Fast - Day 2

Made this for dinner yesterday

It went ok yesterday. Helped by a dodgy tummy. I stayed home and while it did stop eventually i was as weak as water and very bored. I had honey from Helen's Bay which helped considerably and i watched BBC documentaries on mushrooms, bees and weeds. I lay in bed and felt very sorry for myself. I phoned plumbers and managed to convince one to come out and look at our house today. And then i cooked bean soup for Ghin and had some bean soup myself. It was very pleasant and light. The food from the food parcel is very nourishing and i am slowly weaning myself off the need to eat lots of meat which leaves me feeling sluggish and heavy. I had no sugar, apart from the honey and three plums and i did not snack. Although i did eat two bowls of rice - two small bowls. But it was quite successful really.

Right at the end of the evening i had one egg and the remaining bread. With a little bit of butter.

Today i am going running after school and then i am heading back home to do loads of adminy type things. While staying in my mom's is very pleasant, it is also a bit sad. I miss our house. And i miss Oisin and our house reminds me of him. The house, ironically, is very clean as we have been working hard to clean it over the holidays. Yesterday the weather was again really good - i spent the best part of Sunday collecting leaves to compost. Later i will put a lot of our compost onto the cleared beds and mulch it big time. I have so many fleeces from the roof parcels, they are super handy for precisely this.

There was a wonderful smell of bergamont as i cleared the leaves. It was like someone had just freshly brewed a cup of Earl Grey tea. While i did manage to not do FB, i did watch lots of TV. Ah well. Win some lose some.

I now seem to have caught a cold. It doesn't matter. everyone is sick at this time of the year. Although it was about 13 degs yesterday in the sun, which is very worrying for this time of the year. The entire seasonal year has now shifted by an entire season. It used to be a couple of weeks. Then three years ago, it was a whole month, now we are getting summer in autumn, autumn in winter and doubtless we will have winter in spring. Which means that we will have a very cold summer again. However, i have to say that this year we managed to get that one good week at the start of June for the farm stay - we were very lucky.

I quite like not being on FB. I also do not have my mobile phone charged and i don't really have a landline. This means that i am uncontactable - well i am not uncontactable - just more uncontactable than most people. I told people very recently that i did not carry a mobile phone and the look on their faces was very interesting. WHAT?!?!?!?! they said, very shocked. Yesterday we watched The Gadget Show, Ghin and I, and there was this complaining about poor mobile signal over the last few months - the last six months - maybe the infrastructure is now very old and needs replacing. People were saying things like not having a good signal was putting lives at risk. It was really interesting how dependent people have become on technology. You could not get 3G in this little village in Wales. Seriously, a little village in Wales wants 3G. It is probably not worth the mobile company's time to have a good 3G signal there. It is a business, not a charity.

Still feeling a bit wobbly but i will go to school and see what happens. I really want to be back in our house. It feels weird, i can't do my routine here of playing piano and getting ready for school. I find that quite annoying.

So i woke at quarter to five and planned my day, which made me feel instantly better - i think that things are very overwhelming now. In addition to the work and the usual routine of home, there is also the whole home repairs thing which is getting me down. BUT i should be happy because it means that i have a home, which most people on the planet do not. So, yes, i should be happy i have a boiler i need to repair.

RIGHT. Time to do correspondence. I was going to leave it to later today, but i think i will do it now.