What is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
I am blessed with the spare time to go for a walk and look at my surroundings.  I take photos sometimes. I love the angles and planes in this one.

I am so glad I don't belong to the rat race any more - having a lie in

Today I shall be having a lazy day

Looking forward to tomorrow.  Breakfast at church, which will include bacon rolls and orange juice, light lunch then off to look at lots of gardens in the afternoon.  Lovely.

I was here until 8.25 this morning, I didn't set the alarm last night (deliberately) and I had a lovely lie in.

There is something vaguely anarchic about deciding not to finish reading a particular book.  When I had to read things for school seems to have made me forget that I am free to stop if I am not enjoying it

My hubby had a letter from the GP asking him to come in for some checks.  This, of course, is because he is very, very old (LOL) Now, at church on Sunday we saw a video about a charity called Mercy Ships.  They take a huge ship which has been fitted out as a floating hospital to ports around Africa and offer treatment to people who would otherwise have no access to decent medical help at all.  They really do help the blind to see and the lame to walk.  We complain about waiting lists but imagine what it must be like waiting and just hoping that the ship might come your way.

I overslept!  Off to church in a minute, looks like a lovely day for a walk.

Bank Holiday weekends don't usually mean anything to me as I am at home all the time anyway, but I am looking forward to a long weekend without bathroom fitters.  The picture is one of a group of 4 I did some years ago at our previous house to make a postcard to send to people when I was having a staycation, in olden times when I got paid a wage.

I took a photo of some may blossom as I went up to the post box yesterday and then did a bit of fiddling about with it.  The smell takes me back to the walk along the "cinder track" which was a short cut to primary school.  Not a walk I would allow a small child to do on their own these days, but things were different then.  I am tankful that God and my mother's prayers kept me safe. 

I told myself I would have to just go with the flow this week, and probably next week as well.  It is working and I'm quite enjoying myself!

For the first time in a long time I was able to treat myself to a lie in and I didn't wake until the alarm went off at 8.00

I walked up the road to the post box at lunchtime and it felt like summer - no jacket or cardi and by the time I got back I wished I'd worn a hat.  Then OH and me sat outside with our afternoon tea.  

Just playing around with some patterns today.  I am very pleased with the service that mum is getting from a company called HomeInstead.  She has someone come three times a week (or two when she's here for the weekend) and they are lovely.  The company help older people stay independent and provide a wide range of care, individually tailored to the needs of the person concerned.  They have been a blessing to me too as it has taken a bit of the worry off my shoulders

Sometimes I have a long list of things I want to do and suddenly I am just too tired to finish them. I'm not being lazy, it's just one of those things connected with an irritating but non-life threatening condition.  So, I have learnt to give myself permission to stop and leave things unfinished, tomorrow is another day

You are blessed if you have time to really, really look at the marvels of creation.  Not mountains and canyons, but the tiny details that are so wonderful, and, sometimes weird.  This looks like some sort of chicken embryo to me but if you scroll down you will see what it really is.  I saw it for the first time today, I shall been hunting for more now!

This link No regrets is to a song by The Walker Brothers, Scott Walker being one of my great crushes for more years than I care to remember. The lyrics are totally irrelevant to what I am about to say, except for the title but it gives me the opportunity to share this wonderful voice with you.
So, talking to a few people over the last few days has made me realise that I really do have no regrets about where I am now.  There may be a few in the past but then if those things had worked out the way I wanted I might not be where I am now, so they aren't regrets really.  Crumbs, what a blessing that is.

Those lazy days when nothing much happens but it doesn't matter

I gave the postman a bit of a fright a few days ago.  There was a parcel to be signed for, OH was in the bathroom and I wasn't up, so I had to open the door in my PJs, slightly out of breath from bounding (?) out of bed and running down the stairs.  I tried my best to conceal myself behind the door but it wasn't easy as I had to sign on that silly electric box thing.  As he was leaving he turned back and said "You lucky devil!"  and I thought, yes, I am very fortunate in that there are not many days when I have to get up and be ready to go out early.

I went to my weekly Bible Study yesterday.  Such a lovely group of people, we can talk about anything (and we do) and share things completely openly and honestly and I find it a great blessing to be able to do that