…in my garden today. No rain! We had high winds but a fabulous sky and bright sunshine.
It is such a welcome relief after ‘the great storm’ which actually wasn’t that great here.
I hope you were warm and dry if it passed your way?
Looking up at the Cherry in flower again! and down at the Bay about to flower in November? Nature’s gone mad.
Thank you for this lovely meme Helena.
…by the Houses of Parliament in London
A guest post!
My lovely husband sent these pictures from his phone while he was out of the office for lunch this week.
He found it incongruous to be sitting on a bench with two very nice and very funny homeless guys looking over at the seat of power in this country.
They didn’t comment when he took the picture of the Houses of Parliament, I suppose everyone does that but they wanted to know why he was taking a picture of the pigeon. He told them it was for me, that I took pictures looking up and down each week. They began to laugh. One said, about the other, “Oh! he looks up and down a lot too, up at the stars at night and down at the pavement in the morning”.
I would have avoided the men but my husband engaged with them, they talked to each other and they made him laugh especially when he asked them where they would sleep tonight. Apparently they were fed up with the Dorchester and the Savoy, they thought they would find somewhere else tonight….
“To define is to limit.” ~Oscar Wilde
Thank you Abi at Creating Paper Dreams for this lovely idea.
I am exhausted watching wind and rain
My neighbour, a tougher gal than me,
Fetches these covers back every day!
Alexa at Trimming the Sails invites us to share a moment of our lives at around this time each month.
This is mine for October 2013.
I’m sitting here stirring my cappuccino. I wish I could remember what all the different coffees are like but I can’t so I always order cappuccino. This one seems to be mostly froth that needs a lot of stirring.
The lunch was lovely: Italian and one of the best we have had over the last few months.
J is unhappy; she can’t seem to move on with her life after her husbands passing almost two years ago. I’m not judging, it is how it is. I have invited her out with me to a new lunch group next week. I hope that will give her a lift.
S the middle one, is being driven nuts by her mother. She has a trip to her son in Australia booked for Christmas but it is causing her such a lot of stress.
S the elder is just unhappy or “up and down” she says. I ask her which is more frequent? “Down” she says. My heart sinks.
S the younger is full of her woes but she is always laughing. This time she has hurt her wrist and she has had an incident with a caravan but still she laughs. She makes us all laugh.
M is the most stressed among us, with good reason, she had tears in her eyes today but still she laughs.
I had been tasked with organizing a Christmas lunch for us all but the plans I brought to the table have been scuppered! I am feeling flat.
I decided to be in this moment for Alexa’s Simply a Moment today, 16th October. I thought it would be a good time to write about. And this is it!
I have three choices:
Write as it is…really
Choose another moment
Make something up
I have decided that life isn’t always a bowl of cherries, so publish. I’ll get over it.
Thank you Alexa
Twisted this way and that
Different sizes, different shapes
Together forming a pretty green canopy
Much like our lunch group
Thank you Abi One Picture Twenty Words
And Thank you Amy for inspiring me to do it this morning
P.S. I’m over it!
Honeysuckle Blossom in the middle of October!
but as its raining it keeps things in perspective
Honeysuckle Leaves and a bonus bejewelled spiders web
Thank you Helena