February 17th – Looking Back at My Week.

It’s been one day sun and then rain here this week, with occasional glimpses of sun late afternoon but mainly grey skies. There should be a rule about the number of dull days allowed in a month. I get quite fed up with them and they don’t inspire me to do anything outside – although it’s much too wet and boggy underfoot anyway.

Three TV crime series finished this week, two with ‘happy endings’ and one with a ? . Silent Witness and Madame Blanc with the happy endings with After The Flood left wondering what happens next. Will there be another series – ‘After, After the Flood’ perhaps?

I found a thing called Bones to watch when there is nothing else on. I think it’s new onto the 4 catch up channel, a crime series from the US that started in the early 2000’s and went on for years with more than a dozen programmes in each series based on a real forensic anthropologist turned author called Kathy Reichs whose books I’ve heard of but never read but now perhaps I ought to try them.

I’ve not been swimming for a couple of weeks for various reasons and next week is half term when they have a different schedule so thought I’d better get some exercise and took my bike out for a short ride. I went off cycling over a year ago when the bike went from under me as I was getting on it. Not sure how it happened but it was very off-putting. Just cycled a couple of miles this time and it was hard work. It’s 3 years since I was doing the 6 mile ride around my old village, but not sure I could do that now.

Yesterday I had a professional oven clean, would never, ever have had that years ago but it seemed like a good idea at the time. A better idea would have been to keep the oven clean myself! but I needed a new bulb in the big oven and couldn’t get the cover off. The previous owners left me a note saying the bulb had “only just gone” and I’ve been here nearly 3 years, so it was time it was done. I have to say it was worth the money as the oven looks like new and as the guy said, having a clean oven is more energy efficient and I have light in the main oven at last and opening the oven won’t set off the smoke alarm any more as it had been doing occasionally.

This week I’ve been grateful for