After returning to London from Norwich on Monday evening, it was a case of unpacking the car, unpacking bags, opening windows, watering plants in the garden, doing laundry and just generally settling back into life in London. It felt good to be home. The first thing I did was to put on the air conditioner for an hour, such a luxury. There was very little food in the house, but I cobbled together something on toast for supper and was in bed by 10pm, shattered.
After a reasonable night's sleep, I woke up feeling more refreshed on Tuesday. I had a busy day ahead of me, with quite a few things to do. Firstly, I opened up the windows to get the morning air circulating and then first stop was the allotment, which hadn't been watered for 3 sunny days. I was a bit worried that it might be a bit worse for wear, especially the tomatoes, so I got up early and spent an hour harvesting and and watering. It was good to see that just about everything was okay, save a few trampled plants (the foxes, I think). My dahlias are now on the point of flowering, which is very exciting. I gathered a nice little food haul, so I'll have a little less to buy at the shops this week. Here's a picture of what I harvested:
I was booked into my usual Zumba class at 10am which was good. When I got back, I had some lunch, watched a bit of YouTube and then had a shower and got changed ready to go out and do some grocery shopping for the week. I decided to go local this week, as I'd done so much driving over the weekend that I didn't feel like driving out of town.
I didn't spend as much on the shopping this week, which was good. It was hot out and the roads were busy, so I was glad to get it done and come home and chill for the rest of the afternoon, watching the tennis.
On Wednesday, I had a bit of a lie in after not sleeping too well. I guess it's probably the heat. I dragged myself out of bed before 10am and headed straight to the allotment to water, before it got too hot. There were only a couple of tomatoes to harvest.
When I got home, I decided to harvest the blueberries from the bush in our garden. It is laden with berries. Here's a picture of the bowl I filled:
They've gone straight into the freezer for OH. He likes berries. I don't always reach for them, as I like citrus fruits and peaches/nectarines. There's still more to harvest, but I need to rotate the bush in it's pot to get to them, so that will get done another day.
Other than the allotment, which is just around the corner, I didn't need to go anywhere, always my favourite kind of day. I didn't need to put on any makeup and I could potter at home to my heart's content, especially when it's hot like it was this week and after I've been away for a few days. There were a couple of small jobs I need to do around the house, but otherwise the day was mine to do as I saw fit.
After lunch, and having done the jobs, I decided to have a play with my new toy, the vintage hand crank sewing machine. What started as a play, turned into a 3 hour sewing session, but I'll tell you more about that in another post.
Thursday, I was booked into a class at the gym again which was good. In the afternoon, I watched the Ladies semi finals at Wimbledon with LB and spent another couple of hours using my new vintage sewing machine.
I then had lots of chores to do in the evening when it got cooler, i.e. opening all the windows to cool the house down, watering the garden, watering the allotment, putting the rubbish out, harvesting more blueberries from the garden, making supper and doing the dishes, before settling down to pin the binding on the shed quilt whilst watching TV.
On Friday, I woke up after getting a reasonable amount of sleep for once. I had a bit of a lie in and then got a cool shower and got ready for the day. I didn't have any plans or anything much that I needed to do. It was way too hot for cleaning, but I did put some laundry on. Every day this week has just been about surviving the heat. I'm happy to do very little if it means staying cool.
Saturday, was still hot. LB was working all day. I got up and ready and changed the bedding before it got too hot. I needed to got to the allotment to water in the morning, but was a bit late setting out, so it was hotter than I'd like. I harvested a few things that needed picking, before watering everything. I'm getting a bit fed up of all the watering. I will be glad when OH gets back and can help with it.
Whilst out, I popped to a local shop to get a few bits we needed and some snacks and drinks for the football. When I got back, I needed to sit in front of the fan for an hour to cool down. I processed and weighed all the produce from the allotment, did a load of laundry and hung it out in the garden. I then spent most of the day watching Wimbledon finals on TV, whilst hand sewing. I'm not a great one for watching sport, but when I'm stuck in the house trying to stay cool, it seemed like the most obvious thing to do, especially with it being the final few days of Wimbledon and the later stages of the World Cup. I couldn't help getting caught up in all the excitement.
On Sunday, LB was working all day again, so I had the house to myself. I decided not to go to the gym. The heat put me off. Instead, I decided to finally get around to doing some cleaning. It wasn't the best weather to be cleaning, as I got quite hot. I began with the bathroom, which was long overdue. It took a couple of hours, but I did a good deep clean. I then cleaned, vacuumed and mopped my way down the stairs, hallway and vestibule. I also vacuumed and mopped the kitchen floor, hung some washing out and took it in again. It felt good to finally get at least some cleaning done. In between, I was keeping updated on the Men's singles final at Wimbledon.
Thankfully, it was a lot cooler in the evening. I didn't water the garden or allotment tonight. I figured they'd be okay until the morning. It's been a long hot week and I don't think we're in for any respite any time soon, looking at the forecast over the next couple of weeks. It's just as well that I'm starting to get used to it a bit more now.
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