Stalker
Yes, I know. Please don’t @ me. Today Karma decided that R had suffered alone for long enough, and it was time I was also given some stressful, tedious and expensive nonsense to sort out, alongside all the other stuff … Continued
Pinch punch
How can it be April already?? Especially given that I still seem to be bogged down in January’s tasks. I need to sort my life out, and soon. Sigh. I did my best today, spending most of it alternately excavating … Continued
Highs and lows
Concert day involved the usual mad dash to get all my normal Saturday chores done before I had to go over to Campden for final rehearsal, with the added complication today that we needed to make up beds for the … Continued
Evening snack
Recalling what a good time we had yesterday kept R and me going through today’s almost inevitable physical backlash – in my case, my knees whining almost constantly How many steps?? Are you mad???, and my back harmonising from time … Continued
Day of Mourning
It took me a while this morning to realise that the Honey Bee sized bees noodling around the grape hyacinths weren’t actually Honey Bees at all, but Common Mourning Bees (Melecta albifrons). To be fair, this is about ten days … Continued