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Bank holiday weekend
I go back to work tonight but having used up all my energy yesterday doing housework and ferrying Raphael around I had promised myself that I would do a longer walk with the dogs today, but then I saw the traffic passing my gate, and decided that I would wait for a quieter day, and today will just be the 90 minutes around here. People are appearing ( Read more... ) -
Last week
Last week I went up to stay at Chabaneix, it is necessary for me to gradually get used to staying there, although it often causes me to feel sad, because time has marched on, and the Creuse has changed even if only slightly, and I have changed a lot, and hate being reminded of the fact through the old photos. Even sadder I think are the photos of ( Read more... ) -
Changing
I used to be someone who hated leads on dogs, I didn’t use one unless there was no avoiding it and I could be unpleasant if I was called out on it. But I have changed, I read a post on Facebook, some woman moaning about some dogs that chased her cat, and I felt the usual irritation... except gradually I kept thinking about the situation, how I ( Read more... ) -
Things I hate about nights
I am not by nature a nocturnal person, left to my own devices I like to get up early and go to bed early so night duty feels like an imposition physically. It is made worse by the fact that our fixed rota gives us a single night off in between four nights and three nights. I am sure that everyone can see that one night off does not equal one day ( Read more... ) -
Deconfinement
I had promised myself a long walk, and that is what I did. In the end it was around 15 km walking over the two valleys from Rocamadour and at one point both dogs disappeared while I was photographing a flower and didn’t come back for at least 15 minutes. When they did appear they were both absolutely exhausted so they must have been chasing ( Read more... ) -
Oh frabjious day!
Yesterday I was walking around the stade with the dogs and my phone rang. It was work, and they said that as two people have returned from sick leave would I like to have some time off. Yay indeed! Suddenly my gloomy mood was gone, and I went home and swept the house, tidied the yard and went with Raph to the Leclerc at Figeac for a change. We ( Read more... ) -
What I am reading Wednesday
The Shedunnit book club read for May is Margery Allingham’s book The Tiger in the Smoke. I wasn’t looking forward to it but actually I really enjoyed it. I started yesterday evening and finished it today, and I managed to go for a two and a half hour walk as well. Of course nothing else happened, but it’s my day off, so I am forgiving myself about ( Read more... ) -
Walking
We have been on a couple of walks a bit further away, on Friday we went to the Moulin du Saut and today we walked around St Jean Lagineste. Both were just under two hours which fits well with my schedule and the ups and downs are good exercise. I am sharing some photos from Friday.
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A day in my life 25th April
This was a group on lj where people took random pictures through the day to share their lives. I tried a few times but generally failed to get the whole way through!
New try yesterday.
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Small embarrassing rant
I am not a frontline worker and I have barely seen a Covid patient, I am just an ordinary nurse working nights in the relative comfort of a psychiatric hospital. I live in a small village with easy access to rural walks. I have so much to be grateful for ( Read more... )