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Fairly quiet week last week.

#ORJENISE100 now catching up on prompts.

HOME: maintained - getting ready to tackle my bedroom, dealt with some paperwork and recycling.

HEALTH: improving - almost back to normal.

LIFE ADMIN: some unanticipated expenses and 2 parking tix - whoops. Noticed a couple of fraudulent transactions on one of my credit cards which are being investigated.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: maintained my main email account down to 12500 emails. Need to get back to decluttering that! Transferred stuff from tablet to Dropbox. Started sorting 900+ images on my phone.

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: bought plants/bulbs to finish winter planting of front garden and pots.

COOKING/EATING: too tired to cook properly - a week of soups and takeaways.

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING: still enjoying Murder Before Evensong.

CREATING/LEARNING: made more crochet pumpkins and managed to attend Friday's crochet club.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: sorted skip delivery Friday morning but didn't go to workday.

SOCIALISING: nope.

WORK: almost caught up. Fingers crossed for a quiet November.

Taking today - Monday - as a day off because I want to plant stuff bought yesterday, varnish the backdoor and do a tip run!

Week 41 (6-12 Oct) was ridiculously productive at work which left little time for anything else and then on 10th I got either a bad cold or the current round of Covid, so that was mostly about surviving the days and the crashing out in the evenings. So the last 14 days haven't exactly been productive.

#ORJENISE100 didn't get much done the last couple of weeks but I am plugging away at my master email account.

HOME: spiralled a bit back into chaos when I wasn't well - but have more or less clawed the kitchen, bathroom and hallway/stairs back from the brink!

HEALTH: it was a rough 10 days!

LIFE ADMIN: no progress for the last 2 weeks.

DIGITAL DECLUTTER: got my main email account down to 12500 emails before I got sick. Need to get back to that!

GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: nope.

COOKING/EATING: spent the last week living on tins of soup!

READING/LISTENING: nope.

WATCHING: quite enjoying Murder Before Evensong (an 80s version of Grantchester)!

CREATING/LEARNING: I did drag my unwell self to a pumpkin crochet class on Sunday 12 October and have since made 2 small and one medium pumpkins.

CATS: all good.

VOLUNTEERING: not recently.

SOCIALISING: Yes with ravurian last weekend two showings at the BFI London film festival. Pillion on Saturday night, a funny and quirky coming of age film starring Harry Melling (who I only recently realised is Patrick Troughton's grandson) and Alexander Skarsgard. Excellent performances and it's getting good reviews. The director had the cast and a lot of the crew on stage before the showing and Skars knows how to dress for his audience. *G* The back up Sunday morning for The History of Sound starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'connor- beautifully shot film about love, loss and folk music. Cracking soundtrack too. Then we went for lunch.

WORK: still busy but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

This week is shaping up to be busy but not awful and the weekend should involve time spent on the allotment in the garden.

I had a very productive week at work 6th-10th October.

Unfortunately I was incubating something and on the evening of Friday 10th I went to bed very early and woke up sick on Saturday. I made it to a pumpkin crochet class on Sunday and survived the week at work by staying as far away as possible from colleagues and more or less going to bed as soon as I got home and living on tinned soup and pasta.

Still not feeling great but a bit better than last weekend but I have done nothing around sorting the flat out - in fact many things spiralled backwards because I had very few spoons the last 7 days!

I am hoping to reclaim my kitchen and bathroom today.

Apparently Question of the Day is
The definition of an antique is something that is 100 years old – do you own anything that old?

Yes - most of the furniture in the cottage and flat is probably that old, as are some pictures and ornaments, my oil lamp collection and some of my jewellery, plus several books.