Sweet Peas

We were up early this morning, no coffee in bed. I had decided that getting up at 7am was the best way to start the day and get in the swing of things.
After looking at Blips and watching the news I set to with some cleaning.
Frank was at choir so I had peace!
The living room got a good bottoming! I had plans to carry on upstairs but I felt exhausted! Not like me at all until the past couple of months. If I’d had
the pesky virus I would swear I had long covid but I haven’t had it. 
Anyway, I had a rest and a cuppa then cleaned the kitchen floor. 
A bit later I dead headed the roses again - I can’t keep up with them they are so prolific!
I also cut all the flowering sweet peas for the vase, the more you cut the more you get! They smell divine.
We’re going to the boat again tomorrow but not taking it anywhere, I need to finish weeding the mooring garden and I’m hoping we’ll be able to sit out in the sun too.
New neighbours have moved in next door but one. Frank met them this morning and said they’re nice and friendly - they have two school age kids, a boy and a little girl. I think they will like our community here.

We ordered an Indian take away from Vegan Thali today. It’s from the same place I got it a couple of months ago, the one who comes all the way from Bradford.
The guy - Kamlesh - is so lovely and we got chatting on the doorstep. He said seeing our cellar windows and grids took him back to his childhood in Bradford when the football would get stuck behind the grid. Then he said he had gone to the temple for the first time in 22 years yesterday and it made him feel so good. I asked why he hadn’t been for so long and he said it was because as a child he was forced to go and when he was old enough he stopped going. I told him it was the same with me and the catholic church. We chatted for ages about this and that. 
Luckily it didn’t matter about the food getting cold as the deal is you heat it up in the oven when it arrives. It was delicious. 

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Sweet Peas

How charming are the sweet peas
clambering up the wall
threading through the trellis
they’re growing up so tall
I had to cut some down today
to encourage more to bloom
now their scent fills the air
on the table in our living room.


Book and bedtime now, goodnight! :-) X