Feeling Groggy

 I've not been at my best today, so have done the bare minimum, including perching up on top of the worktop in the Utility to scrub the windows clean, and wipe down fly-spit and dried up flies, cobwebs etc.  You can tell I don't often clean the Utility window can't you?  It killed my knees, so I had to have a wrapped up towel beneath them.

My Hollyhocks have just come into bloom - nothing like as impressive height-wise as some I saw on the way back from Hereford last week - those must have been 10 feet tall - but they will have been watered, unlike mine, which just got a splash now and then.

I had a short walk the other afternoon, and took a photo of the out-of-town parking for motorhomes/caravans - not sure if these are for people helping in the show itself or who they belong to.  The transport coaches and big red bus park here too, when not in use.  Parking for the many MANY thousands of people attending the show is on farmland out of town, and people are ferried in by the coaches.

This is the view from the end of our track - same as the view from inside my bottom triangle of garden.  Masses of caravans and some tents too - some souls who like their own space right under the treeline in their tents or like the bell-tent on the far right, in the middle of the next field!  These are for stockmen I assume, people who have trade stands, etc etc.,  who need to be near their stands/animals. There are what I imagine are solar lights which light up the pathways after dark. The Young Farmers village, with HUGE music marquee (it's like a mini Glastonbury) is further along the Newbridge-on-Wye road.  There are also hundreds of caravans in fields the other side of the road from the showground.

I managed to get into town early this morning, to get my paper and go to the butchers.  I bought their top quality bacon - just 4 really thick slices (1/4") best bacon, 4 sausages and 6 Free Range quality eggs - just under £10.  A bit Eek pricewise, but ONE slice of the bacon is a meal though!  A little indulgence I don't often have.

 I had an unwanted visitor in the night - these shoes were in the kitchen - a good 15 feet from the front door!  Scubbing off definitely needed and lord knows where the offender has slugged off to.

Alfie doing "relaxed".  Just shows you how "off" the colour perception is on my phone camera - those are bright pink flowers, not purple.

Well, I have done a few jobs today.  Two lots of washing out and most of it dried.  Spare bed stripped and remade, with some help from Lulu.  Utility windows washed and cleaned and polished.  A little shopping done, paper bought and read.  Ooh err about the Durrells, who'd have thought it?  Not quite the happy family they were shown to be in the books or tv series.

Tam still knocked out by this bug, Rosie a bit better but not back to normal appetite/drinking yet but sleeping better (through being poorly, bless her).  She and Tam had a good long sleep together this afternoon whilst Jon, no. 1 carer, went to the shops and got stuff to try and tempt Rosie with.  Rosie it would seem, has my caring gene.  Seeing that Tam wasn't able to eat much last night (they had got a bag of chips as they were late leaving the hospital), she was trying to shove chips in Tam's mouth, bless her.  Just like Tam did with a banana when Keith and I both had bad flu in 1990.  She was then 4 yrs old - Rosie will be 16 mths on Friday - but very aware and concerned and knowing people have to eat.  Amazing for one so young.

Right, nearly time to watch Foyle's War again.