A Day of Getting Clean

A busy Monday, kicking off with washing and drying towels, pyjamas etc. I stood next to the tumble dryer while it was on, enjoying the heat it gave out in the absence of central heating while the boiler is out of action. I’m so fed up with being chilly!

At 12 o’clock I joined the monthly St Luke’s lunch at The Exchange, which was well-attended. I chose the beef lasagne followed by lemon meringue pie and a pot of tea, but would have been just as happy with the pork loin or feta quiche, the chocolate brownie with ice cream, and a coffee. A bargain, with two courses plus tea or coffee for just £14, and it was great to be somewhere warm for a while.

The meal was over just in time for my hairdressers appointment, which was handy because I hadn’t washed my hair since last Tuesday. Lovely to natter with Liz while she did the washing, cutting and finishing. It had been a sunny day until the moment I stepped outside the salon to walk home, when it became very windy with heavy rain. There was even a roll or two of thunder. Luckily I had an umbrella, so my lovely clean hair stayed dry. However my boots and jeans were soaked through by the time I reached home. A few minutes after I’d gone indoors and changed my wet clothes, the rain stopped and the sun came out. Just typical of my luck at the moment.

At 6pm the Wren surveyor arrived to measure my bedroom ready for the design appointment on Thursday, when I get to try out in 3D where the fitted wardrobes could best go. Straight after that I went round to Christine and David’s (now referred to as the Tiptree Public Bathhouse) for a shower and a cup of tea. Back home I caught up with ‘Dancing on Ice’ and ‘The Great Pottery Throwdown’, which I had recorded the night before.

Many thanks to Heanku for hosting the Mono Monday challenge, with this week’s theme of ‘Something Typically Swedish’. My laundry liquid of choice has recently been made even more concentrated, and the liquid for the same number of washes as before can now be fitted into a small Tetra Pak (developed by a Swedish company founded by Ruben Rausing and built on Erik Wallenberg's innovation, a tetrahedron-shaped plastic-coated paper carton, from which the company name was derived).