I have a few things on my plate at the moment and am feeling nervous. I talked about working methodically but slowly, but if all goes to plan, I’ll have to start doing things much faster! Hopefully I’ll have more information about this by the end of next week. Sorry more can’t be divulged now!
The past few days have been spent at work, catching up with my friend Sonja who’s about to go back to Ethiopia to continue being a doctor, meeting my friend Leonie who’s about to move to Norway, contacting chefs and working on the four stories for my friend’s magazine, and cleaning Liliane and Rene’s house.
Relying on other people to contact me for those stories, when I’m working to a deadline, is making me feel like I’m not in control of what’s going on! I need to take 10 deep breaths, keep plodding along and find some patience. The latter is the tough one.
Here are some photos from yesterday. It was a beautiful day! I met Sonja at the Marzili, the public swimming area right in the centre of Bern, and then came home about 5pm to a lovely mountain panorama.
Quite a few people were swimming. It was 18.5 degrees in the water
This lady found a lovely sunny spot. Must remember that!
We thought about going in … Sonja thought it was ok! But the belly button is always the test! No go!
I managed up to my knees
So we opted to laze in the sun. Good luck in Ethiopia again, Sonja!
The view from home. Clear as a bell!
Zoomed in a little bit. The mountain with the mostly black face is the Eiger, then the Mönch to the right, then the Jungfrau
We face south so we get plenty of sunshine. All the mountains that we see face north; the north side of the mountain is considered the coldest (in the northern hemisphere). Brrr …
I weighed myself at Liliane and Rene’s this morning. 65.6kg. I think that might be the lightest I’ve been for a while. Can’t say it’s because of all the exercise I’ve been doing (although walking around London must have helped. The beers not so much …) so I attribute it to the ‘summer diet’. Lots of salads and not much stodge.
One thing I’ve noticed when I come home after cleaning the neighbour’s house is I want to declutter even more at our place! They have many ornaments on display and small objects I have to clean around, and I feel thankful that our place isn’t overloaded with adornments. Just a few well-loved items. Happiness.
Wishing you a wonderful day.
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Well look forward to hearing that your nervous energy is turned in to positive flow! Hopefully we get a good view of those mountains when we are there – really are spectacular. Grey and miserable day here so if there were mountains to be seen they would not be in evidence. Garden men have still come and are busy trimming all the hedges and doing the edges so things will look fresh this afternoon. I badly need to spray garden weeds – I did a few weeks ago and all it seemed to do was kill patches of the lawn and do nothing to kill the weeds. I will have to go back to the mixing chemicals in the watering can thing which is harder than spray on but seems more effective. Everything looks very fresh and green at your place post the rain – much nicer than brown
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