Monday 15th May 2023: A new week and I really don’t have time to be incapacitated anymore 😜 I would put the pain on about 3 now except for the deep aches which reach around 7 🙄 however with painkillers they soon melt down to a 3 as well. I can’t sit around and besides I have work to do, this week I have both funeral and wedding jam jars to get done so I have to get on. This morning I was up early to cut for the funeral flowers, nearly two hours, probably because I am not fully able but also because I wanted to chose carefully what would be in the arrangement. I was asked by my sister in law to do them for her Dad which was both nerve wracking and exciting at the same time and of course I would not have said no. I have known her Dad for a few decades and so I know he is a countryside man who knows his hedgerows, trees, wildflowers, grasses, wild birds and animals as well as domesticated and farm animals and I wanted to get as many elements in the arrangement as I could. So I cut hawthorn, Oak, hazel and willow as well as lilac because that is abundant at the moment. The arrangement had garden flowers but also included buttercups, cow parsley and grasses, to give a true representation of the season and the beautiful English countryside in May 🥰
Tuesday; Charlie and Shelley came over today to help me get some housework done and to help with flowers for the funeral. I am still struggling with the pain from the shingles, not so much the blisters now as the nerve ending pain which is at times very intense even with the painkillers and I’m hoping that sometime soon it will ease up because it’s getting very tedious.
Wednesday today we went to the funeral of my sister-in-law‘s dad and that was mostly what we did today really because it was over the middle of the day and by the time we got back one of the visitors that I mentioned previously was here so we sat and chatted for an hour or so, and didn’t really get a lot else done.
Thursday, it’s a nice sunny start to the day and I need to cut flowers ready for Friday flowers although I do have some at the back that I will be using as well. I’m getting a bit frustrated about the amount of work I have to do or haven’t done as yet. I have plenty of seats having to do and planting out to do nurturing et cetera, but the pain in my arm is constant.I have even resorted to using the microphone option to get this written as typing discharge the nerves, and that makes the pain even worse, so voice control it is.
I have had some surprise visitors this week one was a neighbour that we used to live next door to who is over from Australia visiting her mum I was surprised to find that it’s been 18 years since she moved to Australia which seems crazy. The other was a friend that we’ve known for many years that moved away and was also down visiting her parents and called in for a catch up which was lovely and really nice to see them both.
I spent the evening making up flowers for Friday flowers, which was lovely actually, although I was pretty tired by the end of it.
Friday: I spent the morning putting out flowers for Friday flowers and then cutting bucket fulls of flowers for 25 jam jars for a wedding tomorrow. I’m not sure what else I did that day.
Saturday and early start and a busy couple of hours. Charlotte came over at 7 am with Oscar and we made up 25 beautiful jam jars ready for delivery mid morning. It was lovely and the venue that we drove to was beautiful and hopefully everybody had a wonderful day.
In the evening, we went out for dinner before going to the theatre to watch celebrating meatloaf which was a great show. We realised that we first saw meatloaf almost 40 years ago at Hammersmith how times have changed.
Sunday: another sunny day and another day to get started on the garden although we were late up having had a late night last night. I have been able to manage to get a few things done so I have planted out the dahlias finally, and actually I am not quite sure what else I did, but I did a lot of pottering John has been busy getting the outside of the flower hut finished. We had a barbecue to go to at lunchtime which was good because it is quite hot out to work in thats not very nice.
At lunchtime we went over to Shelley’s as she’s invited us to a barbecue which was lovely and then back home to get some work done and I spent the afternoon finally getting a bit of weeding done and potting up some small plants that will go out for sale when the roots have established. The weeding was hard work as I was using my left hand to try and pull out tough weeds so mostly I just pulled off the leaves which wasn’t very helpful but it will knock them back a bit so that’s more useful than not.
That’s it for this week. Hopefully I can start using the keyboard again rather than the microphone because sometimes what gets printed is quite hilarious and I have to go back and do it again.
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