I woke with a pain in my lower left shoulder that hasn’t loosened off all day.

My whole body is stiff and sore.

I’ve maybe not been drinking enough water… she says, taking a big gulp.

It could be sleeping in the spare room with Calaidh the last few nights….

So I’ve had a pretty quiet and lazy day today…. I say that and I’ve actually done a lot. Just slowly!

I’ve done another 3 loads of washing. There are only 2 of us in the house but I leave all the washing until the weekend and it’s a good drying day to get everything washed and dried same day!

Craig and I watched an hour long YouTube video on how to use a WiFi microphone for recording. I did a video at Largs yesterday and it was really windy…. Turns out we’ve had these wind cancelling microphones all along…. Who knew?!?!? (Craig…… 😆)

I was so proud of how I handled that.

The guy on the YouTube was speaking so fast and Craig was talking over him, so I calmly explained that I needed to hear YouTube and for us to pause it while we tried to do what he’d just asked us to do.

I get overwhelmed by too much noise and can’t take it all in.

In the past I’d have snapped because I was overwhelmed. We got into a rhythm of listening and pausing and I managed to follow it.

It’s good to understand how you need to best function.

I cleaned the windows by the bird feeder as they were covered!!! It’s still so lovely to sit and watch them feed.

The sun came out and I lay down flat on our decking and stretched my aching body for about an hour while I listened to my audio book. The flat wooden surface really helped. Of course I got cuddled and licked!!!

She who did not like audio books is loving them now 😆

I then decided to take Bhru and Freya for a walk in the hope it would loosen me off… it did help a bit.

I deliberately left my phone at home as I’ve been on my social media on and off all day responding to comments. I needed a break from it.

After my TikTok training the other day, my 2nd TikTok video now has 18.2k likes!!! That’s amazing but it’s more people wanting to watch the Edinburgh Tattoo rather than solo female travellers I think.

So while I was sitting about 16.5k this morning, I did another TikTok post explaining what Her Travel Circle was all about. It’s doing really well too with 711 views already which is great.

I just need to get people to join…. I’ve looked up how best to do that too!!

It’s been all go in my mind I guess so now I really need to switch off. I’m going to read a book for a bit… and drink water and keep running to the loo!!

Hope you’ve all had a great weekend. Hope the storm tomorrow doesn’t affect you too much.

Think of me in my wee portacabin!!

Stay safe everyone ☀️☀️☀️