The frangipanis are flowering and it’s getting hotter more regularly now, so planning what to do and when is getting more important…
Those plans for blogposts other than weeknotes are still just plans, so the frangipani flowers are the image of the week rather than gracing a post about the garden. The Vector robot is still operational, so that planned post will also get written eventually (and I have some video to share too).
With very little writing happening, this week was dominated by golf, with a practice 9-hole round of social golf on Monday and two competition rounds later in the week. Practice was great. It’s good to spend time with different people, and I got to catch up with a friend I’ve not played with in ages. Being more relaxed also means I get to find out how well I can hit the ball, which is pretty well at the moment! A better understanding of what you can do really helps your confidence when you’re struggling a bit in a competition. In spite of the increasingly hot and dry conditions (or maybe because, I’m not sure actually), there were toadstools on course this week.
I was glad to get out on course when it wasn’t too hot (still up to 34/35 degrees on Wednesday though). I need to get my water intake right, because when I don’t a sudden slump (both mental and physical) can spoil a nice score. When not playing golf I made a trip to the beach, not for a walk, but to get in the ocean. Getting more at home swimming at the beach (something I really don’t do anymore and that makes me nervous now) is one of my goals, so it was great to go and a good way to test out the car key safe I mentioned last time.
I can feel myself struggling with self-disclosure in this writing. That may be because I’m writing for myself with little sense that anyone else would be at all interested, but also very concious of writing into a public space for accountability. The balance felt easy early on… but less so now. I’m not sure where this is going, or whether I’ll manage to continue!
Stuff I did:
- Physio (last one for a couple of weeks)
- Short ocean swim
- Golf x2.5
- Home strength/weights x2 (one very short, one a bit longer and with more weight, with a much better recovery than last week!)
- Tidying up some of the spikey plants and dead bits in the garden bed I can see from our seating area
Plans:
- Continue with home strength/weights (x2 or x3)
- Christmas cheer (mostly food and some drink, but no presents)
- Golf x2
- Beach walk and/or swim (but it’s busy at the beach now its the holidays, so maybe not?)
- Make a skirt (because I did not do this last week)
- Get on the water? (will I do this, given D’s injured shoulder?)
- More garden pruning
- Writing (I will try to get a blogpost/research writing summary out in addition to my weeknote)
Writing, other than these rambles, is the thing that gets forgotten first. It’s too hot to want to run while managing dry eyes. Golf is good, but I’m very pleased that I’m getting into the garden a bit more and have a sewing project on the go.
