06:15 up for the bathroom dash, oh the joys of a 45 year old bladder that had two hefty babies dancing upon my pelvic floor weakening it to the point where more than three sneezes and it’s all over. looks like another glorious day ahead. I’m up and ready for work so after a few jobs in the house I head off to the shop.
I had a few orders to make up, one for a lovely couple who should have been getting married today but can’t so he’s sent her a big bunch of flowers that would have been in her bridal bouquet, bless her she was so excited still so I wished her happy non wedding day. I also had a big balloon bouquet for a girls 2nd birthday, it was perfect all sparkles, rainbows and unicorns 🦄 I got to the house and f^*k my luck as soon as it was out of the van 💥 boom the bloody giant rainbow unicorn exploded so had to drive all the way back to the shop for a replacement before delivering to another very happy young lady. I decided to make time to change the shops very sad looking window display, I’ve lost all enthusiasm for the shop it’s just crap watching my business hanging on by its nails but I filled the window with rainbow coloured drapes, rainbow chakra bunting and a rainbow mandala wall hanging with a big heart shaped ivy as my nod to the “thank you NHS” campaign that’s gripped the country.
With no grocery delivery slots available for about the next three years and Giz at home, I ventured into Lidl’s for a BIG shop to avoid going out for the next couple of weeks, I was impressed initially, outside they had a good queuing system, sanitizer for the trolley handles and hand sanitizer this made me feel less apprehensive but inside was a total shit show, there were people everywhere, I tried my best at keeping 2 metres from anyone but they were reaching over each other standing next to you to get things it made me feckin wild I bought a garden rake (like you do when your after essential groceries) the temptation to give people getting too close a good shove with the prongs was very strong!
Big shout out to the guy I saw pull his face mask down to stick a fag in his moronic gob……you sir are a bell end!
Got home about 16:00 to discover my family left to their own devices had done absolutely nothing, the red mist descended but this learning about Buddhism and meditation is working wonders for my temper so after a lot of deep breathing I still wanted to hit Gary with a shovel but kept a lid on it and got him gardening again. We tidied as fast as we could and Fabe untidied even faster so we took the dogs for a long walk around the farm, weirdly we did see another person god knows where they had walked but with about 10 acres between us it didn’t really matter.
I worked on the garden until it was too dark to see, I planted up an old steamer trunk with herbs, and planted a few more shrubs so I could start getting the bark chippings down.
Food was flapjack on the run, a cheese and salad cream roll, Millie put together a fantastic salad with the chicken I slow cooked on the bbq overnight and chorizo with homemade potato salad…….bloody lovely.
After Fabe went to bed we watched a bit of Gavin and Stacey I’m loving the comedy reruns.
Life but not as we know it 