~spoons & swimming~

 

well another long hiatus from yours truly!

 

i have no excuse other than that i become easily distracted and that recently i have only been able to do one 'big thing' daily before becoming so tired and sore.

 

let me explain...you all know by now the spoon theory, well i can only do one big thing or a couple of smaller things daily and some very minor 'pottering' before my spoons are seriously depleted and i need to re-charge and gain those lost spoons back.

 

we do our shopping once a week, although it wears me out i go and enjoy it because its one of the very few times i get out on a regular week. on shopping days i do shopping and that's it~i even plan a very simple dinner that day because i know that  wont be able to manage anything more than soup or a sandwich.

 

the thing is that as well as physically exhausted i become mentally exhausted as well which means that even coming onto my laptop, browsing the web and blogging is too much.

 

all of the aural and visual stimulation to me is totally overwhelming and exhausting.

 

it has taken me a long time to get over the moongazy gathering, then i had the excitement of seeing the moulettes and seth...

 

 

 

then last week we went to stonehenge with cor gawr for the midsummer sunrise which meant i was eating breakfast at 1am, after staying up to watch the full 'super' moon rise from my garden, and we were waiting to be let into the car park at stonehenge at 3am.

 

 

 

we met our friends taz, kit and mrb there and after, although sadly taz had to leave earlier, we sat in pretty pagan and warmed up with mugs of good hot tea and kits date and ginger cake.

 

so although it was amazing it was something else that used all of my spoons.

 

so i have been trying to re-stock those spoons...however my mind is in total overdrive right now with lots of craft ideas constantly spinning around, waking me in the night, plus i have to get enough wylde apothecary stock ready for the fairy festival next month.

 

so much to do and so many ideas with so little time!!!

 

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swampy and i have finally started swimming (which of course uses spoons!)

i am a real water baby and love being in water, be it indoor pool, sea, rivers and so even the aches and pains can be pushed aside for a little while. luckily there is little mental stimulation being in a pool, i just love swimming up and down at my own sweet pace.

although swampy is finding it somewhat of a struggle and he is not a good a swimmer as i am i get that 'competition' vibe emanating from him. he is convinced that for my 28 lengths he did 14 i know that at one point i was doing more than two lengths to his one, although of course  wont tell him that!

 

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well now i shall make a start in popping by you all to see what you have been up to...it could take me a few days!



*swoon*

 

apologies for the slightly unnecessary

 

swoonage

 

in this post~some of you might understand, some of you may think what???

 

if you have been reading this blog back from 2007 you will know i am a huge Seth Lakeman fan...link is for anyone who has been living on the moon!

 

 i have seen him live...lots...really, lots...one year i saw him in Southampton one night and then in exeter the following night, a journey that covered three counties and about 250 miles...so worth it!

 

anyway back in October we saw he was playing at the brook in southampton for the current tour and swampy finally said he would go with me (swampy is into big hair rock...you should see our cd collection) so we ordered two tickets and have been eagerly waiting all these months.

 

so off we set last Thursday evening, waited in line for over half an hour, i like to be at concerts early so i can rush to the front.

we went in at 8pm and it took us seconds to get the centre front of the stage...the brook is small...tiny with only a 600 person capacity. it has the main floor with bar and small stage and an upper level with a bar, a small amount of tables and chairs and some standing room...which makes for a very intimate venue.

 

the support band were a fairly local folk group the moulettes who were absolutely fantastic (cute drummer in a jumper that could have belonged to a granddad and inspirational singer worthy of a grrl-crush) and at the end of the evening while about to choose one of their cd's ('the bears revenge'...go buy it!) i was lucky enough to meet Hannah the singer/songwriter/cellist/guitar and the fiddle player Georgina.

 

Seth and the band were, as ever, fantastic and the time went far too quickly, but i did come away with the set list that had been taped to the stage in front of me (so we had a sneaky pre gig idea of what was going to be played)

the utter highlight for me (*swoon* alert) was when Seth crouched down about 2 foot from me while playing his fiddle and gave me a beaming smile...after 6years i got my own smile...swampy did admit after that he turned to see the expression on my face and in his words 'it was a picture'

 

so there you go~a fine bit of excitement and i have been listening the 'the bears revenge' every day since and will be buying the rest of the cd's very soon...and a tea towel...they are so cute!