A tidy up!

I'm feeling a bit miserable this evening.  ("What's new" I hear you cry!!).  For two reasons.  The first one is thanks to the tail end of Hurricane Katia, which decided to change course and visit our Island before blowing herself out somewhere over Scotland tomorrow!

And like any impending visitor a 'tidy up' is in order.  So I had to go out and tidy up my garden furniture and put it all away.  I also put away the sun brolly!  Always a sad moment for me!!  I usually leave it out until at least October even tho it doesn't get much use after the end of August, but it makes the garden look nice and when it's gone back into hibernation for the winter, the garden looks very bare.

So I now have a very tidy, very bare garden with all the furniture safely locked up in the shed.  I wonder how tidy it will be tomorrow when Katia is finished whispering her sweet nothings all over our land??  Will all my efforts on Saturday have been in vain?  I hope not...

My other reason for feeling miserable?  I'm getting a cold, poor me...I'm going to take some Echinacea and with that, I'll need some TLC.

I checked the cupboard where I keep all the 'cures'.  (You know that cupboard, we all have one, the one where we keep all the 'stuff' that we buy and are determined to take to make us feel better and keep us healthy).  I know I have some Echinacea tabs in there.

Found them, well I found the box....it's empty!

I also found some Vitamin C - which is out of date!   And some Vitamin A & D - also out of date.  I also found some Calcium Magnesium and Zinc, some Cod Liver Oil and some Immunol, all, yes you've guessed it, out of date!!  Oh dear!  If only I had taken all of that stuff then I wouldn't be looking in this cupboard in the first place.  I did find some St Johns Wort.  I think I'll take that.  It won't cure my cold but it might make me less miserable!!

I think another tidy up is in order.....

So because of the distinct lack of cures in my house the only thing left is the TLC, and the best form of that I can think of, would be a hug.  Any volunteers?  (??)  Just one will do.  Volunteer that is, I might need more than one hug.....  :-)