Second Saturday In August

As usual the week has whizzed by and the best thing about this week was a couple of days of proper warmth and sunshine - only a couple of days but much needed. Also good was watching some of the Cycling World Championships on TV. (Not so good was having a Wordle fail midweek)

On Monday I had to go out specially to get some flowers as I'd volunteered to make 2 birthday posies for the August WI meeting. Not sure why I volunteered except there was a shortage of people willing to do them. Unfortunately I've got a shortage of flowers in the garden at the moment so had to nip out 6 miles to Tesco's.

Then Tuesday was the Keep Moving Group and afterwards I went to have a look at a big furniture shop as a new sofa really is needed. It will be only the second new sofa in 44 years! I brought home  measurements to check out.

And that was the reason for  shifting furniture on Wednesday, moving things around, trying to have a bit less in the living room, making more floor space there. It used to be one of my favourite things to do - the children would come home from school and find the living room all different! . 

It started with moving the jams and chutneys from the shelves in the freezer room to the top shelves of the cupboards in the kitchen. When the shelf unit in the freezer room were emptied they went into my bedroom so that the small shelf unit there could be emptied and moved into the living room - it's the same colour/design as my bookshelves that are already there. It sounds straightforward but there was quite a lot of moving things (and dusting!) and searching the garage for an extension lead so I could move the clock.

Then there was a lot of shifting of books off the big pine shelf unit in the living room, moving some to my bedroom and the others put on the smaller shelves. The big pine shelves ( the top of which was used for my seasonal displays) were wiggled out of the living room onto the patio - where I managed to lay it onto the wheelbarrow and take it round to the garage. 

This is ¾ book shifting done

On Thursday I finished sorting and moving books, got the bread machine on and did a pile of ironing and decided I didn't like having the jams/chutneys so out of reach on the kitchen cupboard top shelves, so wiggled the pine cupboard from the garage (what the jams etc were stored in before the freezer room was done) on the wheelbarrow round to the freezer room and on Friday took the jams etc back out to the cupboard. That was more than enough moving for one week!

Hello and welcome and thank you to some people who have clicked the follower button, probably after Sue-in-Lancashire's post about blogging on Tuesday. It was really interesting to read all the comments, and people's reasons for reading, writing or commenting. Her post made me realise how bad I've been at commenting on other people's blogs recently- must do better - and I read that long posts sometimes put people off reading so I'll Stop Right Now!

Have a good weekend

Back Monday

Sue