One of those days where I need to be kind to myself.

I am tired this week. Bone tired. Life is being very ‘lifey’ right now and I find there are only so many steps you can walk before you need a sit down. It’s January, still, and so I naturally caught the ‘thing’ making its way round my daughters school. I have something in my mind about ‘looking like a wrung out cloth’, as if that’s an old thing my grandma would have said, but my brain is not in a place for thinking today.

I’m curled up in my big chair, wrapped in various items of wool, wondering how I can complete today’s big long list of tasks without ever actually having to get up again. I have a coffee beside me and a documentary on period property restoration playing in the background. My nose will not stop running and my head feels like it’s stuffed to discomfort with old playdoh. The hard stuff that you can’t really play with anymore.

I am running through my to-do list re-prioritising all the things I can do without moving. Mid coffee slurp, I am conjuring innovative solutions as to how I can complete other planned tasks in a different way, which might also mean that I don’t need to move. It is one of those days where I need to be kind to myself.

I will complete the tasks I need to. I will meet deadlines. I will just be kind to myself in the process. And I will drink more coffee. Definitely more coffee.

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