It’s not often I have a list of things to do in the morning, but today I had.
I was up and showered early(ish) this morning and drove to the health centre to book an appointment for my annual check-up along with the inevitable blood letting. Just for a change I got a pleasant receptionist who actually helped me without any of their usual harrumphing. It won’t last, I told myself. The next time I come in, it will be Gort the Alien. Anyway, I got the appointment for the blood letting and for the dreaded meeting with one of the sisters. I don’t know if there are any doctors in the health centre now. It seems to be run by the receptionists and the sisters or the nurses.
Relieved that one of my tasks had been completed, I drove on to Tesco, Big Tesco as it’s known in the town. Every time I shop there, I feel that things have been moved and even the direction arrows have been rearranged to make it more easily accessible. At least that’s what we’re told, but I think they just do it to ensure that you walk the longest distance, searching, always searching for that lightly seeded brown loaf or the pot of flat leaved parsley that used to be in the same section as the leeks, but which has now disappeared completely. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve seen others like me wandering the aisles with the same blank look as me. However, today I did find almost all the items that were on my mental list (I’d left the physical list at home). Feeling fairly please that I’d managed to get most things on my list and therefore ticked the second box, I drove home.
Back home, Scamp was repotting some of yesterday’s plants and pruning others. I decided I’d tidy up the Rhododendron by removing the old flower stems. It’s a fairly easy task and I’d already cleared half of it a week or so ago. The bush looks so much better now it’s done.
Later I took my A7ii fitted with a 50mm f2.8 macro lens and proceeded to photograph a few flowers in the back garden. My favourite, and PoD turned out to be a close up of a wild orchid. I used manual focus with Peak set to medium and Red. That was a note to self, as I’m sure you guessed. Just in case I look back at the photo some day and ask myself how I took it! Simple.
Dinner was a mixture of pastas with mushrooms, tomatoes and onions, with a squirt of tomato paste and half a tin of chopped tomatoes. A typical “what have we got in the fridge?” dinner.
Tomorrow, Scamp is booked to go to the hairdresser in the morning and I’m intending to read in bed.