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Al Fresco Dining and Flying

 The new patio dining set has arrived. Here is it, all bright and shiny…


I shall find some lovely cushions to go on the seats, which, I am pleased to report, are most comfortable. Needless to say that immediately one has one’s outdoors dining arrangements sorted, the weather has other ideas and decides to rain and blow wind everywhere. A lot. Which is fine because the water butts need filling and it is easier to let the rain water the garden than for me having to faff around with hose pipe and watering cans. I can do without the wind, though. 

In other news, today is the day that all five baby swallows have ventured outside into the big wide skies! They’ve been perching outside their nest but still inside the laundry for about three days but this morning - whoosh! Off they went! They hung around the garden for a while, perching here and there whilst their parents encouraged them to experiment with flying, and now they have gone off to explore further afield. I remember the babies doing this last year - vanishing for longer and longer each day, but always returning home to roost in the laundry overnight. I can’t help but feel a little bit proud of those babies, being an honorary Swallow Auntie and all! 

Work has been a bit of drain this week. Of course, it has been nothing compared with the exhaustion and stress of being a full time secondary school teacher, but I still feel like I’ve had the life blood sucked from my inner soul by folk who like to chatter literally non-stop at me all day without a break to even draw breath. I’ve been covering for colleagues either on holiday or off sick, too, and July looks like it will be the same. So I’ve booked myself some holiday at the beginning of August. By which time Heather and Ollie will have moved up here and I shall probably be helping them to move house! 

Exciting times, eh? In a small, domestic kind of way. 


Comments

Anonymous said…
Thought of a solution to the rainy day issue. Built a gazebo. I’m now thinking it is me romanticizing siting outside, listening to the rain drumming on the roof. Love your new patio set! I imagine you will use it at any given chance.
KJ
2 July 2022 at 05:20
Denise said…
We are thinking of having one of those sail things that you attach to the side of a building and pull out across the space when needed. I don’t know the correct term for it. I call it a sail thing.
2 July 2022 at 08:15
Anonymous said…
Good a name as anything! I know what you are thinking off.
KJ
2 July 2022 at 14:33
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