Around here
It’s snowing this morning. I’d looked out when I first woke, around 6.15am, to see if it had showed overnight, but there was just a light dusting. Two hours later when we got up, we opened the curtains and got a bit more of a surprise!
I thought it was time for a bit of a catch up. I need to record somewhere that I have finally finished my Christmas journal! It was a funny one this year, with all the time in the world to record the events that were not happening and with little motivation to do that. But with sixteen such journals on the shelf, I really didn’t want to have a gap where 2020 should have been, so I soldiered on.
The pages don’t record anything spectacular, but at least they will remind me of what December 2020 was like and what we were (not) doing!
Having completed the Christmas jigsaws and enjoyed them, we bought fresh challenges, both of us feeling we’d bitten off more than we could chew!
I put the last pieces into the sky yesterday morning. I hadn’t realised the difficulty of completing a jigsaw where there were no well defined lines - the impressionist, brushy style of this painting proved really hard to work out as the colours blended together.
I had fallen for another jigsaw when I ordered that replacement and wasted no time in getting started. This one is a little clearer and I feel that progress will be more satisfying. My Hero is persevering with his Albert Bierstadt painting!
We’re not really going out much. My Hero goes to visit Bettine every couple of days, we do our (and her) weekly shop and last week, for the first time, a local baker brought a van full of goodness to a nearby pub car park. By the time I reached the front of the queue, he’d sold out so this week, I got there super early. Still not early enough to be more than 7th in the queue, but thankfully, in time to snag a bag filled with good things.
Two great loaves: a Khorsan seeded sourdough and a cheese and marmite loaf, two croissants for breakfast and two scruffins because….well, just because!
In other things, I’m teaching an online course I spent the first lockdown writing and reached a stage where I needed to put a short list together as part of last week’s webinar. Why not apply some of the course material to that and show the list as a flatlay image? Around here right now, I’m just one of a bunch of fifteen or so colleagues who are more aware of shelfies, tablescapes and flatlays than usual, not to mention applying colour theory to tell visual stories. All good fun and it would be even more so if we could predict when we will be able to get together to complete the face to face part of the course.
Oh, and I’m finding it hard to keep going on the second of a pair of mittens which were intended to be a Christmas present for my Hero!
I’m quite pleased with myself for having learned about Latvian Braid!
So yesterday morning, looking through the window at such a beautiful landscape and knowing it was freezing cold out there, it was no hardship to stay cosy and warm indoors! We knew that snow was forecast and our phones had bleeped with a “Yellow Snow Warning” (which always makes me smile) This morning, the white outlook makes me feel ever more thankful that we have nowhere to go and a few things to keep us busy!
