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You know when is a really bad time to move a 50 litre bag of wet compost? When you've just washed your hands and put a ton of handcream on.
Apart from that, pretty productive day. Took the car to the local car wash for the first time (I'd been putting it off in a weird attack of what Germans call 'threshold fear' - that's when your're afraid of going somewhere new for no better reason than that it is new). The car wash was actually great fun, much better than the one we used to go to in Reading. There's two guys there guiding you in and hosing gunk and leaves out of nooks and crannies with pressure washers (I can never get all the leaves out of the bit where my windscreen wipers sit), the wash is thorough and gentle, at the end the car gets gently dried of by something that looks like giant terry towelling strips, and then you drive into a big hall where you can park your car and vacuum it. There's also sinks and air hoses for blowing water out of areas you can't reach by hand. They even have a parents corner with a little play area that you can put your kids into while you are detailing your car.
I also finally managed to go to the garden centre and buy a big tub to re-pot my nectarine tree into. Overdue, the poor thing.
Oh, and Nathan mowed the lawn today. It had been bugging him every time he went through, so he said 'guess I should do something about that , then'. And so he did. And he swept the path. I think he may have levered me out of another gumption trap. I'm feeling oddly motivated to do something about the state of my garden now. The weather has been so crap, I have planted nothing this year, not even runner beans or peas.
Em is off for her piano lesson (teacher needed to move two dates), and tomorrow she's got her friend Erik coming over for a week.
Aw, she just rang to tell me that she's not lying crushed under the wheels of a car somewhere, she's just having a glass of sparkling elderberry cordial with her piano teacher and chatting. I'm so glad those two get along so well.
Apart from that, pretty productive day. Took the car to the local car wash for the first time (I'd been putting it off in a weird attack of what Germans call 'threshold fear' - that's when your're afraid of going somewhere new for no better reason than that it is new). The car wash was actually great fun, much better than the one we used to go to in Reading. There's two guys there guiding you in and hosing gunk and leaves out of nooks and crannies with pressure washers (I can never get all the leaves out of the bit where my windscreen wipers sit), the wash is thorough and gentle, at the end the car gets gently dried of by something that looks like giant terry towelling strips, and then you drive into a big hall where you can park your car and vacuum it. There's also sinks and air hoses for blowing water out of areas you can't reach by hand. They even have a parents corner with a little play area that you can put your kids into while you are detailing your car.
I also finally managed to go to the garden centre and buy a big tub to re-pot my nectarine tree into. Overdue, the poor thing.
Oh, and Nathan mowed the lawn today. It had been bugging him every time he went through, so he said 'guess I should do something about that , then'. And so he did. And he swept the path. I think he may have levered me out of another gumption trap. I'm feeling oddly motivated to do something about the state of my garden now. The weather has been so crap, I have planted nothing this year, not even runner beans or peas.
Em is off for her piano lesson (teacher needed to move two dates), and tomorrow she's got her friend Erik coming over for a week.
Aw, she just rang to tell me that she's not lying crushed under the wheels of a car somewhere, she's just having a glass of sparkling elderberry cordial with her piano teacher and chatting. I'm so glad those two get along so well.