People often ask me: so what do you do all day? And I give them the same old spiel about meeting up with friends, exploring Orkney & the north of Scotland, and so on. Mostly, that’s true.
Well, today was pathetic. Up at 8:00 (at least 90 minutes later than usual). A long (1 hour) walk with Scout in the rain. When we got home, I changed back into sweats (I never do that), and apart from a 15 minute chat with my sister, I did nothing. I spent the morning watching YouTube videos, had a pie for lunch (you are not going to believe the contents: baked beans & cheese in a square pastry), sat on the sofa all afternoon with ginger ale & popcorn and watched a Netflix documentary series about a truly batshit crazy family in Idaho, followed by the entire Queen’s Gambit series (for the fifth time (?!?!)), had leftover Chinese food for dinner, then watched the grandkids’ vigil in Westminster, followed by the last episode of Shetland.
That was my day. Just pathetic. But every once in a while . . .
*Postscript: I made up for Saturday’s sloth. Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, so in the morning we went for a long walk down to the shore, along the harbourfront, and up through the town. In the afternoon we followed St Mary’s Path through a little wood and around a pond, and at night we drove up to Evie in hopes of seeing the Northern Lights (we didn’t see any). Oh, and the meals were better too: porridge for breakfast with Orkney milk, homemade soup for lunch with locally grown vegetables, and homemade stew with Orkney beef for dinner. I am redeemed.