Happy Tuesday!

For anyone following along with my menopause journey. The increased oestrogen patch is not working as the doctor hoped. Last Tuesday I had a migraine (and some breakthrough bleeding and on Saturday some proper bleeding and cramps. I tell you this so if you are a middle aged or know anyone middle aged, remember to be kind to yourself or them because this sucks. It’s the sheer unreliability of my body at the moment, I’m doing all the right things but they don’t appear to be solving the issue. It’s frustrating and dehabilitating and I am fed up!

That and my more scatty brain, left me thinking I’d scheduled this post for yesterday morning but I had not, so Tuesday is the new Monday!

Aside from my body throwing me curveballs, last week was fairly productive. I finished my management reporting stuff and cleared the way for a bigger more engaging piece of work this week, assuming nothing else blows up in the meantime!

I got to Mum’s on Wednesday night and the less we say about the journey home the better, but the Great West Road is not a nice place to be at the best of times and certainly not at 10:45 on a Wednesday night. I went over there on Saturday for shopping, cleaning and ironing! And of course, giving the parent some social interaction and outdoor time!

At home and on the plot I’m getting there, I had a big push on the weekend and things are starting to function as they should. I gave the plant in the bathroom some tough love in the form of a brutal haircut and a soak. Which in turn led to having to give the bathroom a deeper clean.

It was fruit and veg week this week, and the fruit box was glorious. This week, as well as the usual bananas, apples, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and avocado, I got cherries, peaches, nectarines and apricots. I love summer! So naturally, I’ve bought more apricots for jam and cherries for cocktail cherries and maybe jam but mostly eating

Plans for this week are more of the same. I have a first aid course on Thursday and I will be watering every day, but I’m hoping that I can manage some actual productivity, even though all I really want to do is play on the allotment!

At the weekend, Christelle and I are doing something, I find I don’t mind being outdoors when it’s hot and C wants to find somewhere with air conditioning. We’ll work it out!

Have a good week!