It's Monday morning, I have a couple of appointments to keep and a massive amount of work to do, much of it a lot more physical than I am used to. But am I unhappy, of course not because I have retired and have all the time in the world to get things done.


Monday mornings in the past signaled the start of a week away from home for me which in the end became a very wearying proposition. And for Christine it meant the start of a week at work, coming home to a empty house and cooking meals for one without any company until Friday (at least no one grumbled about the menus). But not now.


The sun's shining, the birds are singing and I am enjoying being in the garden watching everyone set off for work. There is a queue to get out the village, the main road is jammed and there will be a bigger one two miles up the road to get into Beverley but the main thing is 'I'm not in it' nor have I set off at 6.00am to drive 200 miles on a motorway. So instead of 'I don't like Mondays' it's now a case of Mondays giving me a positive lift.


So, thinking about it, if we get 'a lift' from seeing everyone going of to work, then every week day morning should be like a Monday. Following this line of thought through, what we should do is use 'the lift' to get the work done on Monday through Friday and have the week end off. That way we will be doing jobs when feeling at our best. But the problem with this is that it seems like having a job and that's not in the plan. And if we worked from Monday to Friday each week would we then start 'not liking Mondays' again as that is the start of the working week and we have suddenly lost 'the lift' from watching people going to work.


It seems if we do the work when we feel at our best we will soon stop feeling at our best and then not enjoy the work. Is everybody as confused as me?



So I thought I would try my theory on Christine and get her views on when to do the work. Planning together, you see it's a 'we' thing. Christine as usual has no idea what I am whittering on about and just says "do the work whenever you feel like it" and off she goes to pot the flower baskets ready for the summer.