Seasonal snottiness

We’re both laid low with some sort of flu bug. As is always the way, it’s come just at the time that we have a period of dry and relatively settled weather on the island, which we could otherwise have used to work out on the croft. Ah well. The heavy work on the raised beds will just have to wait.

I can at least sow seeds whilst incapacitated, so I’ve started lettuce, herbs, beetroot, onions, celery, chillies, nasturtiums, calendula, borage, kale and tomatoes. Most have germinated well.

Whilst we’re laid a bit low and healing ourselves with hot honey-lemon drinks, and chicken soup with dunkable cheese scones, we can also do a bit of something useful indoors. Book unpacking. The shed is still full of book boxes.

Before his cold got too much, Hugh brought in several more boxes of books and when we have the energy between coughing and sneezing fits we sort through a few more of these and get them onto the bookcases in the living room or the study.

He estimates that there are only about another seventy boxes of books to go, so we’re making progress!

Meanwhile, we are slowly staggering back to the land of the living and my symptoms at least seem to be abating. I’m a good week ahead of Hugh so he’s still sadly got the worst still to come.. better get making more soup.