Mid-week weekend

It feels like the single day I had off was an entire weekend! Probably because we really relaxed to the max.

Got up late, ate breakfast outside in the sun (our much-needed winter rain is holding off too long...), then spent a few hours wandering the mountain trails at the nature reserve, armed with our "Birds of Southern Africa" book. We found a few varieties we haven't seen before, and were there early enough to catch the morning feeding frenzy of birds, birds everywhere, munching seeds and insects and whatever else they find in the trees and bushes.

We ripped up the linoleum in the passage and spent a good deal of the day pouring acetone and scraping away to get the old glue off a wonderful parquet floor underneath. Fortunately it's only a little more than a square metre, but it's going to take some doing to get clean! I was considering attempting the lounge, but if there's anywhere as much glue under the carpet I think I'll give it a miss.

An afternoon nap was indulged in, as was a full hour of Oprah (it usually starts before I leave work, so I only catch the last bit, if at all - more on what I saw later!) and a leisurely walk in the field above the house with the dogs as the last rays of sun turned everything to gold.

Even stayed up later than usual to watch Alias!

And funny enough - I didn't miss the internet, email or blogging. Not one little bit. Didn't even cross my mind.

But I'm back now! So brace yourselves for the usual menu of insignificant thoughts... :)