Second sight? and trowel photo

 It is heading towards 1 a.m.  I have not slept yet and have been tossing and turning all night, too hot and too wound up from the steroids.  I will have to put the cooler duvet back on tomorrow now it's warmed up a bit again.

The beautiful rose gardens in Christchurch, NZ.

Today I was in touch with my "fey" side.  Down the years, I have experienced a sort of premonition, prior knowledge, 2nd sight, call it what you will.  I might suddenly know I am going to receive a letter from a certain person.  Or the phone would ring and I would know who was phoning, and sometimes what they were going to say.  This morning I suddenly thought that I hadn't heard from the Hospital to make an appointment to have my Signoidoscopy (when I was in Hospital last summer, they said I would need to have this check).  Anyway, a few hours later my phone rang and guess what, it was the Hospital, to make the appointment . . .  I go in 10 days time and am NOT looking forward to it.  This especially as it's the day before Tam and I are going on an afternoon's Bunch Dyeing course.  So, I will have a nearly 100 mile round trip to Hereford and back, and the same again in the opposite direction on the next day.  Let's hope I have caught up on my sleep before that.

Today I had planned to go to Carmarthen as I have found I can return the new shoes that don't fit directly to the shop, and then replace them with some that do.  I was going to see my other friend Pam and then go on to Patchwork.  I think the lack of sleep is going to impact on that plan, and there is a frosty start to the day, and no rain until the afternoon.  I could have done with rain in the morning as I have a problem with my washer jets on the car and am waiting for replacements to come in so they can be fitted.  So, I may have to put the trip back a day or so.  

Not a great deal achieved yesterday.  I went to help friend Pam who lives near me.  She phoned just as I was going to have a nap!  I was glad to have been able to help her anyway.

Then I tried to reinvent the tasteless lamb and beans meal from the night before as the topping for a pizza, thinking cheese would give it more oomph, but no, it had to be forced down, and was just as tasteless. This virus seems to have affected my taste buds and I have to be careful using my usual go to, a tin of chopped tomatoes, as the tomato flavour has been horribly strong.  I made minestrone soup last week - that didn't taste right either and had to be chucked. The rest of the meat & beans will also be chuckerooli'd.  I hate to waste food but truly it was yuk.

I was too tired to sew yesterday.  I went to Llandod in the morning to get some fresh veg and chicken breasts.  I am trying to eat less meat and that was the only thing I was low on in the freezer.  I got a courgette and a red pepper to go into a pizza topping I have always enjoyed in the past (tinned tomatoes included) so will knock that together later in the week.  One of the chicken breasts will go into a stir fry tomorrow night - I got two nice crisp Pak Choi's, one to use and one to freeze. Some grated courgette and finely chopped red pepper will go in too. I passed on the Tesco beanshoots as they are always fusty and inedible.

Right, I shall sit down with a book for a while, waiting for elusive sleep to come and keep me company. 

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I was still wide awake at 3 a.m.  I feel ghastly this morning and Am Going Nowhere Today, I can tell you. Here is the photo of the nifty trowel for Gill.  I think this is the best piece of gardening kit I've got!

 We had a very hard frost last night.  So hard it froze the cat flap shut.  I don't think I will be out with the new trowel today!  What I should do is finish my letter to my Dutch penpal, and it would make sense as I need to be sitting for a while yet, is to carry on copying my family tree onto the long pre-printed paper chart.  That is a good January job, and enjoyable too.  I am pretty certain I have something like half a dozen churches I visited last year which never got written up.  I will investigate.

My poor body needs some tlc, having been dragged so low with this virus, and then battered with medications to sort it out.  I got some reduced Strawberries yesterday.  They are good for gut and soul.  No appetite yet though.