The second image shows the early stages of a painting that became very important to us – no way of knowing how it would have ended up.
Grateful we have other creatures though.
And so much more! Some of the paintings make special cards (but PLEASE do not use them for this…)
This post is a little indulgent. It will be of great interest to some of us – but I appreciate that won’t be the case for everyone. I wanted to do it though – and I don’t promise it will be the last!
Goodbye to all that…
A lot of work (and definitely not looking forward to getting it all back in the roof) but plenty of fun stuff in between!
Hope you all managed some peaceful time – Christmas is certainly still magic for me.
And, of course, Happy New Year!
By the time I was free to plant those 200 odd last bulbs, it was looking like this outside….so it was not the (awful) weather that got in the way and thwarted me but unexpected visitors (delightful) and pitch darkness!
So I did this instead:
And then I cleared away some of the claptrap (including that cork) that the camera had unkindly picked up… It hasn’t really been cold enough yet to ‘need’ the fire but it does make a big difference to the mood of the room. We don’t seem to hang around in there in the summer, it feels unfinished somehow with an empty grate – even stuffed with flowers. Sometime in the next couple of weeks I will have to face up to blackleading the fire surround – down on my knees scrubbing at the filthy stuff like the original Victorian maids, though fortunately for me not much more than an annual rather than a daily chore!
Will try to tick off those bulbs tomorrow.
The month that nearly got away – just one hour left for a blog post.
If there can be such a thing as a ‘whirl of indecision’, then that characterised December round here. And no doubt all over the country too – travel plans made and scrubbed, food ordered and frozen, turkeys NOT bought till the very last minute, then mysteriously out of stock….overloaded at work, then suddenly ordered home by the phone app. on the very day my daughter and her little people came out of isolation….
But of course I understand why – and I do appreciate how thoughtfully protected I have been at work (teaching in a secondary school) and how lucky we are to have escaped the virus so far.
There were some peaceful moments too – and even a rather productive space in the unique time frame now apparently known as ‘Twixtmas’.
The pictures above were taken on Christmas Eve.
Happy New Year from SpinningStreak.
Baking with a four year old
Spinning with a four year old (didn’t last long….)
Reading stories, making dens – all the usual stuff.
But meanwhile, outside:
Yikes! It’s started.
SpinningStreak 