A blog in the life

It’s Saturday. Here’s what’s on my to-do list for the day:

• Prepare prayers and reading for tomorrow’s service. I can pray extempore but it makes more sense to other human beings if I write it down beforehand!
• Do the handwashing (in the machine of course)
• Plant some cat grass and sweet peas, if it’s not raining
• Lop back the fried egg plant (cistus?) as it’s swamping the wee rhododendron
• Add 2 new DVDs to my LibraryThing catalogue (Friends 7 and Red Dwarf 5 - I’m a slow collector…)
• Record money spent. My other half keeps a careful check on our incomings and outgoings.
• Enter scores online for the latest Hotel Chocolat delivery. Our favourite were the honey and caramel tasting batons, although I thought the cranberry truffle was pretty knockout too.
• Recycling paper and card. We generate a lot of this but fortunately they do collect it.
• Ring my great-aunt in Liverpool and tell her I’m coming down in June for the UC&R conference. Hoping to extend my stay seeing family.
• Finish my ‘Kissing with confidence’ presentation for East Midlands CDG/EMBOC AGM.
• Start planning CDG Scottish Division session for Peebles day and writing related article for Information Scotland.
• Do some recorder practice. Trying to regain the agility of my lost youth.
• Get the Spanish books out - I’m going to my dad’s in Spain next Friday and I still have German in my head from the Dortmund trip!
• Do some sit-ups. Exercise has gone out of the window recently but I am beginning to resemble Pooh Bear (”Honey or condensed milk on your bread?” “Both please, but you needn’t bother about the bread”)
• Watch Doctor Who OF COURSE. Agatha Christie story tonight, so a double treat for me as I was a big Christie fan when I was around age 11 or 12. Sadly I stock edited most of them years ago except for a few old favourites for reading when in bed with the flu.

Tomorrow is another blog…