I made it!

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 I got up at six in the morning, had a long, early shower then felt like a human again. Hubby and I were off at seven fifteen to pick a very grumpy Flavius up, who for once had to be roused from sleep to make it to the swimming lesson- usually he gets up very early. Flavius loves water, but he definitely does not like his swimming instructor. He might be right- the lady looks and moves like a pitbull. Anyway, we left the boy to her supervising and drove to spend money at Lidl and Rewe. The boy´s parents insisted on these swimming lessons, now it´s them who have to cope with their son´s frustration. We saved three raspberries and one blackberry plant they sold at half price. Made it back home at ten and had a late breakfast which led to a late lunch. Late resting got interrupted by number one´s arrival- he did what´s called tidying out his garage, which means he´ll bring the junk to our house, where hubby sorted out (and kept at least half of it- you never know what you might need in the future). Thoroughly fed up with hubby´s attitude I took the expired fertiliser for citus plants and tipped it into the rainwater tank. Hubby was horrified, but fertiliser is fertiliser, and it´s extremely diluted anyway. One bottle gone, tomorrow I will do the lawn- there´s two bags of lawn fertiliser, and hubby has not yet done the back of our garden. Hubby planted the berries at the back side of the house. he was definitely not amused when I told him that I wanted the Japanese maple felled in autumn, but that tree does not what he was supposed to do, which was stay tiny. Tree is over three metres already...
Weather was next to perfect- warm (22 degrees), sunny and no winds for once. I thoroughly enjoyed sitting on the terrace with a book (a real one, not an e-book!)- América by T.C. Boyle is an interesting read- why does it remind me of today´s situation across the big pond?
Alas, all that getting-up-early and afternoon-nap cancelled led to a very tired me in the evening. It´s very unfortunate that today of all days there´ll be a two-parter on TV I intended to watch. Well, there´s always hubby who will tell me the outcome. He at least had some nap-time on the sofa on the terrace!