Well here I sit with my coffee wondering what to write.
So I knit and listen to audios, my cardigan is finished and beautifully warm, this comes from using two threads, one of the main colour and the other is 'kid silk' which produces a halo round the knitted garment and 'gingers' the colour up slightly.
Listening to a Kate Ellis book, think it is a new one out 'The Cadaver Game'. Rather gruesome for it covers the hunting of humans instead of foxes. Neither sport is needed! Again the book is written with two threads running through. A historical past wickedness and a modern one in which two teenagers get killed. Am I reading the wrong books I wonder?
Just made the coffee (gave up writing this yesterday) and Sam has arrived, tea for her. She tells me that she and her husband are going to the Midlands to stay in a pod with a hot tub. I burst out laughing and think of my old friends in Normanby with their hot tub in the garden. Hot tubbing is not my idea of heaven in January but she says it is nice to have a bath with a view.
I know spring is not quite on the way but the first bunch of daffodils are in the house. 99p as always, how do they do it? But it is a reminder that the first earlies still come from the fields of Cornwall. In this photo you can see the yellow of Euphorbia, early in April but its handsome leaves provide a backdrop to other flowers later on in the year
Soon, on the first of February will be Imbolc, the Gaelic festival of new birth and spring. In Christianity the date of the saint Brighid. Farmers will be out lambing bringing forth those little delights of scampering lambs, that sadly we eat.
But not to end on a forlorn hope, the Davos meeting gave someone the thumbs down, he was humiliated in the eye of the world, what a blessed relief when the hands of a clock move on and it just may bring lighter relief.
Forgot, I picked this up this morning, guess who it reminded me of?
We have a ways to go before we get to Spring! Very, very cold here but at least we will not get much snow. No school for local children today as they have online learning at home instead so they don't have to go out in this awful cold. No more "snow days" - the teachers give them work to do on their laptops at home.
ReplyDeleteWell snow is promised for Britain from next week, but I think the media say anything for news so we shall see. It is strange that children can learn from home via the computer. Could it be in the future we will all be at home working from our computers Ellen I wonder.
DeleteBurns unit...very good.
ReplyDeleteI've seen those pods on a website and they are rather good in my opinion. Perhaps the hot tub is inside.
It is Burn's Night tomorrow, Sunday the 26th. I don't think I have seen a pod but would not mind a 'tiny house'. They look fun in America but could never happen here as land is always expensive. Thelmax
DeleteBurns unit. Thank you for ending on a humorous note. Things won't be better here until the country comes to know what the world has already deduced.
ReplyDeleteThere is plenty of humour in the world Debby. Never knew the Scandinavians had a funny bone. But there they are sailing their Viking ships to run down the superior forces (well actually it was a cruise liner) that sit like target ducks in their fortress of the White House. Jon Stewart always makes me giggle and there is a British comedian, whose name escapes me at the moment but I shall find him soon. And the battle songs are both cheering and inspiring. Also America is turning against its masters as the full horror show unfolds, so take heart.
DeleteI believe that it is always darkest before the dawn. We can only press on.
ReplyDeleteWell indeed it has become darker with the murder of that protestor in Minneapolis. But an untrained fascist army (or immigrant officers) that has been produced by the regime to batten down civilian protest will hopefully be in trouble soon for its methods.
ReplyDeleteThe Killing of Alex Pritti - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r8fI8DhI0o
ReplyDeleteI haven't watched this yet but it is by Heather Richardson, a calm, sensible American lady who monitors daily on what is happening.