Best Laid Plans
Hejsa!
A message outside the usual schedule…
Remember how I said I was going to relax (to the max!) before our holiday? I wrote, and scheduled, that missive on a Tuesday. On Wednesday that plan completely fell to pieces: after his morning nap, our Blake was unable to walk properly and by the time you received my mail on the Friday, he was at the vet's for the second time that week, and being kept until the evening to get food and fluids. He was very unwell because he had vestibular disease. Kind of like vertigo in humans.
Thankfully, he could come home with us that evening but all of a sudden it seemed very doubtful that Tony would be coming to Denmark. And if it had been any random holiday, I would have stayed home too, if necessary. But this holiday was with my parents and my sister and her family. Seeing my sister and her family was a priority because I see them so rarely since they live in California.
Anyway. Our dog sitter was cool with us cancelling the booking, so we didn't lose the money if Tony did have to stay home at the last minute.
We had a check up with the vet on the Wednesday afternoon (the day before we were supposed to leave for Denmark!) and thankfully Blake had improved so much that she didn't see any reason for us to stay home. So then we had to rebook the sitter and start packing and do some cleaning etc etc.
It was not the relaxing pre-holiday week I had imagined! I had planned to work on my Lughnasadh pages in that week but of course that didn't happen. And it hasn't happened this week, after our holiday.
Because, wouldn't you know it, first Tony, and then I, got covid on our holiday. We missed out on several days of exploring the island where we were staying. And we felt like rubbish. We still do. Since we came home last weekend we have basically done nothing but sit on the sofa. Tony has gone shopping a couple of times and we've done the laundry. But that's it. And we're still feeling a bit rough. This is the first time either of us has had covid and I'm definitely going to be even more vigilant about avoiding it in the future because it is not a good time.
The worst thing about covid is how it’s messing with my head. Even now, when my body is starting to feel better, my head feels like it is in a vacuum chamber or something. I don’t like it!
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures from our holiday. Bornholm is a beautiful island, I can very much recommend a visit. We’re already planning another trip, to make up for what we missed out on this time.
I’m going to take another break, to recover, maybe do some of the relaxing I was supposed to do before our holiday. So let’s say I’ll be back in the middle of August, I hope that won’t be promising too much.😊
x Carina
P.S. I made a very short video with snippets from Bornholm.
I did unlock one of my holiday goals: to eat peas straight from the pod. Gorgeous.💚
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The True Function of Racism Is Distraction.
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An Online Database of Marimekko Patterns.
Recipe: 1-Pot Chickpea Shakshuka.
London flipped map. I would quite like one of these maps. :-)