Lanterns

Gonna have to be a quick one, this, as the laptop is running out of juice and I think I will go to bed after blipping. (Or maybe I'll have a cup of tea and try and feel a bit better first.)

Hung these lanterns out in the garden this morning to charge up (they're solar powered) 'cause the instructions say they need a good 7 hours charge before first use. It wasn't clear that perhaps they needed to be switched on to charge up. I'm not sure about that still. I suspect they all have dodgy connections inside too, they didn't enjoy staying on anyway. But they looked pretty.

Everything looked pretty today in the sunshine. I took some pictures of various seedheads this morning and enjoyed having a play with the images, they're not suitable for making into PS brushes but I did enjoy playing.

But the heat. Oh the heat. The only place cool enough to stop me feeling sick was in the shade in the garden, where there was a very slight breeze. Was supposed to go shopping but couldn't stand the heat in the direct sunshine. I never thought I'd say this but I'll be so glad when the weather turns and it becomes proper October temperatures. I think my internal radiator is finally switching on.

No Ben picture today. Well there was one, but it wasn't worth posting. He was just shouting at me to stop taking pictures of him! I'd rather put this up than that. I think the heat is getting to him as well, he's been so tired from the heat that two days running he's had a daytime sleep. Today I was SO grateful for that as it was my first moment of peace when he finally shut up and fell asleep. Mum's been out today on a walk, so Ben and I were left to our own devices. I've been getting used to having mum around, I really missed her today!! Am absolutely shattered from being on my own with Ben again. And Ben, from having these daytime sleeps, even though it's getting to 8.30pm and he's deciding that he's tired and needs to go to bed, is taking well over an hour to settle down enough to go to sleep. Yesterday I blamed his other Gran and Grandad for sending him hyper but today was just the same and he'd not had any hyper-stimulation before bed. Today he wouldn't let me finish my dinner before really really needing to go to bed!

Thankfully he IS asleep now, and I've had a lovely chat with hubby which has made me feel lots better, and I've had some dinner and now I think I will have a cup of tea and a biscuit and then go to bed. And I'm going to have that tea and biscuits somewhere else. Because there is a daddy-long-legs fluttering around in here and I can't stand them.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

It will.