Lanzarote blog — day four, stress, and being at peace with the way things are

Red sky at night — and rained all the next day! Dec 2024. Photo: author’s own. All rights reserved.

I know. Firstly, I know that this isn’t day four. I’ve been here about six weeks now (since early November, but I had a week in Scotland in between). I didn’t start this ‘blog’ at the beginning of our soujourn here. But obviously I’m not posting, or blogging, every day. My days are too full as it is, without adding another task.

Now, having said that, we have been spending a lot of time out and about lately, what with N’s birthday (I’ll write about that on ‘day five’), and having lots of people to meet up with. I’ll be delighted to detox in January — we’re doing ‘Dry January’ again. It’s always rough, the first few days, but once we get into the rhythm, we find there are so many more hours in the day! So perhaps I’ll be able to add a daily update to my routine.

My routine: as things stand, I don’t have much of one. What I do have is the daily yoga practice (now officially up to 69 minutes, but today, I’ll do an hour’s online class, followed by my own yoga nidra practice, so it will probably be a 75 minute session). To this, I add a bit of writing, by the shore, preferably (I did that this morning, and was going to do a yoga session down by the sea, but a strong breeze was blowing, and I hadn’t managed a swim in the last few days and wouldn’t manage one again this morning, the tide being…