Homespun Day

Well gentle readers it has been a bit of a homespun day today, but no less enjoyable for that.

I started the day with some cleaning and sprucing up, with the first wash on before I had even opened my eyes properly. It has been a full day. Breakfast was some of my own handmade Compost Jelly on posh Marks and Sparks toasted bread with a delicious decaff coffee. I served my breakfast on my current favourite plate, are you like me and have fav plates and mugs and cups for specific things? It's an old Habitat plate which cost me all of 25p from a charity shop. My coffee mug also cost me 25 p from the same shop, sorry I didn't get a pic of that, maybe next time. A slow perusal through some recycled Country Living mags which a friend swops with me for my Norfolk Life mags. Before beetling off for an hours swim. Not before I had stripped the bed though and put wash number 2 on. A goodly amount of gardening on my return. Where delving around the garden I managed to find just enough blooms to make up a nice vase for the living room.

. I've a few more jobs to do before a light supper later, I think a glass or two of wine is in order tonight as I have been extra good this week with lots of exercise. I have now lost 20lbs in weight and I am carrying on with my health restoring journey for another 4lbs, when I will hit my own second target. Wash number 3 is on. It has been a little sunny today so I haven't needed to use the drier, which I hate doing. Things smell so much nicer drying on the line and of course it's cheaper too. I will leave you with a delightful find I made a couple of weeks ago. A rather lovely oil painting of a vase of flowers. £1 only from another local clearance charity shop. I don't always find such wonderful things, but I do check Charity shops on a regular basis. I will keep this painting but if I do sell anything on that I find in the shops, I always make an extra donation to the charity.