Tuesday

I had a lovely day yesterday. It rained first thing but the sun made an appearance later on so, during lulls in the wind, it was warm enough to feel comfortable sitting outside.

I tuned into the online photography class but he was discussing how to get the correct exposure so I didn't stay for the whole session this time. Instead I sat out on the patio with a mug of coffee and passed a pleasant hour reading. I tuned into the diabetes prevention course, which was awful and I won't be bothering with any of the remaining sessions. This session was a recap of all that we've learned so far, which is fair enough, except that there was quite a lot of contradiction in the leader's responses and I just lost all confidence in the whole thing. I can get more, very specific help, during the online nutrition classes so will continue with those instead.

In the afternoon I met L at The Nursery (garden centre). They were so busy that people were parking out on the main road and some double parking in the car park so the knock on effect was that the café had been really busy and we couldn't get an afternoon tea! They'd run out of scones so ... no problem at all ... we settled on cake instead! I didn't remember to take the photo until I'd finished my huge slice of lemon and blueberry drizzle cake, the first time I've eaten cake in weeks so it was a real treat. We caught up with all our news and I was so chuffed that L noticed that I've lost weight. To cap off the afternoon, L helped me choose my two new climbing roses. They are both repeat flowering, the red one is 'Crimson Cascade' and the pink one is 'Kiss Me Kate'. 

The evening choir practice was cancelled and will be on Wednesday instead so I will probably miss it this week. I did, however, make good use of the extra time and spent the evening working on the family tree by sorting through my list of DNA matches and messaging a few of the ones I think may be linked to the one branch of the family I'm struggling to get started on. Hopefully one of them will be able to provide additional information to help me out. 

Today I'm hoping to meet with J or at least have a phone chat. My car is poorly again - the tire pressure indicator came on yesterday but when I checked at the garage the pressures were fine, so T is coming round at lunchtime to see what the problem is. I'm assuming that he will need to take the car away so, if J is working, I'll go for a walk along the canal instead. That's the full extent of my plans today, although my sister may be round at some stage to drop of a bag of books.