Back to (Almost) Normal

Life has pretty quickly fallen back to almost normal.

There was no market on Saturday and we didn't need anything at the farm shops, so Lindsey and I went out to the Wendouree shopping centre and just had a potter round. I bought some hair scrunchies in The Reject Shop, which may surprise those of you who know that I usually keep my hair quite short. When we were at the Miyako Resort in Japan they provided yukatas  for the guests to wear. Kaori wore hers and looked beautiful. They also provided elasticated sleeve bands to stop the sleeves falling into your soup or whatever. I do not have a Yukata, as such, but I do have a similar style summer dressing gown, plus my winter dressing gown has long sleeves and I struggle to keep them out of the sink or the frying pan or many other things. The scrunchies are a good size for what I wanted and are working perfectly. Also, $3 for six scrunchies at the Reject Shop is considerably cheaper than buying actual, proper sleeve garters!

I was out at Macedon on Sunday for lunch with The Sunday Lunchers. Chris and John put on a lovely lunch with prawn salad, a lemon and chicken bake and lemon steamed pudding. The food was delicious and the company entertaining. It was a good afternoon. The sun even shone, which was slightly surprising. After a hot and dry Saturday, Sunday was cooler, greyer and wetter. It was a pleasure to have the sun come out during the afternoon.

I say that life is almost back to normal. I had lunch with Freyja on Friday in a fairly new Korean place at work, and it was lovely. We will go there again. I do not normally go out for lunch on work days. I am picking up some extra Japanese lessons because I didn't do any while I was in Japan and I have a whole load to catch up. I am working on Wednesday and Thursday this week, rather than Wednesday and Friday. I have various deliveries due. In a normal week I do not have to think about what I'm doing, when and where. This week I am keeping a close eye on what I'm supposed to be doing and when!

In amongst everything else, I have planted some new herbs seedlings. Freyja and Simon gave me another herb planter so I have one with parsley, and one with thyme and oregano. One teeny, tiny step towards getting my gardens organised!!!