We’ve got a visitor ....
My little sister arrived from Witney, Oxford for a few days. We haven’t seen her since before lockdown started. She has worked like a demon all the way through and hasn’t seen light of day for months as all she does is go to work and go home, slamming the door shut on a Friday night and not appearing until Monday morning when it all starts again.
We had a family lunch out at Park Farm Tearooms on Sunday, our first together since Christmas. So in honour of the occasion I wore my new Palavafolk Circus Parade frock. It’s also my gesture to us missing this year’s storytelling Gifford’s Circus at Blenheim Palace. Hopefully I’ll get to wear it there next year.
I’ve got a couple of new books to read after I finish Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’.
I didn’t think I was going to like it at first, it seemed a bit doom and gloom. But I’ve stuck with it and found it intriguing. Imagine being able to step into a book and it opens up into all the directions your life could have gone if you’d done things differently, taken the choices you dismissed at the time they were happening. A bit like the Gwyneth Paltrow film Sliding Doors.
Next up for reading are these two.
Tamsin Calidas - I Am An Island
Calidas moved to a remote Hebridean island from London. Its her life story and the incredible ability of the natural world to provide when everything else has fallen away.
Sarah Crossan’s - Here is the Beehive
What happens when you lose something the world never knew was yours.
If nothing else during lockdown the range of new authors I’ve read has expanded greatly and I’m loving it.
So today (Monday)after a session at the gym at the physiotherapists I go to, we’ve been over the moor to Yorkshire to Todmorden again to see the new premises of Tod Almighty Wholefoods.
Despite difficult times the folk of our favourite market town have continued to support the local shops and traders are showing their confidence by expanding their businesses.
We had a fabulous lunch in Honest John’s Bar, taking advantage of the last day of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
They use local suppliers for their ingredients and it’s a friendly and welcoming place to visit, whether you just want a pint, coffee & cake or a proper meal.
Walking passed the Age Concern uk shop I spotted these three lovelies in the window and seeing the prices they had to come home with me £9 the lot. I do love a basket or three. I have someone in mind for one of them as I know she has lost hers.
This one is really well made and is quite heavy
A good one for magazines & papers
The Bank Holiday weather has been beautiful and tonight we will be settling down for a bit of catch up telly, Whitehouse & Mortimer Gone Fishing and George Clarke's National Trust Unlocked.
Stay safe everyone
Even though things have eased up a bit
we still need to stay aware
Lynn
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This is the sort of look we will have. I can’t find a photo of the actual fabric made up, but I think you’ll get the idea.
Wish us luck.
