In recent years, I have embraced sleepwear, I refused to wear clothes in bed until my 30’s and now I am a firm wearer of pyjamas. I generally find it difficult to get night ‘jamas though.
I don’t want teddy bears or floral prints on my normal clothes and as I use my ‘jamas as lounge wear (when I was recovering from the osteotomy, and mostly housebound, I just had a new pair of ‘jamas very day and the laundry was very easy) I’m fussy about what passes muster, so I spend lots of time wondering around shops muttering about how I don’t want anything frilly to sleep in! However, you may have noticed that it’s been hot around these parts and ‘jamas are too hot to be sleeping in.
Enter my new favourite nightie!
It’s not appearing on the website right now but it’s perfect, relatively plain soft washes well and lightweight and cool. It was £12.50 from Marks and Spencer and I’ve been known to wash it in the morning on a quick wash so it’ll be ready to wear when I get home, because I do wear it as lounge wear too!
Slightly more patterned but also very comfy is this one, which I also own!
I’m counting down the days until I have a whole week off, but I have a ton of things to do at work before that.
They were at Junipalooza but I didn’t get around to visiting them, so I don’t really know much about this, except that you can buy it in Sainsburys.
Other than harvest, water and feed which takes forever, we did other things. We pulled up the sweet peas, they had aphids on them, and the California poppies that were taking over the rhubarb and also beginning to look a bit messy and thus were offending Ma’s sensibilities…
I also planted out some more mint in the bath and trimmed the tomatoes some more, tomatoes are a labour intensive crop but they do reward the effort.
I’m impatient for the cucumbers and tomatoes to really start coming in but the work list for next week is pretty light (for a change)
However, life, with work, the flat, the allotment, having friends and a life generally, I don’t get to spend all that much time doing what I love. Also that life has been pretty busy, it’s summer and I seem to spend all of my time watering and socialising and not much time at home. All of this is good, I wouldn’t want anyone to thing that my life is no fun but last week, I hit a wall. I felt like my house and my life needed a tidy. So I took Friday and Monday off to sort it out (and spend some time lounging about with a book!)
And you get to see the wobbly bridge full of people, like a traffic jam…
Also notable this week, Christelle’s amazing orchid, it’s so perfect it looks fake.
And Gabi the wonder dog. She is a boxer, but given that she’s only little (nine months) and a boxer, she’s actually very chilled, once she gets over her initial bouncing. Also Mike and Christelle have the most realistic fake grass, I’ve ever seen…
It’s been a very social week for me, I was at Mike and Christelle’s on Saturday night and at Kathy and Adam’s on Sunday (where I also got to see some other friends), so I’m a tiny bit peopled out and looking forward to a day of sorting out and straightening out the flat.
Nic Dempsey 