Weekending: Good Stuff and Grumpy Stuff

Ah, had a lovely weekend.  Went to Kew Botanical Gardens to meet up with old friends (and their families) folk I have known for more than 25 years.  Oh how can that be!! It was sublime the weather perfect  -sunny with a breeze and sitting in the shade with the wide lawns and giant trees, eating strawberries and sipping prosecco.  Yes please.

Then today we went to visit more friends and had a European buffet (lots of dishes from around Europe) in - honour - of Europe and Europeans. With many French and Italians present.  Sigh.  Again lovely weather, not too hot, not too cold, and unusually on time train travel to boot.

I am  - if I am honest - still feeling deeply sad.  I don't really know why.  Perhaps it is hormonal, or post Brexital.  Or just some unknown reason.  If I stop, around the edges, I feel a slight creeping despair.  No reason for it.  Its just there.  I am writing about it, to lessen it.  I don't want to take it at all seriously or dwell on it too much.  But there we are.  I guess we all feel this sometimes.  No I am not even going to write this. 

Ah, Yes I am.  Its not like a full blown thing.  But something I am somewhat fighting off.  LIke a cold you ward off with lots of garlic and vitamin C and echinachea and all.  Perhaps it will, like a cold, happen regardless and all that must really happen is to go with it and let it pass.  As colds do.  They just come and then they go again and there aint much else you can do but rest up and bear with it. 

My major success of the day was to work out how to fix a very annoying error message in a PC laptop I have the use of to screen grab stuff for the e-learning course modules I am working on.  GOD computers can be frustrating.  And yet - I perservered and I managed to get the damn thing to send emails and unlock the unhelpful error message that was repeating and repeating for some very unknown reason!

So there's a good thing.  Another good thing is that we have found a sitter for the guinea pigs while we are away. When I say "we"......    I am  - probably because I am feeling grumpy anyway - feeling very grumpy that "I have to do everything around here".  Which never goes down well.  And which makes me feel even more grumpy.  Grumpy is definitely a vicious circle....

My grumpy be over very soon please.  Thank you.