Hello Friends
I must start with the photos I forgot to share yesterday, of last evening's spookily strange sky. It was as if someone had drawn a line across the sky just above the distant horizon and coloured it in grey. In the lower photo, it looks like the distant ocean, but it isn't at all, it's the low cloud.
There was something quite unsettling, maybe because it looked like a sandstorm as one is approaching from the desert?
I must get my act together today! I got up with my usual routine, then just after 9:00 a.m. I remembered I needed to revert to Welsh Dragon mode to phone the Council yet again over the bin. If for one moment I thought I was in the wrong I would drop it, but I do not like to be accused of something that I don't think I did. Also, it was the patronising "we will do you a favour and overlook it this time and send someone out to collect it, but don't let it happen again" attitude that has got my back up too. So I sent off the email, and phoned up to spend over an hour and nine minutes on hold. I was originally number 48 in the queue. A complete waste of time, I am now waiting to be called back. We all know what that means.
Then, having got up with such bounce, I suddenly found myself two hours later waking up from a long nap. What a disappointment, I really thought I'd be awake all morning. Sigh. Oh, well, it could have been worse. Vinted sales packed, labelled and on their way. Last night I "favourited" two more Sea Salt tunics {they do the same style in many different colours}and both sellers had come back offering to sell them to me for lower than their original prices. This pattern seems to be a thing on Vinted. *Note to self: don't pay full price without offering a lower one first!
Bank Holidays always throw me, so it will be of no surprise that I forgot today is Tuesday and it is the first of my Zoom meetings with my Herbal Medicine group. It's at 7:00 p.m. and it's going to be a proper squish to get everything in so that I can eat, take my meds at the proper time, get my walk in, and tie up other loose ends that need to be done before it begins. I might have to make couscous for tonight as it can be done in under ten minutes and is quick to eat too. I have halloumi or tempeh to pick for my protein, and also some rather small fresh figs which will be a nice addition.
Later on now, MUCH later on as it will be after 10:00 p.m. when I post this. I got side tracked then I got my act together and went for my walk, taking a slightly different route again. Here is some of the lovely bucolic scenery that surrounds me.
Here is an example of another hazard. Narrow pavement {sidewalk} and someone has spotted traffic cones which block the path just to stop people parking in front of their house.
oh, stop your moaning, Minnie! Look at this . . . only in west Wales where the wild wind whips and withers wutheringly will you find the trees tell you the direction of the prevailing gale force winter winds!
Moving on, I bumped into a friend who is taking the same "witchy Welsh wisdom" Wild Welsh Herbal Medicine course as I am, we had a chat. Then I made a new friend, Pat, who lives very nearby, and I eventually got home with just enough time to cook some quick cook couscous and to burn my tempeh. Bah! Humbug.
It was time for my zoom meeting. It was AMAZING. It was WONDERFUL. It was MAGICAL. It was like FINALLY COMING HOME TO MY TRIBE.
I have just been out in the garden in the gloaming, picking a few fresh Danadl Poethion for my breakfast smoothie tomorrow. Danadl Poethion, or Stinging Nettles are full of vital nutrient and I am going to make sure I eat plenty of this free food crop that grows in profusion in my unkempt, wildlife friendly garden.
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A strange leaved plant on my way
Until tomorrow
Debbie xx
Tonight's total, with several more promises of support to follow!
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