Weekending

[white_hart]

I spent yesterday alternating dozing and reading. This seemed to do me enough good that by today I felt moderately human again and managed to find enough energy to finish the trousers I started last weekend.



(I'm very pleased with these trousers. I used the Lander Pants pattern I used to make a pair of yellow cords over the Christmas break, but with the legs narrowed following the pattern for the 100 Acts of Sewing Pants No 1, and the result may be my perfect trousers.)

I am still tired enough that I'm really not looking forward to having to get up at 5:45 tomorrow morning, and am quite worried about my ability to make it through five days of work. (I really prefer working in the office - I struggle to focus on work at home - but commuting just feels exhausting right now.) I am looking at booking a week off as soon as I can (and maybe even booking a Real Holiday, possibly in the Lake District, and have started looking at cottages and the potential for not-too-strenuous walks for people who are badly out of practice, especially with hills), but we've still got three weeks of term left so realistically that's not going to be for another month yet.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

I'm impressed you managed to get outside to take a photo!

A holiday in the Lake District and some unchallenging walks sounds a great idea. I've got one booked in the Dales for July, and really benefited from that change last year (which is why we are doing it again).

[white_hart]

I got T to take the picture, because I thought it was too windy to risk my camera on the tripod, but it was one of the drier parts of the afternoon.

It's a very long time since we've had a proper break away - we had a cottage booked in the Dales for March 2020, and then deferred to March 2021, but couldn't go either time, and when we have been able to get away I've prioritised seeing my parents. And I would like to see some hills again.

[oracne]

Those look great on you!

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[cmcmck]

Shame you didn't get better weather for your pic! :o)

[white_hart]

Well, that was one of the better bits of the day!

[chiasmata]

Ooooh, nice trousers!

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[kotturinn]

Troosis!
Going to the Lakes sounds grand & if you don't feel up to walking then sitting around admiring the scenery is a perfectly acceptable alternative around there.

[white_hart]

This is also true. And it would just be nice to see some actual scenery. (Oxfordshire is very pretty, to be fair, but I haven't seen an actual hill in two and a half years.)

[kotturinn]

I thought it was a bit more uppy-downy than Cambridgeshire(?), but yes Real 3D Hills are different!

[white_hart]

Yes, it's not absolutely flat - Oxford is surrounded by low hills, and further off in one direction you come to the Cotswolds, and the Chilterns the other way - but the highest hill nearby is about 170m high which is barely half the height of even the lowest Lakeland fells!

[sfred]

Wow, great trousers!