wiseheart | Slow progress towards normalcy (Reply)

We've put most of the stuff back to its designed place, so the flat no longer looks like a refugee camp... well, not so much anymore. Mum volunteered to cook today, so I boiled the potatoes and eggs for the potato casserole early in the morning and peeled everything, so that she only had to put the dish together. She performed the last part of the totally unnecessary washing-up of the china that only gets used every sixth year or so, and there was a bit of tension between us because I always get mad when she does such things; and frustrated that I can't talk her out of it.

Still, I could squeeze in about half an hour of crafting before my friend Evie arrived, bringing us a gift of some tomatoes from her garden, together with two oversized zucchinis (one of which I gave the neighbours later a we couldn't have eaten both before one would rot on us) and some potato-zucchini-tomato canapés made in her brand new air fryer. Those were yummy, so we saved the potato casserole for tomorrow, which means: no cooking tomorrow! Yay!

I gave Evie two books about herbal lore that I had been given years and years earlier. She's interested in that stuff; I, not so much, unless I write Cadfael fanfic, hahaha. Unfortunately, I forgot to give her the Robin Hood DVDs I had promised her daughter, although I had dug them out and placed in plain sight in advance. Of course, the fact that sight was practically nonexistent in the flat due to the closed blinds might have had to do something with that.

After Evie left we had a very late lunch and an extended nap, since it is still hot like hell and we were both exhausted. Tomorrow morning I'll have to go to the supermarket and stock up on mineral water, soft drinks, ice-cream and alcohol free Radler. Those things are of vital importance to survive the weather. I might buy some food, too...