The day to shop. Brush the cobwebs from my car, faithful creature's engine always responds, entice Lucy into the car with cheese and we are off across the newly gritted roads. I haven't bought petrol the last 10 weeks and the tank is still half full. What an adventure!
Our world still in chaos over the virus, there is a sort of will we, won't we attitude. Will children go back to school, some shops will open but with different rules. Restaurants and pub have different problems. The assistants in the Co-op glare at us early shoppers we make life difficult for them coming in early, the aisles have trolleys full of stuff waiting to be stacked.
Talked to friend over the church wall, a cottage recently sold, has been put on the market, with a few lies along the way, at an extraordinary price. Greed where is the end of it? Surely all those people upmarketing houses to make a profit will come to the end of a line.
A friend has just pushed some coffee filters through the door, and tears prick at the thoughtfulness of remembering my moan about lack of them, though now I order from Ebay for all those difficult things that have seemingly disappeared.
Photos from 2017
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| The complicated beauty of honeysuckle, Nigel wants to take cuttings to grow through his hedge, it always reminds me of the wild honeysuckle in Solva |
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| Can you see the mouse? Mouseman has been here at our church. |
Associated Humber Lines had a series of boats named after abbeys, one of which was the MV Byland Abbey, a lovely ship built in 1957 for the Goole-Copenhagen service, known locally as one of the butter boats. Just thought you might like to know that!
ReplyDeleteWell my passion is abbeys, especially Cistercian ones, yours is obviously boats, but then in Yorkshire you probably have some of the finest abbeys in the country, so they need to be remembered. All that wilderness!
ReplyDeleteI have been round a lot of 'our' Abbeys and still find Jervaulx (my nearest) one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteI think Rievaulax is beautiful both in the building and landscape.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sweet, about the coffee filters! Every little kindness like this is extra touching these days... and every friend more treasured, as a fellow-sufferer.
ReplyDeleteIt was also very poignant as well, remembering coffee mornings in the past.
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