A bed of roses

I 'finished' Tunic - by which I mean I got a 'Game Over', which isn't the 'real' ending. There's an object I didn't find. I looked. I tried to work out what the clues were telling me, but I didn't make sense of it. I've found a 100% walkthrough guide so I can do a full replay, but I'm going to have another go with the missing item tomorrow.

I also finished series 3 of Psyche. A couple of hard-hitters at the end! 'Tuesday the 17th' in particular had me guessing ALL the way through. Well, not guessing - I don't try to work out whodunnit, but I quite often find I've seen the twist coming a ways off. And a nice touch with Ally Sheedy in 'An Evening with Mr Yang'.

The final series of The Umbrella Academy is coming on 8 August and I think I want to watch the previous episodes to get up to speed. Which may need me to put Psych on hold. On the other hand TUA won't be going anywhere for a while, I suppose. Oh, and I'm really looking forward to the second series of Wednesday.

I wanted to take husband out for a walk but my weather app said it was going to rain all day, so I went on my shopping trip alone at the end of the morning. And, of course, the sun came out in the early afternoon, so we could have gone together.

But I got my cleaning tasks all done by pacing myself throughout the day.

Next door to our right have absolutely NO concept of an appropriate time to do... whatever it is they're doing that's making a racket. At least next door to the left worked during the day! It might have started at 8am and gone on until 8pm, but it's now past 9.30pm and there's a load of clattering and thumping going on. Sounds like they're moving furniture around. But there's definitely been some stuff thrown out into the back garden - I'm making a guess at metal piping but really, could be anything. Now I'm thinking wooden planks...?

Today's Doctor Who was intriguing rather than interesting. It was the first half of a two-parter, but it feels a bit stretched. Whereas other stories have been squished to make them fit into one episode. The Doctor got all emotional AGAIN, although he didn't actually cry this time - but lots of other people did. And Who Culture are right - too many UNIT characters with not enough to do, other than justify a budget. But a GREAT job from the make-up department and the CGI peeps. I had to look Sutekh up, though - my Whovian knowledge is far from encyclopaedic! Which reminds me - I still have a LOT of old Who to watch...

Tomorrow, I'm talking mustard seeds at St M's, so I'm going to run through my notes once more before bed.

Why do holiday weeks go by so fast?!

I got another load of washing out on the line. I love drying stuff outdoors. So fast, so fresh, so convenient!

I also made progress with Zau. I think I've reached the final boss for Act Two, meaning I've completed this act in about half the time it took to get through Act One. I had to stop without beating the boss, though - tired brain was tired :( 

And I watched four episodes of Psych. It's absolutely ludicrous and beyond far-fetched, but I'm hooked.

We had an absolutely gorgeous afternoon but husband had spent too long sitting out in the garden and was already hot and bothered before I suggested a walk, so we didn't get out. But sitting in the garden is still being outdoors! We really could do with a parasol, though...

I also made some more home-made fat balls for the birds. There's something very satisfying about squishing together lard and bird food.

Oh, I managed to hoover the whole house, too - so that's one less job for tomorrow.

And tomorrow is just a normal Saturday. Bath and cleaning, here I come!

 So, yesterday the daughter and I took the grandson shoe-shopping for school shoes.  Town was heaving (of course) but the shoe shops were all pretty quiet.  We had a list of criteria, some from the school, some from us.  The shoes couldn't be 'trainer type' (which crosses off at least 50% of those available - and ALL the ones he liked), or have coloured labels (goodbye Kickers), I don't like kids in slip ons (cross off about 10% of what's left), or anything too 'posh' (he's going to school not a wedding - lose at least another 20%) and I thought he should wear lace-ups rather than velcros (lose about 30%).  So, yeah, not much left.  Added to which, his trainers are a size 3 but all the size 3 school shoes fell off him - he has his mother's narrow feet.  Shoes below a size 3 tend to be velcros because they're for younger children.  Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from all three of us!

But we did manage to find a pair that met the criteria, that fitted and, most importantly, that he liked.  And they were a lot cheaper than I was expecting.  The daughter thought they wouldn't last long but I think there's a good chance his feet will grow soon anyway, so I'm happy to get another pair in the New Year.

I invested in some toothy tabs from Lush as an alternative to toothpaste in a plastic tube.  They seem OK, so far.  If they work out, I'm also going to get the mouthwash.

Today, I plan to hoover the upstairs and clean the bathroom and toilet.  And wash my clothes.  The grass is also getting VERY long - tomorrow's job, I think, if it stays dry.

Every time I sing 'Ordinary World' I get an urge to write a song fic.  I suppose I haven't said I'll NEVER write another but I am trying to focus on original stuff.  But the line 'what would you wish if you saw a shooting star' is just MADE for Rinoa...

And I am about to head into the final battle of FFXII:ZA.