A rebel without a clue.

Light filtering through the curtains at around 4 and for the second morning I was struggling back into Lalaland. Tonight I must put back my bed time with an hour's book reading. I've brought a copy of Don Quixote to try the second part of that tome. But it's a more modern translation than the previous one I'd read so I started at the beginning again. Ruby has just returned to mummy's bed. She's no bother at all. Just now she came outside for a visit and we had a little moment together before she returns there for a couple more hours. On Saturday I cropped all the broad beans I had had growing since Autumn and spent yesterday blanching and podding their secondary shells for the stew I conjured last night. Part of me wants to take Ruby and Lola out this morning on the bus, but I would prefer to do that when Lola stays here at Chestnut Avenue. Collecting her from mother's adds another 30 minutes to Ruby's walk... *** Is it a good ide...

More blue sky. Off to the allotment prior to going up to Chestnut Avenue to dog/house sit until a week Sunday as Mo and Tony go on the COVID delayed cruise. Yesterday I had to call the DWP as I think they had got my CA payment wrong - I am not entitled to it. I am entitled to the Carer's Premium (£38.85pw) as my underlying entitlement has increased with my mother's health issues - she had a hand operation on Wednesday and hasn't left the house since. She's nearly 80. The contact centre have passed on the information to correct the CA issue and it should be resolved in 2 weeks... They will owe me back to 18th February minus the CA payments I've had erroneously. Another window of opportunity has opened. After I've dog sat  Ruby up until the twelfth of July I am free until Emma and Finley go to Ibiza on the 23rd. So I am going somewhere... From the 23rd until the 3rd of September I'll be in and around Wetherby. In some ways I am a little worried about being in ...