After a couple of days of feeling really grotty, and wondering if I had a case of pigness, I woke yesterday feeling heaps better. Not right, but better.
So I did a stack of stuff with the winemaking – sent the gooseberries on their way to wine heaven, bottled the first batch of red ( after the surprisingly arduous task of scrubbing the labels of six bottles), re-racked two demijohns of apple wine, started some elderflower. All this means sterlising and cleaning as you go, and takes a surprisingly long time. And I left some of it on the patio table for cleaning and putting away this morning, and the torrential rain woke me at 5 a.m. Bah.
And we had lunch in St Werberghs, then walked the length of Gloucester Road and back – got a nice lamp with a big magnifier in Maplins, which will clamp on to the bookshelves and allow me to do tapestry again. Got some supplies from the wine shop, which is a glorious Arkwrightish emporium. Got some Somerset strawberries (this has to be the last of the year, surely). Got a thermometer, as astonishingly our medicine cabinet plastic box didn’t contain one.
Ate sossidge for supper, followed by strawberries and home made brownies and ice cream. Watched – well, I didn’t really, because it was so shite – Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. What a truly dreadful movie. Went to bed, slept like a log.
Woke this morning feeling not so bright again, which is maddening as I am so far behind with work, having lost two days this week, and wanted to do some today, and I’m having a half day tomorrow as we are going to see Richard Thompson somewhere in the wilds of Wellsh Wales near Swansea. I just want to sleep all the time. I think I might have done too much yesterday 🙁
My sincere sympathies, we’re both trying to shake a sort-of-a-cold thing, which seems to come and go in a very arbitrary way. Hitting me particularly as my immune system is still recovering from the exciting time over the last month or so. Sleep is the obvious solution, though, you should have many naps.
I hope you’re going to Pontardawe Arts Centre, which is one of our favourite venues, a miniature jewel of a theatre. We do an annual schlep there to see Bellowhead and never fail to have a great time, appalling acoustics at the sides of the Circle notwithstanding.
Thanks – had a nap this afternoon.
We are indeed going to Pontardawe – for the first time.
Get there early, parking’s a nightmare. Best place is round the corner from the Arts Centre in the municipal car park.
Noted. Is there anywhere to grab a bite around there?
Fast food joints mainly and a couple of Chinese/Indian sit-down places. Haven’t tried them.
The Arts Centre is pretty much smack bang in the town centre. It’s quite bitty getting there – off the roundabout for the town centre and a more or less immediate left turn up a residential street, left at the end and you get to a T junction with the Arts Centre on your left, turn right there and the municipal car park is around 100 m up on your right.
Cheers – my trusty TomTom will get me there, I’m sure.
Enjoy the gig.