Up at 8am this morning - resisted the urge to stay in bed to read the excellent novel I started yesterday (more of that later) as feel the need to be doing stuff, using this new source of time and opportunity as constructively as possible.
So I ended up having a pretty hectic day, a million miles away from the imagined idyll of gentle pottering, a bottomless coffee pot and feet up! Still it was a good day, during which I frequently compared the pleasure of being able to make my own decisions about what and when as opposed to the powerlessness experienced in the face of deadlines, meetings and the demands of projects.
Highlights of the day: taking the time to prepare a shepherd's pie for the family dinner; walking for fun in the middle of the day; taking a bagfull of unwanted books and clothes to the Heart Foundation shop and leaving with two of the small number of Peter Robinson novels I haven't read yet; visiting the local library for the first time in over 3 years and reserving The Lost Sailors by Jean-Paul Izzo, but unfortunately no luck in finding Chourmo or Solea; watching the first episode of the new series of The Young Montalbano.
Around all of this I managed to fit in what felt like a lot of routine, but necessary, household chores, but in my own good time!
Plenty more to fill tomorrow and lots more tomorrows!
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