Various Things

Bugger! I just typed a long blog and it disappeared! AHG!

Various things going on - I just finished a book about Catalhoyuk, the Neolithic site in Turkey - somehow I've completely missed out on this amazing place - I only found out about it by reading Bill Bryson's book about the home - Catalhoyuk was a very early village where the 'homes' were quite different in some fascinating ways to the homes we are used to. For one thing, they had no doors, so the villagers seem to have accessed their houses via the roof! They had no streets, so everyone would have had to cross all the roofs to reach their own house. Most strange and not repeated anywhere else - other Neolithic villages had quite obvious streets between the houses.

I want to read more about this fascinating place.

Other things going on - the elections, the first referendum I've voted in (as far as I can remember, anyway), the cats have caught 3 baby birdies so far this season :(

I shall be making banana bread for tea - request of Daughter Number Two.

And I'm shortly off to exercise - kettlebells and stretches. Stretches are most important as I discovered just after Christmas when I had a full body massage and it was AGONY! The masseuse said I needed to stretch the muscles as the kettlebells were tightening them up and they were staying tight .... I had been stretching before, but had lapsed because it adds another 10 minutes on to my exercise time, but I've just got to do it, find those 10 minutes.

And then there's the weather - the perennial English obsession, but how much longer can this very early summer last? All my summer clothes are in the roof and I am wondering if I should get them out and put away all my winter clothes? I can't keep wearing the same very things over and over again when there's a box-full of clothes I could be wearing, stuck up in the roof. Well, that's something else for today, then!

Hasta luego.