That summer feeling
Jun. 27th, 2018 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustOf course, when I say that now the solstice is past, that it's all downhill to winter, the British weather promptly delivers what passes in there parts for a heatwave. We have glorious sunshine, and I should be grateful, though I don't thrive on heat, and note sourly that Saddleworth Moor is up in flames: there's a reason why I so often head north in summer, and why, if I holiday in the south, I try to avoid the high summer months.
A digression: the Travel section of Saturday's Guardian included a feature on Galicia, with some useful information. Our Spanish holiday in 2011 ended with a dash to the ferry through the green hills of Galicia, and it has remained on my list of places to revisit. There is now also a new walking route, the Camiño dos Faros which looks well beyond my capability to walk, but suggests some tempting places to visit - and confirms my suspicion that the later stages of the Camino de Santiago are just too busy to be enjoyable. Digression ends.
Temperatures here in the north of England are not high by the standards of most of the rest of the world, but they are high enough for me. And that goes double for my desk in the attic, where it is really too hot to work in the afternoons, even if it weren't so bright that I can barely see the screen; so I have been cutting myself quite a lot of slack.
Despite which I have ticked off a number of tasks in the last couple of days, including a couple of medical ones (not entirely satisfactorily, since they result in additional medication, for long-term maintenance reasons; yes, I am grateful that I have no problems that can't be kept under control, but additional pills and eye drops do not cause me to rejoice. And no, I have nothing further to say on this subject). Bills have been paid, orders have been placed, cheques banked and websites updated: some of these plurals may be rhetorical, but I'm still pretty impressed with myself - not quite as indolent as I thought!
Today I shall challenge the heat by turning the oven on: I retrieved the sourdough starter from the freezer, and it was looking pretty frisky, so I am making a loaf of bread (with a proportion of Orcadian bere meal) and we'll see whether I should have renewed the starter first. Do I dare attempt some ironing? Clean laundry is piling up in the basket...
A digression: the Travel section of Saturday's Guardian included a feature on Galicia, with some useful information. Our Spanish holiday in 2011 ended with a dash to the ferry through the green hills of Galicia, and it has remained on my list of places to revisit. There is now also a new walking route, the Camiño dos Faros which looks well beyond my capability to walk, but suggests some tempting places to visit - and confirms my suspicion that the later stages of the Camino de Santiago are just too busy to be enjoyable. Digression ends.
Temperatures here in the north of England are not high by the standards of most of the rest of the world, but they are high enough for me. And that goes double for my desk in the attic, where it is really too hot to work in the afternoons, even if it weren't so bright that I can barely see the screen; so I have been cutting myself quite a lot of slack.
Despite which I have ticked off a number of tasks in the last couple of days, including a couple of medical ones (not entirely satisfactorily, since they result in additional medication, for long-term maintenance reasons; yes, I am grateful that I have no problems that can't be kept under control, but additional pills and eye drops do not cause me to rejoice. And no, I have nothing further to say on this subject). Bills have been paid, orders have been placed, cheques banked and websites updated: some of these plurals may be rhetorical, but I'm still pretty impressed with myself - not quite as indolent as I thought!
Today I shall challenge the heat by turning the oven on: I retrieved the sourdough starter from the freezer, and it was looking pretty frisky, so I am making a loaf of bread (with a proportion of Orcadian bere meal) and we'll see whether I should have renewed the starter first. Do I dare attempt some ironing? Clean laundry is piling up in the basket...
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