UnProductive

Coffee this week is served with a peanut butter brownie, crisp and chewy around the edges, gooey in the middle.  Definitely not for the health conscious and I almost regret making it having seen how much sugar goes in.

The baking experiments seem to be the things that are pulling me through this whole lock down experience.  I’m very lucky in being able to remote work, this week though has seen no let up, no extra time to myself.  A full on project gaining senior management attention as the number of issues starts to escalate and a milestone date that was promised a year ago is merely a few weeks away.  Many folk with lots of opinions staring at a hole that needs digging but funny enough they don’t have any shovels with them.

Another week has flown by and we mark this weekend by not doing some of the Cuillins in Skye.  A long weekend my youngest and I were going to take; to get him out the house and away whilst big brother did his exams….so sadly neither has happened.  We’ve climbed a few Munro’s (and have a lot more to go), but the Cuillins are probably the ones that scare me the most so we’d booked a guide.  They’ve been brilliant though and just to let them know when we’d like to re-arrange.

As a family we are all trying to keep the daily exercise going and I’m now back to running a 5k loop, which my Garmin seems happy about most days.  Although I did log in one day to be told my exercise was unproductive!  Oblivious to my mental state, which is on a roller coaster as we work through the quirks of the house through lock down.

So I’m choosing to ignore that piece of data and focus on the fact that 8 weeks ago I could barely walk around the house without numerous aches and pains.   Not saying the aches and pains have gone….they take constant monitoring and attention in order that I can be productive…..I’ve come a long way.

If your able to stay for lunch we have a nice homemade loaf in the oven, the dough enriched with a little sour cream that gives the crumb an amazing tenderness with a quick rise……in the meantime I’m away to do some yoga before I seize up!

The #WeekendCoffeeShare is an informal weekly link-up hosted by Eclectic Alli that serves as weekly heart beat and sort of of a mind-dump. Helps me reflect on my week, with a list of achievements, thoughts and rambles normally whilst drinking a beverage probably listening to music.