Back home....

Well here I am, Daisy and the dear SO, back from our weekend away and I've just unpacked all the luggage, put everything back where it was before we flew off, and planning to be off early tomorrow morning for we're having our kitchen and bathroom flooring laid down!

So it's back to the property renovation immediately and painting and looking for tiles for said kitchen and bathroom, Ikea to visit again, more painting, curtains to find on Ebay and...whatever else needs to be done to finish off the work we began just the other week, or so it seems to be so!!

Of course, I missed my book club meeting on Monday which was rather a shame, for we'd each planned to do some research into a Greek God of our choosing and talk about him.   I was and had in fact, begun my research  into the Visigoths who have somehow always fascinated me, those ancient peoples of Germanic stock, wandering over and about Europe and, well, I just wanted to know more?

And then, because I did him for my A-level exams a few years ago, I was going to read Keats' poem, An Ode to a Grecian Urn, which would have been fun, ah well, I guess another time will be just as fun!

For next week, we've to read Hilary Mantel's follow-up to Wolf Hall, on the Tudors and King Henry V111, who was an absolute beast, to my way of thinking.  Of course, the Tudors are totally fascinating, still, although they are always being "done" on a screen somewhere; of course, one is always supportive of Anne Boleyn and her destruction was despicable and terrifying, and the following ramifications, the fall-out from, totally upset a great many lives?  Oh dear, I shall have  my work cut-out to get a chunk of this book read before next Monday?

So the weekend was jolly good, the conversation  lively and entertaining, the wine red and the food glorious and colourful, some of which I produced, which was enormously fun for me, for it's been a long time since I've  cooked as I used to do!

Alice had some nice exercise, and we read and read, watched a little TV, and enjoyed a lovely family weekend.

Oh dear, it's bedtime again, and another early start tomorrow.  Actually, I've had fairly early starts all weekend, for I've been able to write, which flowed and positively gushed, as memory and thought coincided.  My work is not yet complete, and it will be harder to finish the first draft of my family story, now we're back home with the property to finish, and a new book to read....

There's another GP this weekend in Korea, I believe, an auction to attend and some cakes to bake?  And I thought I was rushed off my feet when I worked full-time, hey ho, life's fun, don't you think?

Cheerio,

Daisy