What a strange day.
May 26, 2020Let us start with the good news, I did manage to progresss the blocks yesterday for last weeks border. I can piece them, they aren’t even too bad. I got 4 of the 10 done, after a bit of jiggling with the maths and checking and triple checking the plan. It’s funny how often the planning is the hardest bit and sometimes even the most time consuming. I am very happy I now have a workable plan, and I did think at times I might even finish all the block yesterday. I did the hardest four first and was getting faster. Then life happened.
First we got a video call for the dog. We spent an hour playing with him outside so family who can’t visit and see him or the house could meet him. Annoyingly he wasn’t on his best behaviour but they thought he was doing well for his age so it could have been worse. He did very much enjoy the call.
Coming in overheated it seemed a great time to sit in the cool kitchen and do the preparation for dinner. Yesterday was our monthly meat and fish delivery and that means fish pie. No matter what the date I feel fish pie mix needs using ASAP. The mixed chunks never seem to keep. So bulk mashed potato and off we go. I have also realised I don’t always feel up for preparing mashed potato, so in future I will do the whole bag when it comes in and freeze it in portions. You can’t freeze raw potato but mash is fine. One bulk session is a lot easier for me than several small sessions.
Having done all the preparation we were at doggie play time. We try to keep his main events pretty regular, so off we go to play. We do a lot of fetch in this session, but some of his toys are easier to throw than others and yesterday we lost one of his toys into the top of the bushes between us and the railway line. Fenrir was very upset by this and kept trying to get back into the blackthorn to get his toy. No amount of other toys and moving him away was helping, he wanted THAT toy. Yes I have now ordered replacements they will be here Thursday. While trying to wrangle this excited and not totally focused puppy we saw a paraglider. Cool don’t see many of those. he circled us and waved, we waved back. then he decended….into our garden. He narrowly missed our new planting. Well that doesn’t happen every day. While Tet tried to get the dog away from him I went to deal with him, keeping as far back as I could. He said he thought he had landed in a public park?! Really with no access routes and no paths, not much like any park I have seen. With raised beds and a car right next to a house. Well I guess he could be that clueless. So I explained he was in our garden and I would show him the way to a road but as we are shielded so could he keep his distance. That last bit I repeated several times, and in short, no. He didn’t seem to have a clue about social distancing or really anything to do with lockdown. He hadn’t noticed he had landed in an very small village either, and was after the local shop. Where I am is a road of houses with a pub. That’s it. I get accidents happen. He seemed to have enough height to have gone elsewhere, though public spaces to land in near us are few. I do think though than once it has gone wrong you at least listen when asked to keep your distance. I was hoping it was a perspective thing, but no, Tet could see clearly from where he was and said the guy was far too close. After so many weeks of staying isolated this really annoys me. How am I supposed to protect us from people falling from the sky? I should be safe at home. Maybe we should have headed inside as soon as we saw him, but I don’t want a random clueless man wandering around my home, and outside in a large space distancing should have been possible.
I did finish the cooking. Last nights fish pie was good and I have another in the freezer along with a meals worth of mashed potato. I also had a gin and tonic, Orkney gin and local tonic. Very light and soothing. Oddly I didn’t manage to settle down to sewing again. We were both a bit stunned. We did have Fenrir in the sitting room much longer last night which he loved it seems that was fair compensation for his disrupted play session.
Now I had better wrap this up and go and check on my bread, should be ready to go in an tin I think. I am very glad I was prepared with bread making supplies before covid came along. Getting fresh bread is iffy now and we really prefer what I make anyway. I hope some of those who have just learned to make bread will keep it up, these are useful skill and it would be sad to see them die out.