Staying home...

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I'm at home today. A sore throat and general fatigue convincing me to stay uder the covers when the alarm went off. Another light sleep last night - I get to sleep well enough, but keep waking up and find myself far too alert at 1am. I've lost my routine again, which never helps my sleeping. Never mind - an easy day today will help me pull myself together. An excellent opportunity, also, to complete those nasty statistics and get going on my paper - it's so hard to close a life chapter neatly when you finished with it so long ago, but it is the right thing to be done, from every perspective. So I shall persevere!

I needed milk this morning, to make porridge for my sore-throated breakfast. I wandered down the hill in the grey damp morning to garner my 2 litres of fat reduced lactation, and stopped... Home on a grey day and not feeling my cheery self, I decided to mission onwards to the florists. The walk home back up the hill was much more pleasant clutching a stem of pink tiger lilies. A wonderfully over-the-top flower, rich with purfume and texture, now sitting on my windowsill - counterpoint to the grey skies beyond :-)