Posts from 2026-07.
24 July 2026
🏊🏻♀️ Managed to time swimming so that I had the big pool almost to myself.
👓 Lost my glasses but found them where they had blown under a garden chair.
🍇The hedgerows are loaded with blackberries. Going back tomorrow with a tub!
22 July 2026
🛬 Managed the airport pickup within the ridiculously tight limit where parking is merely bloody expensive.
🧳 Which means the offspring is home for a while and it’s lovely to have them here.
🌳 A benefit of this dry spell is that even the super muddy footpath is usable.
20 July 2026
🌞 We’re back to much more normal UK summer temperatures and it’s really nice. Hopefully the rain in the weekend’s forecast actually turns up though.
🚲 It’s the beginning of the school summer holidays here and there were so many less cars on the road today.
📄Got some paperwork sorted out. One of those things you put off for months and then find it takes ten minutes.
19 July 2026
😌My mind was addled and annoyed when I left home for a bike ride but calm when I returned.
🦋So many little wildlife spottings on the cycle paths today. Butterflies and other hovering insects, rabbits, mice, all sorts of birds.
☁ Clouds: giving me both pretty things to look at and shade from the sun.
16 July 2026
🧅Homemade cheese & onion rolls were really tasty.
🧾VAT return sorted out and submitted.
🚲Took my partner’s bike to the bike workshop and they were able to repair it in 5 minutes.
13 July 2026
🕊️It’s really peaceful in my garden on a weekday. None of the neighbours seem to be doing building work at the moment.
🧾A panic where I thought I’d lost a load of bank statements was completely baseless and I had just forgotten how months worked (I’m not going to dwell on that last bit too much!)
🌳 Found another shady reading spot in the garden - it’s small but I’m doing a good job of chasing the shade around it.
10 July 2026
⏳Created some time by getting up and doing stuff earlier whilst it was cooler.
🌅 Really nice watching the sun go down with a glass of wine and a book. Feel like I’m on holiday but I’m in my back garden.
🤔Reminiscing about holidays as a result.
8 July 2026
🧦 Sorted out my underwear drawer and threw out all the threadbare items.
🏖️Bought a new garden parasol, it’s not quite what I wanted but what I mostly want at the moment is extra shade!
I also now own a hoe with which to battle the weeds.
7 July 2026
🧼Cleaned my laptop screen.
🛒Got the supermarket shopping done.
💻Opened up a project I’d abandoned and had some ideas for what to do with it next.
6 July 2026
🧵 Arranged a day trip to sewing show with my mum.
👩🏻💻Did a software upgrade that’s been waiting months for me to get to it and all was ok.
🍓 Harvested (and ate) 7 strawberries from my hanging basket.
3 July 2026
📆 I started the day thinking it was Thursday so Friday evening has been an unexpected surprise. (I think I thought yesterday was Wednesday. I remember it being Tuesday for definite before that. I’ve no idea what happened to actual Wednesday.)
💾Caching.
🥃White chocolate liqueur, since it’s Friday after all!
2 July 2026
⚡️Lots of negatively priced electricity (because it’s windy).
🧺About a squillion loads of laundry done with the aid of that electricity.
⛲️ Azul: Queen’s Garden appeared on BoardGameArena so that’s my new distracting obsession.
1 July 2026
💡Disconnected the outside light that’s been stuck on for months and had started buzzing.
📺 Got the TV aerial taken down and removed by a lad we spotted doing a similar job for a neighbour.
🌱 Another wheelie bin worth of weeds removed from the garden. The bushes trying to encroach beyond our fence onto the pavement have almost been tamed.
