Day 1247 the arrival of Bertie the Beetle (her/she)

I slept like a log last night.

Thankfully this heat cools right down in the evening so it’s easy to get to sleep.

It’s been a scorcher today. Walking out of the portacabin at work feels like us Scots walking off the plane when we’ve flown abroad on holiday.

Craig’s sent me this just before 9am.

He had to take delivery as I was at work.

Then he had to take Khaleesi to the vets in the car before I’ve even been in it!!

I did say I hope she hoovered up after herself. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I took her (Bertie, no Khaleesi!) for a drive when I got home from work…. Wow those brakes are good… we just about went through the windscreen every time I touched them! It’s a different colour than I expected but I really like it. I thought it was electric blue but it’s more petrol coloured.

When I was younger I’d have wanted to go every where in my new car but now I’m more like….. hmmm I have a nice new car now off to sit in the scorching sunshine.

It is scorching hot today! This isn’t just quite hot for Scotland, it’s hot for a Scottish person on summer holiday, hot!! I think it’s been up to 22-24°C today. It was cloudy and cool first thing but got hot just before lunch when the sun came out. There’s barely a breath of wind. It’s lovely.

Now that I have wheels I’ll be able to go places after work but it’s been quite a week for us. If you think about the law of attraction, if you believe in that at all… then how funny that I sold the van and bought a car and was able to use Craig’s when he was off spending time with the dogs. We could never have planned that to work. He’s here to receive the car rather than me having to shuffle days off and he’s back to work tomorrow. It’s all been perfect timing. Things are panning out like that for me a lot just now.

The other thing this week was winning the Body Shop advent calendar. I had a Marks & Spencer one last year, which I was given for my 50th. I loved it. I wanted another one for this year but thought they were awful expensive to buy for yourself. Next thing you know, I’ve won one!

I was sooooo terrified of selling the van…. Yet I found someone who bought into me as a person. She bought it and paid 90% of it and still hasn’t even seen it.

I am very much in the present moment at the moment and going with the flow. A wee hiccup yesterday where I was worried about the dogs but it didn’t last long. I keep coming back to “what will be will be”.

The dogs seem a bit less alert to each other today. Everyone seems to be settling down s bit. Maybe I am…. 😆🫶🏼

Incidentally I fasted for over 22 hours today really by chance. I know that scares people a lot but I really feel great for it. It’s not like I’m going to waste away anytime soon!

Fasting is quite addictive for me as it’s the one way I’ve been able to control my calorie intake. I had a huge lunch yesterday and some biscuits at 2.15pm and when I got home I just want hungry at all so I didn’t eat anything until lunchtime today.

I’m averaging just shy of 18! Hours a day though my target is 16 hours a day.

So all in all a life changing week so far, in scorching sunshine which is surprising.

I haven’t taken any other photos of Bertie Beetle today either, I must be slacking. I’ll get one before crochet.

I did and here they are!

I’m off to meet the Hookers in half an hour. Hope we can get some time in the beer garden before the sun disappears behind a house!

Here’s Khaleesi this morning before I left for work.

Craig and Khaleesi, she won’t leave his side!

And her

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️