I've had a full and lovely weekend. Friday was hard. Stu came to pick up his stuff and it sent me into a realisation of huge attachment and loss. It was a lot nicer to see him than I thought it would be. He is as I anticipated doing really well out of the relationship. But my night involved great thirst for elderberry and lime cider. I saw a beautiful Latino singer packed in to the upstairs living room of Bar Kollo like a sardine. Had some brief enjoyable chit chats, tried both avoiding the way I felt and accepting it. I think the most enjoyable part of the evening was when Clara and I came back shattered at about 12 o clock and drank herbal tea listening to Joni Mitchell.
Saturday I went into Hexham and had a very needed shiatsu from Jenny. As soon as I lay down I could feel my body surrendering to letting go of some of the crap its been stubbornly holding on to. Felt immediately better after a treatment of well over an hour. Grounded and spaced at the same time, had myself a pot of tea and a cheese scone in a cafe whilst indulging in a bit of my book. Met the lovely Elena for a catch up over the sharing of an amazing piece of strawberry sponge and another pint of tea.
School fair, very typically in the pouring rain. Bed for an hour, more tea and chats with Jenny, then a couple of hours at my mum's with family and my uncle and his wife to be followed by a serious curry at my sister and Paul's hanging out with the newest family member Chloe.
Yesterday was similarly full, swimming with all the Hexham babes. Allotment which is bursting full of flowers. Emma has a new allotment right next door to my old one, complete with out buildings, a cherry tree, plumb tree, apple, raspberries, grape vines! Seriously beautiful. I was a deck chair buddy for the first hour, then Sarah came over and we all got motivated. I dug a patch without knowing why at first then realised its the perfect spot for my apple tree. Might move it on the Sostice but need to check because their are lots of tiny apples already.
Read a really funny book called 'Every man's code of proper conduct.' It said some great things about education. Namely that it is a life's work and needs to be physical, intellectual and spiritual. I also liked the bit about how its our concious that makes us different from animals and we must listen to it often to judge for ourselves if we are in the right or the wrong. Finally statement that really resonated with me was on conversation- speech is silver and silence is golden. Think carefully about what you say as you can't un say it. I'm pretty immediate and spontaneous with what I say and luckily it often works out for me but thought it was a good lesson to remember.
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