A (nother) Locked Down Weekend

My goodness but there was weather on Saturday. Not weather as in catastrophic floods, or cyclone like winds or Antarctic temperatures. But weather, nonetheless.

It rained persistently all day. It was cold and windy and squally. It was definitely a Stay in Bed All Day sort of day. Although, of course, we didn't stay in bed all day.

On Thursday a cubic metre of wood was delivered to our place. I brought some of it inside and stacked some along the front porch. But I had probably half of it still sitting on the front lawn

And there it remained through Friday and during the rainy, windy, horrible weather on Saturday.

We stayed inside on Saturday. I lit the fire first thing. We drank tea and ate bacon sandwiches in the morning. I used some beef, beetroot and feta rissoles from the butcher and made burgers and chips for lunch. We drank hot chocolate and watched a replay of the Olympic Opening Ceremony from Tokyo in the afternoon. We had chicken parcels and wine in the evening. And stayed warm and cosy, tucked up inside pretty much all day.

Yesterday was a much better day. There was even some blue sky and occasionally bursts of sunshine

although there were storm clouds hovering around all day

but fortunately no storms eventuated.

I took the opportunity of a quiet day with no rain and moved Ziggy down onto the road so I could have a gentle tackle of the garage. I have reorganised the back of the garage and wheelbarrowed the rest of the wood in and stacked it along the back wall. I really want to completely reorganise the garage and find new homes for the tools and equipment that aren't being used and then sort out the gardening stuff. 

So it was a quiet weekend, as it should have been during a lockdown. But it was very cosy and pleasant and even a little bit productive. And that nice Mr Woolworths delivered an order of supermarket shopping. I can't get to most of my usual suppliers of food during the lockdown and it was quite fun doing an online supermarket order.

Watching birds, out of reach in the trees, in the backyard:

And going for a stroll in the front drive: