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
Slough of Despond
Today was forecast to be overcast, but fine, so we were completely caught out when it began raining, quite hard and wetly, part way through our riverside walk in Stratford. You know that thing people like to say about there … Continued
Mother’s Day
Is it Mother’s Day, though, or would Mothers’ Day be more appropriate? I have all the flowers, obviously, courtesy of my lovely Offspring, and I ate all the cake, courtesy of R’s generosity and my own shameless greed. But I … Continued