Blog for Thursday 5th February 2026

I again woke up several times last night but happily turned over and continued to sleep thankfully.

I was out of bed just after four o’clock this morning and went up to my studio to have my Quiet Time. Yoh! Those wretched creaking stairs – they make such a noise but only when one goes up them the first time of the day. For the rest of the day, they squeak or creak not!

Paddy was up early and he left to go through to Port Macquarie to deliver the last of his lectures, and he will be home here tonight. It was another early start for him as he left the farm at just after seven this morning.

Once Paddy left, I got myself ready and dressed for the day.

Today I had on my To Do List – washing – three loads of it; and to sew together the little bunny wool bolero for Holly (a little girl in our church.) I also want to make a timeline on the prophecy about the 490 years/70 Weeks of Daniel that we learnt about in Daniel 9 yesterday in our Bible Study Group. I am a visual learner and so it would help me a lot to do that.

I sewed the little fluffy bolero together and put on the four buttons too. Then I washed it – just hoped it would wash nicely and not matt or shrink! I dared not hold my breath while waiting to see the result!

It washed well and I tumble dried it for a short while and it will be ready for me to take to church on Sunday.

I hung out all the loads of washing as it was a really hot, sunny day. I think the temperatures were in the thirties somewhere. I was a ‘good girl’ as I did my earthing walking backwards and forwards to the washing line when hanging out the washing to dry. Earthing is walking bare foot on the earth, and it honestly is something I love doing and it is so good for you.

I watched a bit of TV as it was just so hot and I had absolutely no energy – Yoh! this heat just drains it out of one.

I made my timeline on a thin strip of cardboard of the 70 WEeks of Daniel's porphecy. Yahee!

Paddy was really tired after all the late nights studying and organizing his training notes and demonstrations, so he cancelled a visit he was going to do after his training session today and came home instead. He got back here to the farm at about half past two and headed straight to bed to sleep. Hopefully he does just that – sleep.

He did!

Oh rats! My emails have been bouncing back again, so I had to contact the one school who had tried to contact me about SRE classes via email. It is so frustrating to have this happen every now and again, so I have given the school another email address for me, so this does not happen again. I will have to contact all the schools and give them this other email address too, I guess.

At five o’clock I had a shower and put on my ‘jamas to try and get cool as it was still so steamy hot. I put out the veggies that I still have enough of for the three of us – mashed potato, peas, butternut and cauliflower cheese, and I thought I would grill some steaks, but … I am not sure whether Paddy will even wake up for supper tonight, as he was that tired, he could possibly sleep right through, and Ken is asleep too.

Good, both Ken and Paddy had supper and then we all went to bed.

I was so determined not to forget Tayla’s (our eldest granddaughter) birthday that I sent her card and gift a day earlier than her birthday! Old age making headlines again! Oh dearie me!

What lesson did I learn today? To count everything I have to do, a privilege – I could be bedbound, in a wheelchair or worse, but am not – so I am blessed am I not? So, to wash the dirty washing, iron, cook, bake, clean, sweep, mop and blah blah fish paste are all privileges really when you think about it!

What am I grateful for today? Coping with the heat musing fans, fans and more fans!

My saying for today is …