Things for which I am thankful for this week…
1.- Weed of the Week!
2.- I have bought some fat balls for the birds this winter and am awaiting a special caged feeder that will only allow small birds to feed and keep them safe whilst they do it…
3.- Another exhibit from the Museum of the Confluence in Lyon. Another temporary show was one of ceremonial costumes from Mali. What was as interesting as the costumes/masks was the degree of community participation involved with their use – these one are worn specifically by the sons of Blacksmiths who dance through the village at night…
4.- As children, a treat in our family was to have a spoonful of leftover pudding from the night before at the bottom of our bowl of cornflakes and now, the leftovers are more and I can indulge for a few days… This is an apple crumble with walnut halves nestled into the crumble. My sister in Canada says they don’t know what she means by crumble and would refer to this as an Apple Crisp – how about you?
5.- Barbara, who stayed with her daughter whilst I was meeting my friends last weekend, has been intermittently better this week…
6.- I am still getting the odd postcard from the Poetry Postcard festival – I still have 10 or so bonus cards to send replies to…
7.- I am doing a writing challenge called “Deadlines” to write 12 short stories in 12 months and of course, there is a deadline day each month. By the last deadline, on Wednesday last, I had not written anything so I got up at 5am (it was a work day) and completed and posted an 1800 word story by 7.30 – talk about pantsing it! The prompt was “Daisy” and I immediately thought of Daisy in The Great Gatsby and wrote a fan fiction piece about her final demise…
8.- I am making some miniature poetry books for an exchange which I thought was this month but am relieved to find is not until November – in the words of the Fairport Convention song by Sandy Denny “Who knows where the time goes…”
9.- I like to watch 10 minutes of TV while I eat my breakfast and have discovered that YouTube is perfect for this – either I watch a short or I can work my way through a longer item such as a documentary about the story of Fairport Convention the group who invented British Folk Rock…
10.- Online friends here and on other sites, scattered around the world who bring joy and variety to life…
Have your very best week, y’all…