routines

Have been thinking that a quiet home-based Christmas/New Year followed by the bad weather seems to have galvanised us into rearranging our daily routine to include a few things we've been meaning to stick at. The latest idea is to sleep with the curtains open so that we wake naturally with the day. We tried it last night but alas scuppered by the revving of an engine - a neighbour stuck in the snow for a few days needed to get out. Mustn't give up, though! Meditation before breakfast and around the bewitching hour of six o'clock seems to be working. I'm tackling the food thing. We are both doing some work. We have loads to do in the house and garden if we are to sell in the spring, but DIY is on hold at the moment after a good effort in the kitchen which was the main thing on the list. I'm thinking a bit of painting in the hall and on the stairs, and a few patches here and there, plus garden gates and fences will spruce it up. What to do with the studio? A bit of a daunting prospect. However I think my drip-drip on simplified living and selling/giving away what we don't need or want has worked. The house feels much less cluttered and will be less of a challenge when it comes to moving. We've decided to cut back on the veg gardening this year to give us the time to do the DIY, although financially we could use as much from the garden as we can get. Need a fair bit of shopping this week, may just get in under budget.