Day 1759 Sunday morning in the garden, in the rain and a lovely cuppa with Gayle!

I slept really well but had to get up twice in the night to take antacids.

I’ve been complaining of acid reflux for a while now and it’s only really dawned on me that it has been going on for a bit too long.

If I’m honest the antacids provide respite for precisely 3 or 4 seconds after I’ve swallowed them, which is pointless and my gut is decidedly icky.

I’ve said recently that I don’t know if it’s because I’m eating meat again? The thing is that Ellison at work has been feeling the same so I wonder if it’s just a wee bug.

It’s not stopping me living my life, it just feels a bit yuk.

I went back to bed for a bit but couldn’t sleep. We eventually got up at 8am which is long lie in our house 😆

We sat and had coffee and chatted and did some videos with the dogs for Craig’s business FB – Scottish Dog Behaviourist. I’ve been using the cinematic feature on the iPhone and the videos look amazing. It seems to use a lot of battery and takes up lots of space on my phone though. It’s already a very full photonic at over 65,000 pics/videos!!

I was very brave and deleted them all once I’d sent them to him!

Then it was time for the dog walks. They were split 3 and 1 today. The 3 Borders first, for a good run around, then Khaleesi for a short lead walk to look after her leg.

There is a lovely black and white cat disappearing into the field in this photo.

It’s a very light misty rain. I only really know because it lands on my glasses.

No pics of Khaleesi today 🙊

When I came back home, we just had 3 crates of cut firewood delivered. Craig is a member of the Gateside Wood Committee 😆 but we haven’t had crates of wood delivered for ages. He’s been hand-balling the wood from where they cut it down, to the house, to keep us going. It’s been great to get a big delivery but it needs hand-balled from the back gate, up to the wood sheds.

I filled the shelves in the house.

He’s done the rest!! Filled up some of our empty woodsheds.

It’s been raining all morning and all too often we would have said that we can’t do it because it was raining. Yes we got wet, but it was lovely to be out there enjoying the fresh air.

I swept up all the storm damage from the back patio and the decking.

Sweeping the decking was like curling… the decking is so slippy just now 😆

What a difference.

Why does that flick an instant switch in my head and allow me to feel peace?!

I have no idea but it really does!!

I can highly recommend cleaning up the garden in the rain. There’s a thing I never thought I would say. 😆

So for 2pm I headed to Mocha Jaks near us, to meet Gayle for lunch!

I had a veggie haggis toastie with cheese and Siracha.

And boy did we talk……

We talked for a full 2 hours and only had to stop because Mochas closed 😆😆

It’s very good to talk.

This is my caramel blondie with soya decaf latte.

So I’ve had a lovely weekend. I have my lunch made and my clothes ready for work.

There are so many things on my list that I haven’t done, but that is ok.

I’ll get to them.

Right now I’m back in my happy place in the sunroom. The fire is warming up, the candles are burning and the jammies are on.

My new word of the month is COURAGE.

I need to think about coming out of my comfort zone. I feel like I’ve been hiding in a safe place for a while now. Regenerating.

I’ve had ideas for a new business that Craig has already started working on…. He’s my IT geek and co-founder.

It’s nowhere near ready to go, but Gayle encouraged me to start talking about it now. She’s my business coach 😆.

It’s called Her Travel Circle.

It will allow solo female travellers to connect and make solo travel more affordable. Much more to follow…

Happy Sunday evening!

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️