今日はサクッとランチをすませた後、すぐに残っていた箱を開けました。なんとか、ちょうどお茶の時間の４時過ぎに終了。食器もだいたい収納しました。昔はよくおもてなしをしていたので食器を買うときは割れても６人分あるようにと８セットくらいずつ購入していたのですが、おもてなしなど当分できそうな状況ではないですし、状況が改善してもここでは香港やシンガポールのようにお友達をたくさんお招きしてパーティー、なんて出来ないので、一部の食器を除いてだいたい２枚から４枚ずつをキッチンとダイニングに収納し、あとは別の場所に収納することにしました。キッチン関係のものですぐに収納場所を確保できなかったり決められないものが箱にいくつかありますのでまだお仕事は残っていますが、細かいものばかりなので棚には収納できず、収納用の箱やバスケットのようなものが必要なのでゆっくりします。

After having a quick sandwich lunch, we worked on the boxes that were left from yesterday and finished just around tea time – 4.15pm.  I managed to put away most of the crockeries.  When we lived in Asia I used to have lunch or dinner parties quite often with quite a few friends so we used to buy 6 – 8 sets of dishes so that there would be enough for 6 people at least even when we break one or two, but it doesn’t look like we can have any parties here for a long time.  Besides, even without this special situation, it’s not as if I can invite many friends here, so except a couple of sets, I kept just 2-4 of everything in the dining room and the kitchen and put the rest away in another place.  There are still a few boxes of kitchen stuff but they are the ones that either don’t have a place to be stored until the pantry is made or they need some boxes or baskets or some sort of storage items because they aren’t large pieces.  I’ll take time to decide what to do with them.

ということで、なんとか形になったので４時過ぎにお庭でお茶をしたのですが、少し前にオンラインで買ったハーブとサラダ用の葉っぱ類、根が張っていて土も硬くなっていてお水をあげてもすぐに乾いて萎れてしまったりするので、夫と一緒に先日買ったポットに植え替えることにしました。地植えにしたいものも、とりあえずもう少し大きくなるまで鉢で。元気に育ってね〜。

So, that made us feel better and we had tea in the garden around 4.30pm, when we started talking about the herbs and salad leaves I bought online the other day.  I noticed that they tend to become dry very quickly after watering and some of them needed watering more than once a day because the small pots they came in were full with roots and the soil had gone very tough, so we decided to re-pot them in the pots we bought the other day – and here they are.  I’m planning to plant some of them in the ground but I’ll wait until they are a little bigger.  Hope they’ll grow well.

よく働いて、腰が痛い。

We worked hard today and my back is aching!