Weekending (151/365)
May. 31st, 2021 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartI've had a long weekend of sewing and swimming adventures. Sewing-wise, as well as the shirt I've made two more pairs of pants as part of my quest to replace all of my shop-bought underwear with me-made, and I also finished the cardigan I've been knitting for the last couple of months.
As for the swimming, on Friday we went to Clifton Hampden (which is pretty much the first time I've been out of Oxford or Kidlington since last September, apart from taking T to Islip for his two jabs) where the river was flowing so fast we ended up walking upstream and then swooshing* back down. On Saturday we swam nearly all the way round the lake, then yesterday we thought we'd take advantage of the current to swoosh from Iffley Lock to Kennington, though as it turned out the current seemed to have dropped off a lot since Friday and it was more of a swim. And then today we went to Kennington and swam the whole length of the meadows, including going around the back of the island, and saw lots of goslings.
Four days is nowhere near long enough to recover from burnout, though, and I've had terrible Sunday-night anxiety all day (though the swimming has helped). I think having time off was definitely the right thing to do, and I'm sure there won't really have been any crises, but I am a bit worried about how much email is likely to have piled up in my absence, when this is a short week and pretty heavy on meetings until Friday...
*swooshing = swimming along a current
As for the swimming, on Friday we went to Clifton Hampden (which is pretty much the first time I've been out of Oxford or Kidlington since last September, apart from taking T to Islip for his two jabs) where the river was flowing so fast we ended up walking upstream and then swooshing* back down. On Saturday we swam nearly all the way round the lake, then yesterday we thought we'd take advantage of the current to swoosh from Iffley Lock to Kennington, though as it turned out the current seemed to have dropped off a lot since Friday and it was more of a swim. And then today we went to Kennington and swam the whole length of the meadows, including going around the back of the island, and saw lots of goslings.
Four days is nowhere near long enough to recover from burnout, though, and I've had terrible Sunday-night anxiety all day (though the swimming has helped). I think having time off was definitely the right thing to do, and I'm sure there won't really have been any crises, but I am a bit worried about how much email is likely to have piled up in my absence, when this is a short week and pretty heavy on meetings until Friday...
*swooshing = swimming along a current
