.....I have learned that playing very amateur rounders on a full stomach and a glass of wine is not all that comfortable, but lots of fun. Our team lost : { by a hair, Nobody cared. I wasn't counting. It was just a lot of playtime fun.
I had made a washing up tub full of organic coleslaw with poppyseed using some of my apples and the farm's cabbage and carrots and a tricolore pasta salad dish.
It was nearly all eaten. Everyone made an effort with the picnic and there was some yummy food to share.
NIce day, nice food, nice company. All good.
Sunday, beach day.
Swimming, reading and sun lounging. Three of my favourite activities - if you can call sun lounging an activity : )
There were some funny kids near me, German - nordic/English. They switched from one language to the other as they were playing, it sounded fun.
Bill Bryson: 'One Summer', is quite a book. It's a year in the life of USA (1927) with a focus on aviation and all of the dare devils, pioneers and/or hoodlums who were involved in the spirit of developing aviation and politics in the US.
The amount of historical catastrophes and progress that went down in USA in1927, wow, an incredible year.
The beach became incredibly busy by 4pm and I decided to leave, as I observed groups of people slipping into becoming overly-solar-powered, loud and lairy.
Tomorrow is the last weekend day of the school holidays. No offence to kids, because kids are great, I'll be glad that there will be less sprawling families on the beach. More room for me : ) I'll have more peace and quiet in which to fully concentrate on my book/s as well as more single older ladies reading/chilling/dog walking.
One more day of weekend. Tuesday I am going to make a 'Victim Statement', to state how the incident of Friday 16 has affected me. Of course it has affected me. You would not necessarily know this from how I am coping with it. I seem to be my regular self, but this is not the case when I am in the privacy of my home, or if I see a man of similar build/looks.
I have had one or two nightmares about it. These have disturbed me in the night and I have woken anxiously and have had to get up and check that I am safe. The thing that gets me through is knowing that I am safe. I have been meditating/praying to ground my nervous energy, or to still any anxiety when it arises.
My hands are still a bit shaky and I have to breathe deeply into my lungs and keep my spirits up.
Janey Godley provides the best laugh out loud entertainment, of an evening.....keeps me smiling. As do a lot of the people around me - including my good self. I can be very funny : }
And CP, and MLVC. Tunes of the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE
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