weekend

This was my (wonderful) weekend.

And now it is back to work---of the essay kind and of the revision kind and of the trying-to-hold-it-all-together-calmly kind.

I hope you had a lovely weekend! And are having a happy, hopeful start to the week!

*I'm not really very good at showing my face in photographs---but maybe that one can be excused. That little bundle of fur and I were discussing hay.

easter

My Easter weekend this year was full of friends and family---games in the park, a European market and the best barbecue I have had in a very long time*.

Oh, and glorious, glorious sunshine. The kind that makes you want to laze and laze and laze, basking in it just before it hides away---because you know it will, and soon. This little England can't sustain it for so long---can't free us from the April showers we simply haven't had. But there is beauty in both, I say, beauty in both.

How was your Easter?

*It's best not to mention the baking I did. One new recipe completely failed and another, another mud-pie of a cake that didn't cope quite so well in this heat. But I'll try---then try again.

the weekend

This weekend was proof that falling in love with your best friend really is the most wonderful thing.

Running through fields, being wrestled to the ground (to evade an imaginary crisis), tickling, sitting in the sun, spying on Nessie, watching kids' films, being silly when we're tired, going out to lunch (when we really can't afford to), trying on hats and taking photographs.

Yes, falling in love with your best friend is a really wonderful thing.

*I also went to the library. It took me a lot of courage (and getting over my pride) to announce to the assistant that I actually might have maybe sort of lost my library card. That's right, the one I have had since I was about six---the one that I was so young to have that my mum, in fact, signed it. But it's okay---because if I do find it, she said I could keep it for sentimentality---and probably posterity. And then she handed me a brand new one---a blue one---and didn't charge. I think she could tell that this was quite a big deal. I take my libraries---and my books, in case you didn't already know, very seriously.

mondaymonday

This is what today looked like.

It was a spring walk from seaside village to seaside village.

And a few too many cups of tea along the way.

*Can you see the gravel bird?

on restoration

Maybe it was the mental fog I fell asleep with last night that made today so much better---the comparison between shades of emotion in the shades of the Earth's light. But today really was a good day---today really felt like spring.

(And I found my hat. I couldn't be happier or more grateful to the coffee-shop assistant for that).