Friends come over to play Falmouth Monopoly
Friday 5th February
Credit card. Food cost nutrition. Shopping. Try out new spreadsheet for Hearth as have it for another month to test. Doing Pete’s spreadsheet. Add in quotes for bird spikes, wood for 3 areas, electricals, get 4 sockets per room. Watching Independent SAGE talking about inconsistency between £22bn spent on Track and Trace private contracts versus stingy sick pay, lack of supported self-isolation, and saying people fear losing their jobs, unscrupulous employers. Needs to be tackled government level. Evening Jessica comes over, hyper and emotional about re-adjusting to Andy being back. Had some wine and did my quiz call with Gemima, Theresa and Seb. I was winning until current affairs round and Gemima skipped ahead. Gemima went off to bed. Carried on chatting with Theresa and Seb til 2am. Went to sleep 3am.
Saturday 6th February
Woke 9am for Shift-It quote. None turned up. Heard rapping at 9.30am but no-one outside. Call with Peter at 10.30am. Seems determined to “help” me with things I am more than capable of and to correct something that wasn’t incorrect. Eric called to go to Range. Kept apologising. Felt unheard wanted to go for a laundry basket. I wouldn’t pretend. Comes over 7pm for chicken dinner, goes home after glsss of wine. Says young people lingering about.
Sunday 7th February
Get up at 10.30am. Call Eric to come over for breakfast while table out. Calls back to suggest walk. I say like to go to Nansidwell to get water and stones for painting. Steve comes too. Non-stop chatter. Can’t keep up so filter out. Go to beach and fill up with stones and water. Go to Sainsbury’s, get food, beer, wine and essentials. Eric, Steve and Robert play Falmouth Monopoly. I cook roast chicken. “Do you want to buy Jacob’s Ladder?” “YES”. Roast potatoes undercooked. Straighten out nutrition questions.
Monday 8th February
Lots of weird dreams about comedy, Prince University and Phil Mitchell is President. Realise dream Friday night on construction relates to Swanpool. Rampant building with no amenities or community. Tidy kitchen, put wash on lovely sunny day. Planning to walk. Need to arrange electricals with DIGS for 22a Albany Road. Downstairs sold. No idea who to or for how much. Must finish blog. Go for lie down, end up falling asleep. Wake up (read some of book – “Invisible Women” about gender bias and data blackout for women, who do unpaid carework. Make more journeys for this and yet men’s needs go without saying and are prioritised. Evening do call with Sangita etc. Amazed how discussion has died. I must start a page to allow discussion to grow. Comedy calls. Watch Long Lost Family.
Tuesday 9th February
Alarm goes at 7.30pm. Don’t remember dream anymore. Reset for 9am and 9.05am for Wakefield feedback session. Put recycling out. Dream about G7 summit and various people going. Invite or offer to help ignored. Venues opened. No one goes in to pub. Charging phones. Do tidy and wait for 1.30pm rescheduled call on Teams as slept through alarms. Maps by Mario Aline arrive. Packaged so tightly but good to receive. And Sophie record. Robert says take record out of end to fit one in. Alarm to remind about feedback call makes me jump. Need to finish this later so I don’t get distracted. Turning off light looks better on Teams. Cleared stuff from top floor downstairs to living room and looked through photos. Found picture of Mum and Dad in Ibiza and Formentera but not together, in separate pictures. Photos that show us all having a lovely time.
Wednesday 10th February
Remembered Tuesday’s dream involved lots of money. Thick wods of bank notes. It recurred in dream last night. Was about app and explaining it to people. Also have this crab friend and property. Look around and promising crab a bit of flesh. Then about spreadsheet showing how much something costs, amount, description, crucial nutrients. This is Thursday’s dream. Wednesday took piano to Rachel’s. See Police car. Eric in new grey Mercedes gets cold feet, says doesn’t want to be fined, is going home. Not sure what intends to do with piano. Suggest going around back. Find Ewan, hand him piano. Eric brings in, he takes upstairs. Have a cup of tea. Eric drops me home. I cook dinner. End up watching Firefly Lane on Netflix and talking to Robert about withholding stuff. Think it’s because I can cut through crap people react to me badly.
Thursday 11th February
Wake before alarm. Didn’t go to sleep well, so set for 10am. Have interesting dream about app, property and this strange bunch of friends. Woke up thinking about politics and nutrition. Adding info in Appsheet. John sent long rambling Whatsapp message about current affairs. Cook porridge with cinnamon. Trying to sell desk. Get message from someone who wants measurements. It’s 75cm x 55cm x 100cm. Say can come and collect. Look through messages and see my Goddaughter has come to Falmouth. Reply but don’t hear back today. Couple come over to collect desk. Lots of stuff over it, screw missing. Decide don’t like wood. Put it back on Marketplace. Watch Firefly Lane. Shocking end to series 1. I don’t think people should be cut off, damage needs empathy to mend.
Coming up on Tuesday 22nd October at 9am – Week 7
Sophie Sweatman 
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