Experiments with Time

Help!

I seem to keep misplacing time...
Why does it go so quickly?

Where does it go?

Has it speeded up?
Days seem to whizz by in a blur of activity and yet the list of outstanding jobs grows ever longer.
Of course we still have the same number of hours in a day, they tick by in the same way as they have always done...
Maybe I am filling my days up with too much time wasting...
A timetable is what I need.

Something simple.
Borrowed image.

For a start, the darker mornings mean that I don't wake as early as I used to do,  and as daylight fades so does my energy.

So, I must timetable the hours from 8am until 6pm, Monday to Friday, try to fit things into time slots - although, of course, life rarely works that way.

Weather plays a big part in what jobs get done outdoors.
Grandparenting commitments mean that we are as tied to fixed points in the school day as we were when our own children were young.
It is an immense pleasure, but it is also a time anchor.
Everything else must fit around those fixed time slots.

Somehow I need to snatch back an extra hour or two to fit in all the jobs.
I can't extend the hours in a day, but I can try to reduce my time-wasting activities.

Tea-breaks must be reduced both in number and in the length of time we take.
Computer 'work' must be curtailed.
Reading must be done in the bath...except that baths should become showers - saving time and water.

Help!

I thought retirement meant that life slowed down, endless days stretched ahead with time for hobbies, fun, outings, reading...

I'd love to write more, but unfortunately this time slot ended five minutes ago...

Lincolnshire Day!

October 1st is Lincolnshire Day, a great opportunity to celebrate some of the wonderful things about Lincolnshire.   

I am a Lincolnshire Yellowbelly and I love my county.

I could talk about the delicious food,  the beauty of the county, the culture, history, or traditions...

but I won't.

Instead I'm going to show you some lovely Lincolnshire cottages.  

They can speak for themselves.

I know I have posted this one before, but I love it!

Bennie Finds a Bed

Beautiful Bennie has a very comfortable bed, but she rarely sleeps in it.   She drifts around the house finding a cosy nook here, a comfortable corner there.   She is very adaptable.  I think part of it is so that livewire Sparky can't find her.

Yesterday she decided that my sewing project would make a great bed.

I knew you wouldn't mind ...

George is busy redecorating the Boot Room, everything is topsy turvy...  of course Bennie found somewhere to oversee the operation.

Last night I searched high and low for her ... eventually tracked her down to the 'smallest room in the house', where everything from the Boot Room has been plonked while we decorate.

Her smile says it all.

In order to get into this room she has learnt to open the latch door, she stands on a Lloyd Loom linen basket which is nearby, reaches over and clicks the latch open.    When she does this in the dark of an evening, when all is quiet it can get a little scary hearing the latch click out there - when you just know there is no-one there.