Saturday 18th April
Saturday was a day that all I really did was read.
I had been struggling all week with my attention span reading Hunting Prince Dracula, but I was determined to make a dent into it as I'd really got into the story the day before.
So I read on and off until about 1am and had about a 100 pages left, and I was literally falling asleep!
Sunday 19th April
Sunday was quite a busy day!
In the morning whilst eating my breakfast I was looking at some old family photographs (I'll include some below!) from when I was younger living in Saudi Arabia, photos of my mum when she was younger etc.
I love looking at physical photos, I always have done, and it's one of my reasons of printing out my photos when I have chance and put them into albums.
One of my earliest memories is going to my Nannies house and looking at her photo albums every sunday! (So very fitting I was doing it today)
So after i finished looking at the photos, I tidied up my room, hoovered and polished, did my laundry and then I actually took some photos for my bookstagram!
I then spent the remainder of the afternoon finishing Hunting Prince Dracula, which was brilliant so many plot twists and turns.
I also threw the remainder of my To Be Read list out of the window, as I want to finish this series, as I started Escaping From Houdini straight after!
I spent my evening painting whilst watching a random crime drama on Netflix, I cant remember what it's called now!
Monday 20th April
On monday I was asked by my mum to go to our local home bargains as she wanted some lights for our garden and my dad wanted some milk. I've included some pictures of the garden and the lights below.
When I came back from shopping, I put my clothes away from doing laundry yesterday, then I went onto my computer for a little bit, I didnt do much in the afternoon, as I had the most awful headache and couldn't really concentrate on anything, even after taking some pain relief.
After tea I spent the evening painting again whilst watching the TV show Manifest, I decided to watch one episode as I'd heard good things and ended up watching 4 and a half episodes and painting 2 pictures!
Tuesday 21st April
Tuesday was a pretty relaxing creative day. I spent the morning updating instagram and creating blog post drafts.
I then spent the afternoon doing some more painting. I'm really, really enjoying painting. Its relaxing me and taking my mind off being anxious.
I've also had Manifest on in the background, which I am really enjoying!
I really like how this one came out, as doing all the different blues and whites was quite difficult!
I then joined my mum and dad for a Zoom quiz with my sister, and some family friends.
Wednesday 22nd April
On Tuesday evening I had a reasonably early night (for me during lockdown anyway) of about 11.30-12. But I had a really bad nights sleep, I kept waking up thinking I'd been asleep ages, but it was only like an hour later, but despite the awful sleep, I was still awake between 8-8.30, I dont think I've yet sleep past 8.30 despite not having my alarms set for work!
So I decided that I would have a morning watching the remainder of season 1 of Manifest in bed.
Whilst watching Manifest I did a bit of updating and adding to some blog posts I want to upload.
At 1pm, I then went to have some lunch with my mum on her lunch break, I also had some more company in the form of Barlow whilst we sat outside, I did cut the sitting outside short, as some wasps kept buzzing around, and I'm not a huge fan.
Obviously whilst watching the film I also started painting again!
When it hit about 5pm, my mum asked me to make tea, so we had decided on a pasta bolognese lasagna bake. I made far, far too much pasta, so ended up with enough for 2 large bakes so I called my sister and see if she wanted a dish, to which she said yes (thank goodness, as we didnt have any room in the freezer to store it!).
When I took it across to her, we had a nice social distanced chat and we've arranged to do a virtual pub quiz especially for my niece and nephew.
When I came back I continued on with my painting and my Divergent rewatch.
Thursday 23rd April
Going to sleep on Wednesday was awful. I couldnt sleep for the life of me, and I ended up dozing off around 2am.
Because of the late night, I had a bit of a lie in till about 9am. And then I was reading some articles on my phone.
At about 11ish, due to the fact that I used up all of our remaining pasta, I went to the local co-op to see if they had any more, they didnt and having had to queue to get in, I really couldn't be bothered to go to another shop, so I came home, exchanged the shoes I'd been wearing for my trainers and decided to take Barlow out for a walk.
Whilst I was out, I thought I'd take some photos of the surrounding area as it looks much nicer in the sun!
The below photo is looking towards Mow Cop.
This is Barlow waiting for me to get a move on whilst I take the photo of the fields!
Here's Barlow leading the way!
It was at this point when we found this pond, that I got a bit lost and took my phone out to see where we were.
At this point Barlow is over my taking photos with him, and decided to sit down and to give me evils whilst i looked on google maps and took selfies!
We then continued on and found another little pond, and made our back home.
We were both shattered by the time we got home!
When I got home I spent some time with my mum whilst she was on her dinner.
I then decided to watch some travel guide videos of Canada on YouTube.
After tea I then spent some time with the parents watching tv.
Now I may have mentioned earlier in the week that I was going to throw my TBR list out the window and focus on Escaping from Houdini. Well I havent picked up a book all week 🙈. But during the day I'd seen an advert for Family For Beginners by Sarah Morgan and I'd been intrigued by the blurb and it was only 99p on kindle, so I bought it!
By 9.30pn I decided to start it! Needless to say it intrigued me so much that I couldnt put it down, and by 3.30am the following morning I'd finished it!
Friday 24th April
So after last nights late night, I think I dropped off about 4am 🙈, I had to be up for 8.30 am to help my my mum with some technical issues for her computer for work that she had been having the precious day.
My dad wasnt working today, so it meant the kitchen was free and I'd been wanting to make cookies all week, so when I'd finished helping mum and she had to go on a conference call, I decided to go all out and make a salted caramel brownie as well as the cookies!
I then spent a few hours sitting with my mum whilst she worked and I played BlokuDoku.
I then decided to go up to my room and try and do some reading, but as soon as I laid down to read, I fell asleep!
I only woke up when the dog started barking. By this time it was about quarter to 4 and I'd promised to take Barlow out for a walk.
So I got up and took him for another hours walk around our local fields, but going in a different direction than what we did yesterday.
When I got back my dad was doing his first proper BBQ of the year for tea, so that was nice!
I then decided that I wanted to do another one of the virtual quizzes by the person that did the Harry Potter quiz last week, but todays quiz was dedicated to The Big Bang Theory.
By the end of the quiz, I was quite happy with my knowledge of The Big Bang Theory and look forward to doing more virtual quizzes!
So that was week 4 of lockdown! I hope you're all keeping well and keeping safe!
Vanessa
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