Happy Monday! I’m starting the week a feeling a lot better than I did last week but I’m still croaky and coldy. This is asthma life. Oh the coughing….I was in the office three days last week and I know that I really got on everyone’s nerves with my constant coughing.
To add to the joy, I woke up on Saturday morning (5am) with a migraine, I obviously hadn’t digested any food overnight and a cough turned to throwing up. I am pretty happy living alone but when you have been sick in the bath and have a migraine, you could really do with someone else in the house….
So Saturday was grim and really, really hot but Sunday was much better, there was an allotment trip and it’s the first time I’d been there in about two weeks and it did not suck as much as I thought it would.
We did some food shopping and I got food prep done, in addition to ironing and laundry. So I’m feeling that I’m well set up for the week.
That is the extent of my plans, I will probably be prepping allotment stuff and baking for the Open Day on Sunday. If you’re London based, please think about coming along and seeing the plots..
Here are this week’s links
We didn’t count on me being miserable with cold. We left my flat about 10am on Thursday and arrived at the hotel about 2pm. We found the Askham Top park and ride into York and wondered around a bit. We found York Gin shop and bought some snacky bits for dinner. We got back to the hotel about 5-ish and that was me pretty much done for the night. 
The next day, we were up early and did the park and ride again. This time we had more of a walk around. 
From there we walked to the Minster and to 
It’s a contradiction of a house, it was bought by Frank Green in 1897, and was originally three houses, Green ‘restored’ it and he wanted it to look as though it had been there for a while and had gone through change. So there is a completely inauthentic Great Hall, where a copy of a Van Dyke of Charles I sits about a table owned by Oliver Cromwell’s aunt.
Green was rich and very odd (he didn’t like to see his servants or any dust, so every individual coal had to be wrapped in paper. He also used to inspect the drawers in the kitchen at night and pull everything out for the servants to do again if they weren’t arranged to his standards! It will come as no surprise to learn that he never married! The House was the first given to the National Trust with it’s collection. It was really interesting and I’m glad we got to see it.
After that, we wondered about a bit more and I bought a new shirt (I managed to spill coffee and egg yolk down the one I was wearing!) and Ma needed to buy wine for her holiday with the ladies so we did that and then as I was flagging, we went back to the hotel. I was in bed at 9pm (again).
I caught the train home on Saturday and spent the rest of the weekend working on feeling better and trying not to cough! Sick or not, I’m still me so I did buy some gin when I was in York but I haven’t had any yet. On Friday night I managed one premixed gin and tonic and then retired defeated, I don’t know who I am anymore!
Mascara is a product that I tend not to change. I was devoted to Benefit Bal Gal Lash but in an emergency switched to a Bourjois which was just as good until it got discontinued. So I switched to a Revlon waterproof mascara that seemed pretty waterproof, it didn’t come off when I cried, but it did used to transfer daily to under my eyes (and let me tell you, my dark circles don’t need much more help. So back to the drawing board and a list of other people’s recommendations.
Last week it rained a lot and the forecast isn’t much better for this week!
Nic Dempsey 