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Sencha tea is a type of Green Tea, which is soft, mild and sweet in flavour, consisting of traditionally grassy notes with every sip.

Although immensely popular in Japan, it likely originates from China. Nevertheless, debates exist between the two countries concerning its true beginnings, with Japan maintaining that they, in fact, came up with it first!

Legend has it that a Japanese Tea farmer from Uji, near Kyoto, created this infusion while experimenting with different production techniques.

Knowing the locals wouldn’t take kindly to his new Tea, the farmer travelled to Edo (present-day Tokyo) to sell it. Few were interested at first until the farmer visited a small Tea shop, where the owner fell in love with it. Sencha became a phenomenon not long after.

Or so the story goes! Whether there is any truth to this tale is questionable. Yet that doesn’t change the fact that Sencha is one of the most famous Green Tea types in the world. Furthermore, putting taste and popularity to one side, it likewise provides avid drinkers with the Benefits of Green Tea.

Good morning everyone and happy Sunday!

Just my usual quick Sunday CI as we need to leave early for church. Rain is forecast yet again, and temperatures are stil.decodedly chilly, so I need to remember to wear a thicker jacket.

Have a good day, everyone!

SHEM:

"Fall down seven times, get up eight." Japanese proverb

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Hang up sheets to dry
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
Fold laundry and PA
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:

kittykatt, what's on the famous Sunday menu today?
lauralind, things kept jumping in my basket at the garden store yesterday too!

Sunday. Movie last night was fun, though I swear the tickets are getting pricier each time we go! But then again, we don't get to go to movies too often, only a couple times per year, so there's that. The girls met with their grandmother, a bit at my insistence - when she was bragging over the phone on Thursday how much time she was spending with my nephew and how he was there for almost the entirity of the five weeks he was confined to bed due to an inflamed hip joint, I snapped and told her she could maybe sometimes at least call my children because they are her grandkids too. She's generally happy for the contact to be me telling her the kids are fine during the weekly call which she spends talking about herself and other people important to her, rarely even asking me how I am, and I'm used to it, but I guess it just didn't sit right with me this time. Families. Always drama ensured!

Anyway, as I said, Sunday. It rained overnight, so my garden is well watered and weeding will be easy. There's also a huge load of laundry that need to be dealth with, and the twins are leaving for a 5 day school trip tomorrow morning, so I need to needle them to pack, and DBD's room could really use some attention before she comes home. So, off I go!


TaDas
- sleep in and reading in bed
- showered to shoes
- breakfast and coffee in the garden
- internet time

ToDos
- morning routine
- 30 on laundry
- 30 in garden

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- pay remaining balance for the summer hols
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of darks
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

◕‿◕ * * * Good Morning! * * * ◕‿◕

kittykatt, thanks for the start. I think I have had Sencha tea before. Not sure. I prefer black tea to green tea. Thanks for the advice on hair dye yesterday - I purchased a box of permanent dye. I will have to buy another one, as it says in small print on the box that for a first dye or for long / thick hair it's better to buy two boxes... Have a good time at church !

trissie, not very wise comments to make, from your grandmother, to a mother of four who is parenting alone several days a week.

I have read that SHEM in French too, it's actually the tile of a book by a French author (Philippe Labro) who decribes his own experience of depression. I always wondered why it's not "fall down seven times, get up seven"
I was a bit angry ad MrNG earlier (dont want to exactly call him NiceGuy right now) because he weeded a part of the garden where some calendula were trying to grow, I mentioned it to him during the week, and this morning he ripped a lot of things from that spot, he also got rid of the forget-me-nots that I find lovely... to plant some Swiss chards he had sowed weeks ago. Chards are not my favourite veggies, kids don't eat much of it, and they take very long to peel and dice (and doing so colours the nails in grey), I wish I had my say in the priorities for this part of our (small) garden. I'm angry and sad.
Well, there are worse things. It's a quiet Sunday, I intend to enjoy that time away from work, and also I need to be productive, so ruminating over things that make me angry won't help.

TADAs
up after good night
talked finances with MrNG for awhile
tea, bfast with the kids
got started on some cooking
saw MrNG planting chards in garden spot where flowers had been growing, got angry
some more cooking
quick cuop

TODO
dessert for lunch ?
write down the menus for the week (they are on an online shared document but it's not the best for daily use)
have lunch ready
later
check the weekly to-do list
time with DS7 for some Lego projects
do something together outdoors, the four of us ?
probably copy and paste most items from the week's list onto next week's list
weekly vacuum upstairs
dinner
set things up for week of school and payroll
bed early

Ugh, Frenchie, now you make me appreciate that my husband never even approaches the veggie garden! With which I am NOT happy this year. Barely anything I planted actually took, and even things that should be a no brainer like radishes, don't thrive at all. I water it, I fertilize it, but probably the dirt is to clay-ish and there's not enough sun in there. Only with my architect-designed garden there is no other place to actually put the vegetables

TaDas
- morning routine
- 45 on laundry
- clean patio table
- repot flowers and zuchini plant
- some weeding
- some pick up
- 30 inside spiff up
- lunch
- darks flipped to dryer
- DD's winter blanket in the washer

ToDos
- midday routine
- 15 on laundry
- pick up DBD and DS

Braindump
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breastarter
organization
- pay remaining balance for the summer hols
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of darks
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
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Yay for gettin the afternoon back, and for you both liking the movie, helia! Now I will have to keep an eye when it comes to streaming services.

TaDas
- midday routine
- 15 on laundry
- pick up DBD and DS

ToDos
- afternoon routine
- 30 outside
- 15 on laundry

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breastarter
organization
- pay remaining balance for the summer hols
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of darks
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- oiling garden furniture
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading