#It was very pretty! My rubbish pictures don't do it justice!

[saints-who-never-existed]

Lovely weather for it and by "it" hehe well let's just say dabbing innocent young Victorian sailors. 💦🔪🩸

[nicistrying]

I have time on my hands to post things! Yesterday Matthew and I were BOTH OFF WORK ALL DAY which is such a rarity atm, so we went off to Big Waters Nature Reserve which I had no idea existed, but it's only 20mins drive away and is a super important wildlife corridor between the smaller rivers here so that was really cool! There were loads of geese, ducks and swans on the lake and the paths don't go very close to the water so they were just honking away and it was lovely to see / hear 😄 Everything was really waterlogged and a little flooded so we got wet and muddy but it was lovely walking between all the farmland around there. The smell of manure was oddly comforting to us country bumpkins and reminded us of home 😂 Matthew had uni work to do in the afternoon so I did some housework and we ate dinner together at a reasonable time and it was really lovely to actually have an evening together for once! And I was in a good mood bc I woke up feeling confident and positive about my body - I've been feeling a bit rubbish about it since I've been at work so much and had to spend my time off either resting or stretching just to be able to function. But I was feeling good and strong and it was lovely 😊

And today I was at work but only 12-4, I didn't offer to stay late bc deputy manager told me when I went in that they're trying to save on wages - which is concerning bc we are so understaffed already but at least I can feel less guilty about not doing 2 extra hours most days bc I don't want them to have to pay out more 😇. But bc I was expecting to have to stay, I made leek, mushroom & Quorn pie this morning for dinner tonight. It looks pretty good! Needs to brown a bit more in the oven when I heat it up to eat but Matthew had some for lunch and said it was good. It was still light when I finished work for the first time in ages so I went out for a chilly, dusky walk when Matthew left for work. The autumn colours are out in full force (the pictures really don't do it justice how gorgeous the parks around here are looking) and the sky was pretty clear after over a week of grey, gloomy, rainy days so I was super happy. Did a weeny little workout just freestyling some core & tricep / back strength work and am now relaxing, watching Schitt's Creek and looking forward to pie for dinner... at 11pm when Matthew gets home 😭

Hope everyone is well!!