ended up being more difficult than I thought. I did manage to finish making the gilet, which felt good, so at least one project got completed. I also started and completed a new small project, making a couple of items that I created a pattern for the other day. I'll post about these and the gilet in a separate monthly sewing post.
On Saturday morning, I didn't get to the gym first thing, as I was late getting up and just wasn't feeling it. I was also due at the allotment at 11am, to help dismantle the shed and clear up lots of rubbish around it, ready to take to the tip and for a new shed to be erected. OH headed down there first and I followed and hour later taking our nextdoor neighbour's dog with me, as we were looking after him again for the day.
By the time I got down there, the shed was already down and OH and a couple of other plotholders were clearing up the detritus. It was going well until a man from the flats next door came out shouting at us about the banging. He got pretty abusive and made threats of physical violence, which wasn't nice. We ended up locking ourselves into the site, in case he got any ideas about carrying out some of the threats he was making.
Anyway, after he'd gone we carried on and within 3 hours we'd completely cleared the area ready for OH to go back another day and level it before the erection of the new shed. He'll probably do that some time next week. Here's a photo of the cleared area:
As usual, I forgot to take a before picture. OH and I will be taking all the rubbish to the tip, once we've booked a slot and hired a van, another job for next week. A couple of the plotholders have recently left, so there are a couple of plots up for grabs, but I don't know if they've got anyone interested in them.
Once we'd done everything we could at the site, we came home for lunch. I needed to do a bit of banking and pay some bills in the afternoon. I then spent the rest of the afternoon lying on the sofa with next doors' dog watching Steel Magnolias, which was lovely.
On Sunday, I got up very slowly. I'd had a late night, as I'd decided to stay up and watch Bridget Jones - Edge of Reason, which was on the TV. I do like these films. They remind me of a particular time in my life. Anyway, as a consequence, I slept in and had a very leisurely morning reading in bed.
OH came back from a cycle ride with bad news. His phone had accidentally fallen out of his pocket whilst on a ride and he'd lost it. We hoped that he might be able to track it and go back for it, but on trying to do so, he quickly became aware that someone had picked it up and was moving with it. He immediately started to contact his credit card companies, as he uses telephone banking apps on his phone and one card had already been used, which he subsequently blocked/cancelled. What could have been a quite simple matter of retrieving his phone, had it fallen into the hands of somebody honest, became a lost afternoon of trying to secure his cards, the data on his phone and his sim.
We are not sure whether information has been mined from his phone, possibly to be utilised for unscrupulous purposes, only time will tell. He then had to go out to the local mall to purchase a new phone and sim. Herein lies a cautionary tale about telephone banking, one which has always been a concern of mine, hence I don't use it and after this, I am unlikely to, ever, no matter the inconvenience of having to carry cards. Sadly, there are so many unscrupulous and down right dishonest people out there who are happy to prey/capitalise on a moment of absent mindedness or an accidental loss as in this case. Such parasites are everywhere and can cause enormous inconvenience and potential financial loss.
Whilst he was out, I did some sewing to calm my anxiety about the whole situation and continued with a bit of weaving too, whilst I contemplated the state of the world that we now inhabit.
Not a good end to the week, but such is life sometimes.
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