Productive domesticity

I have had a productive day today. It started a 2 hour drive from home, having met up with some friends yesterday for a meal near Nottingham. Up at 6 o'clock, I got back to the village at 9 o'clock this morning, just in time for the village shop to open and for me to finalise when I'll start volunteering there (Tuesday afternoon). Since then, I have: placated the cat for my overnight absence (which I managed to combine with reading the Sunday papers in spite of Chino's determination to demonstrate his opacity while sitting on them); made bread (wholemeal cheddar and rosemary); baked cakes (coconut and cherry); planted the first in a succession of potatoes on the patio (first earlies for lovely new potatoes straight from the garden); taken delivery of a new compost bin (my second); and attended to various overdue bits of admin.

And there's still time to do some writing.