Kindness and mental health

 Thank you for all the lovely comments about my lavender drawing.  I put the photo on FB too, a few minutes later there was a knock at the door, it was one of my neighbours, the very talented artist lady who drew my fabulous Betty portrait.  She'd seen my drawing on FB and, knowing I'm just starting out with artwork, she brought some of her stock of different types of art paper for me to try out.  She explained the differences in paper types and what they were best suited for, and gave me some tips on buying coloured pencils.  How lovely of her to take the trouble, people can be so kind.  I wouldn't even have thought about there being different types of paper, other than the thickness of it.  She's also going to sort out some of her (expensive and quality!) pencils for me to try.  What a lovely lady, we have such nice neighbours.  One of the reasons why I don't really want to move from here, unless and until we have to, for health reasons.

Just waiting for the skip to arrive.  Husband is breaking up our old wooden garden seat, which is falling to bits, I've just sorted out the big plastic box full of littler plastic storage containers in the kitchen.  There were loads of split tubs, or tubs without lids, or lids with no tubs.....they've all filled a large carrier bag to go in the skip.  I don't really want to buy any more plastic tubs in the future.....although to be fair, they're not single use plastic, they get reused umpteen times.  I think I've got enough to last several years anyway!

Now I need to do a freezer inventory and menu plan for the week....that's sort of been forgotten about lately, it's just been a case of looking in the freezer in the morning and pulling out something for the evening meal that day.  I much prefer having a plan though and knowing what I'm doing each day.

Does anybody watch Line of  Duty?  I'm happy it's back on with a new series, I love it - although do find it a bit confusing at times, especially when they talk in abbreviations.  Like last night, they kept saying a word which I guessed was an abbreviation or acronym (ooh, get me), and quickly fathomed what it meant....the word was CHIS (which I initially misheard as something very rude!! 😳  Shows my schoolboyish sense of humour, I couldn't help laughing every time they said it after that 😂) and I gathered it meant an informer.  Apparently (I asked my ex-policeman brother) it stands for Covert Human Intelligence Source - what a mouthful, no wonder they say CHIS....but what was wrong with informer?

I've been very down the past couple of days, desperately missing people.  Sod this bloody lockdown, I've just had enough of it, missing our friends/family and physical contact is just so damaging to our mental health.  It's a pity that isn't understood more.