This is day six of virtual non stop rain! I can’t remember when or if we have ever had weather like this! Even during the bleakest, coldest winters when I worked and had limited time in the evenings, I was able to walk or jog most days! People in this country are suffering from a critical vitamin D deficiency! The tell-tale signs are becoming apparent!
We’re fast losing our sense of humour and our joie de vivre! Even those friends whose positivity under all circumstances sometimes really annoys me, have succumbed! Grey can only be tolerated for so long! After a few days it becomes debilitating. Feeling damp and cold inside and out has a devastating effect on mood and well-being.
Residents in my mother’s care home have turned into dormice! Maybe that’s the way to go! My friend and I went to the care home this morning to give the weekly exercise class. Unfortunately the staff had problems getting residents out of bed. The poor activities manager was running around trying to get everyone into the sitting room but had no support. We finally gave up! Sad, but maybe it’s the weather? Or maybe just apathy on the part of the staff!
The ‘bog’ section of my garden is under water! In a previous blog I posted about my garden ‘rooms’. Well, the ‘bog room’ (pardon the pun) is a wet section where I grow irises, arum lilies and plants that like wet conditions. Alas, I haven’t planted water lilies or willow tress that actually grow in water! It looks like a swamp! A heron was in our garden this morning, probably hoping to find goldfish swimming between the arums!
It wouldn’t be so bad if, between the downpours, the sun came out, even briefly and the sky turned blue! I would rush outside and soak in some rays before the engorged clouds scudded back, knocking into each other and spilling their contents yet again. At least I would have a memory to hang on to. I have to look at photographs to remind myself what sunshine looks like!
Yesterday I walked to yoga holding a huge umbrella to protect my bag and mat. Due to all this rain shrubs have taken over the pathways. Weeds have sprung up between the cracks and it has become an obstacle course to get to the clubhouse. Gardening is not high on anyone’s list of priorities so our park will soon become a tropical jungle! Being the inveterate worrier and with this rain showing no signs of abating, we’ll either be overrun by triffids or washed out to sea!
However, there is one huge positive! Not one to be taken lightly! I don’t have to go out if I don’t want to! I am not beholden to anyone! It has been a year since I became a Lady of Leisure! I still appreciate having the choice to do what I want and the glorious time to do it in! So life is not all doom and gloom! Maybe tomorrow the sun will come back. Maybe tomorrow I’ll win the lottery and buy a home where the weather is more predictable!
Or, maybe tomorrow will be the same as today? Only tomorrow will tell …..š
Jenny Burrell 