Mental Health Day...

I took the day off work today...or had a "mental health day". I have had a couple of dark days, plagued at night by dreams of death and babies. I don't think I am losing the plot...just a bit emotional...physically I am fine, emotionally I am still healing I guess.

Anyway, it was a beautiful day, far to nice to stay in bed and catch up on sleep so I feel like I have had a quite productive day. Firstly I tidied up what will become the "green room"...it has been hidden under a layers of stripped wallpaper. R is now on the final layer, the dastardly bunnies and Asian babies...he is confident he is on the home straight...then it will be a bit of polyfiller and then my turn with the paintbrush.

I took Stellar for a nice walk, she got into a big muddy ditch and I kicked her up the bum I was so cross...not a hard kick, just a gentle toe up the backside...I felt so guilty about it I gave her an extra long bath when I got home...she is clean and soft now (and has forgiven me!!).
I gave the garden a water and inspected the progress...check out the cauliflower we will be having with our roast chicken for tea!! Until a couple of weeks ago we were inspecting the plants frequently questioning why I was mad enough to buy cabbage plants...but it seems they were caulis (makes more sense) and they are big and glorious. The worst thing about homegrown veges is the hidden danger of wildlife living on them, adding to the flavour once cooked. At least I guess they aren't covered in pesticides!!
The corn is looking promising for being ready in a few days the the cherry tomatoes are now colouring up nicely!
What domestic day at home would be complete without some muffin baking...they are never as good as Mum and Nanny's ones, but they are not too bad. R came home for lunch and polished off a few so they can't be too bad! They look good perched on their lovely cake stand (thanks PB!!). I even fitted in some sewing...watch out for a new skirt coming to this blog soon!!

We are planning a night away in Blenheim, we have been granted leave on Friday so are heading to Marlborough...we have found a fancy 5 star hotel on www.wotif.com...yay for cheap deals..so we will go and enjoy each others company and go for lunch at a nice vineyard and have a look about...Blenheim surprisingly has some quite good wee shops. We may even go to the races again since we had such a good time last weekend. Still waiting to hear back from the doggery to see if they can take Stellar, once we know that we will book our hotel and look forward to it.

Hope you have all had a good day xx