Grateful for a Good Week

 

Altogether it's been a good week. Transformative even, one might say.

Not only did I finish painting a cupboard outside the bathroom, amongst other places, but we also made it to IKEA for the storage boxes I wanted to go into it. Best of all, I managed to construct them without any assistance from Mister E. Creativity comes in many forms, be it screwing together pieces of wood or arranging the finished product on shelves. Brutal simplicity is the best description for the effect achieved, I think, and I confess I still can't pass that particular cupboard without a little peek inside to marvel at the conversion.

Also, I got the result of the antigen test I'd submitted for research purposes into Covid-19. "Antibodies clearly detectable," it says. I guess I'd have been seriously perturbed if it had revealed anything else, but it's still good to know that the vaccine has done the trick, for the moment anyway. With a second dose since, I am reassured as to my ability to reintegrate into the world as the next phase of restriction-easing dawns.

Then, if all that wasn't enough, those seedlings bed and breakfasting in my laundry room moved out at long last this morning and are now enjoying the luxury conditions of the greenhouse after the forecast suggested no more frosty nights are likely, at least for this week! The glasshouse now hosts greenery and I have space to wash and iron once more. Well I appreciate the space anyway, less so the chores.

I feel extremely grateful too that, as one of the few areas without local elections, we are cushioned from all the navel gazing taking place in Westminster at present as the political fall out and pointless media commentary continues. Sometimes I feel we have really created our own little oasis of independence, removed through retirement and lockdown from the shenanigans of the outside world.

Finally I have discovered a new diet that actually seems to work. It's called the Decorator's Reduction and has, I guess, little to do with the minimalist effect being sought and more to do with being on my feet all day!

So, there we have it: gratitude, change and fulfillment in abundance and all from very little.