Under House Arrest day 478

Tuesday.

Another day in Hade's armpit. I am not made to survive these temperatures. I barely do daylight, heat adds another level of torture. 

I belong to a group of Halloween fans who scour the country looking for quality Halloween decor. When the shops put their collections out we alert each other with *code orange* warnings. TKMaxx and Homesense have started putting theirs out already, so we checked TKMaxx last week ( nothing!) So before the heat got too intense we went on the bus to the station then walked along the canal to Homesense. We went in and had a hunt around, we had almost given up, when Kev found the aisle, there was quite a bit, and I had to stay strong and stick to the two items. I had edited our collection by a couple of things last year, so I wanted to replace those. But it made my little dark heart happy to see so much lovely stuff, and I did get two new mugs to replace the cauldron ones that had started to lose their decoration. 

I bought Myrtle the girlie ghost for outside, she is metal, but when I got her home she found her home by the side of the radiator. The stack of boos as we have called the trio of cute ghosties, now live on the bookcase top above the "girls" directly opposite where we sit. I also bought a pen storage spinner, which is ideal for my desk. It's a sort of dusky lilac but as usual I have plans for it. When it cools down I'll rearrange my desk. 

We were going to shop at Castle Marina, but gave it a miss as we were worried about breaking our new items, so we got what we needed from the Tesco express and then got the bus back, we got off at Trent Bridge Inn for lunch, it's fast becoming our "local" as there isn't one in the village now, you can't count the Manvers as it's not a local pub anymore, more a gastropub... It was quiet in there just a few die-hard chaps, we still wore our masks and ordered from the app. We aren't buying into this "freedom" the numbers are rising and we are doing what we have continued to do throughout this pandemic to keep ourselves ( and others) safe. You have a choice, ours is to continue as we are.