...OK - bit of an exaggeration, but bl**dy scary!

My regular readers will recall that I had my purse stolen a little while back.

I was in Tesco's with my lover (it's all thrills and spills being a mistress! )when I thought about my Tesco savings account and then realised I didn't have my savings card because my purse had been stolen. And then I realised that with said card it would have been possible to simply withdraw all my savings!

Nice lady in Tesco's let me use phone to cancel card, but I was unable to check my balance as although I know where I live and where I was born and even my mother's maiden name I didn't know my PIN as I never use it outside house.

I had to get home before I could check everything was OK and luckily it was - Phew!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

The day has dawned drizzly and dreary here. There is a mild sogginess draping the mountain and the little birds are whistling damp songs across the slippery rooftops. Distant traffic skims wet roads while here in the garret I can see forty shades of grey.
Neighbours gossip over the garden wall and Asda calls, anon.
I can see that I'll be having a day inside my head while the daily triv unwinds.

I suspected (quite rightly!) my lover was missing me! I found his description rather poetic.

And today we had time together and thanks to a cancellation of a meeting will have chance to see each other tomorrow. Today was day of doing practical stuff, as tomorrow will be, but just lovely to be together. I'm also seeing him Wednesday, and Friday is our 'date' day!
And guess what? After a rather grey start the sun came out today!

I'm now paying for my indolence! I've had horrid allergy attack since writing and just sneezed and sniffed through rest of the day. had lovely cool bath which helped and now I'm back to sniffing and sneezing with added bonus of itchiness - and I didn't use ANY toiletries or anything! Back to Grrrr!!!! I think!

My neighbours are out in force and have been since this morning. Very sweet little blond grandson wandering around and playing in the giant paddling pool. Barbecuing, drinking and general raucousness going on including Granddad in long shorts bearing the slogan 'England' and displaying both builder's bum cleavage and beer belly - quite impressive for quite a slim man!

I had bacon and egg for lunch with tiger loaf followed by a couple of Mars ice creams. I have a lamb steak for tea. I've read the main bit of Observer, done some number puzzles and listened to Yoko Ono on Desert Island Discs - It's a hard life!

...isn't it fab?

yesterday my lover and I had few hours together West, so went to Neath Abbey. Neither of us had been there for years and I was telling him that last time I went I was given this amazing outsized key to one of the room there. There is a little house with immaculate garden next to the abbey that sells guides. The elderly gentleman was in garden so we checked it was OK to park where we were.

And as we walked past, the lady of the house appeared with the key which she gave to us. It's a massive thing that looks like something from an adventure story. We had lovely wander around the abbey and the key was to a wonderful vaulted chamber with a collection of ancient tiles and bits of masonry. It was the monks sitting room and may have later been a servants' hall:

Only fragmented remains of the cloister and domestic ranges can be found among the ruins of the Tudor mansion, but there is one remarkable chamber of the Cistercian monastery that has survived almost intact. Originally the monks' day room, this splendid rib-vaulted undercroft was probably used as the servants' hall when the Tudor house was created. By the end of the 17th century the mansion was no longer occupied, its structure later utilised to provide basic housing for the men working the copper-smelting furnaces on site. By the end of this era, Neath Abbey must have been virtually unrecognisable.

http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/abbeys/neath%20abbey.html
http://www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/tourism/heritage/neath_abbey.cfm

After our mooch we had lunch and a wander around Neath.

Today I had to go into work for a few hours and my lover came down to spend time with me. I left him coffee and cakes and returned to him doing my housework! I cooked us lunch, then we looked at pics from yesterday and just gossiped and lazed for a few hours.

I shall post some pics of Abbey site. My only regret is I didn't think to take pic of key!

My house is a mess and my garden needs some proper attention. I've been meaning to do something about both for a while, but not done anything. This evening I went out for pint of milk and realised it was still a lovely day and had mad impulse to do something in the garden. I wasn't in the mood for proper weeding, dead heading or livening so I chose guerilla gardening instead.

I hate the way that stuff which grows over the path to my door soaks me in the rain. And a flowering bush by my door has similar irritant properties, so I decided on a hack back. I took the hedge trimmer to the bush which was extremely satisfying. And as the Fatsia, ferns and fuchsias trembled they got a haircut with the secateurs.

I now have a satisfyingly full green bin. And I may get round to some proper gardening and housework one of these days...