Another day, another new week. Today after breakfast of porridge and berries and a mug of tea we will be putting out the garden gate display for the kiddies and dog walkers to enjoy.
Can’t be having them little ones crying because it’s not there, can we.
I’ve parcels to take to the post office so we decided to drive over the moors to Todmorden to send them and then carry on to the garden centre for compost and plants for Mum. She’s inherited the rusty old wheelbarrow that our neighbour Jack was throwing out.
She’s got just the spot for it and will look good once planted up like the one she has had for the last five years.
This is an old photo of the vintage French dress I wore for our outing. I bought it from a little vintage clothes shop in Hebden Bridge a couple of years ago. I’m to embarrassed to show you my Worzel Gummidge hair fully.. Normal service will be resumed soon hopefully.
Back to the garden centre story. We were not comfortable being there at all, despite the staff being pleasant and the distancing arrows and marks throughout. The first thing I noticed was that nobody was cleaning the trolley handles. We did have to use a hand sanitizer on entering the building and I wore a mask for the first time. I have to say anyone having to wear them all day everyday you are to be applauded. I only wore one for about half an hour and found it sweaty and uncomfortable.
We quickly got what we needed, including this little ladybird for our garden gate display, then shot off back over the moor. After dropping Mum’s stuff off it was back home for a cuppa and some lunch. Felt odd not being able to eat out like we would normally have done before coronavirus days.
We are watching a lot of feel good programmes at the moment. Tonight its Channel 4’s documentary on Devon & Cornwall and a dose of Grow Your Own At Home with Alan Titchmarsh. Even though we are not growing our own hee hee. There has been some fantastic programmes on train journeys around the world. Beautiful scenery, amazing trains but you’d have to be rich to afford them.
It’s funny how 5pm onwards things for us then feel quite normal. It’s because we are still doing what we’ve always done of an evening. A cuppa and a gameshow on telly before I make the evening meal, then the rest of the night generally watching the box, reading, journal writing, checking social media, a little walk of the weather is kind and putting away the garden gate display (well that’s not normally in the equation). If we didn’t watch the teatime news we wouldn’t know any difference.
Spotted this lampshade on the internet the other day, it’s made from feedsacks. Isn’t it fabulous. I think it need one haha.
Stay safe, only do what you’re comfortable with.
Lynn
xxx
Can't wait to see the new garden gate display!
ReplyDeleteThat lampshade is everything. Shame on the garden centre for not cleaning handles of their trollies ! My mum is the same, she told me that a local charity superstore has reopened but she won’t go in as when she asked how they were dealing with donations i.e sanitising them, they looked at her as if she was mad ! So she has refused to go back there.
ReplyDeleteI love that lampshade she says eyeing up our collection of pre-war Union flags!
ReplyDeleteThat dress is gorgeous, I can't imagine anyone would notice your hair wearing that, I'm pretty sure that most people who visit a hairdressers regularly are in the same situation, I do my own and always look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.
I can't say that I'm in a rush to get to the shops,all that strange choreography to keep the 2m distance and not being able to pick things up and look at them properly. I'm sticking to ordering online. xxx
First thing I noticed is that we have exactly the same bookcases with two units of CD shelving wedged between them! They'll feature in a future post, as I'm working my way through our house rearranging things! So sorry to hear about your bad experience with the garden centre. Ours is fantastic. All carts are sanitized after use, and in spite of there being no arrows, there's more than enough space to make social distancing a doddle. Wearing a mask is horrible, isn't it? The longest I've worn one is at the hairdresser. It would drive me nuts if I had to wear one all day. That lampshade is all kinds of fabulous, of course you need one! xxx
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able to go to a garden centre as there are things I need for the garden, but am not going near any shops any time soon at the moment. I wouldn't worry about your hair, it is currently 'in fashion' anyway! ;) That is indeed a great lampshade.
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