The answer to that question depends on context.
Leaving climate emergencies, politics, pandemics and world events out, it has been a quiet week here in suburbia.
The schools are in full cry now which means the scenes outside the sweet shop are like this;
I mean the top right corner of the picture. He went to post a letter yesterday at about half past three and came back saying 'Never Again'; it was almost impossible to negotiate a sensibly distanced path to the post box in among the hordes of children desperate to buy ice creams on the way home.
The main subject of today's picture is a bar of chocolate that has been calling to me from the top shelf of the baking cupboard for a couple of days now. I think it was left over from my godmother's store cupboard last December. I had some, and He's had some, and very soon it will cease to bother us.
What else? We've had scones and tea in a friend's garden - this weather is making things so much easier and more pleasant than they might be - and another friend dropped in after church on Sunday for morning coffee and scones. There's no cake at the moment as we forgot to put eggs (and lettuce and strawberry jam, come to think of it) on the shopping order, so we will have to make do with scones and honey and salad leaves - all full of holes - why? - from the garden. Such deprivation.
It really is hot at the moment. Like Summer. We will have to start watering the garden from this evening or there will be No salad leaves, with or without holes.
The djembe drumming group met for the first time since March. There are just 6 in the group at the moment so we can still meet, (The Rule of Six... sounds like the title of a Young Adult fantasy book) all masked up, sitting in a widely-spaced circle. It takes a lot of thinking about, to prepare the area and then mop up with disinfectant afterwards. It's thinks like remembering to put the chairs back and THEN disinfect rather than the other way round. I did my usual trick of suddenly doubting that I had locked the church before replacing the key in the key safe, in spite of Knowing that I had watched myself put the key in the lock and turn it. I remember that this was a constant problem when I worked entirely on my own in an IT department (yes, no-one else on the premises) and was so stressed out and over-tired that I would go back and check if I had really and truly locked up about three times before I got home. On this occasion I managed to force myself to accept my memory of locking up - whoo-hoo - that's progress!
Piano teaching has started up again. Four lessons yesterday (looks like Mondays are going to be a bit of a heavy day). The other days have just two or three lessons - I'm in no hurry to fill all the spaces in the timetable.
Paintings? (Just scroll down to the end if you are bored)
Wednesday 9th - I'd been having a go at doing skies, so here's a sunset
Well, that's roughly what has been happening, mostly within a few hundred kilometres of when I'm standing at the moment.
Time for a cup of tea...
Always like to see your paintings. Djembe - ooh, we have a whole set of these, really underused, in our choir room and were trying to line up a learning session and work them into Sunday services, just pre-COVID. Who knows when that will happen now.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough no-one in the djembe group is a member of the church! Once this covid business is under control I'll have another go at opening it up. I've just retired from teaching class instrumental lessons in schools; I think djembe and samba were the most popular with children and teachers although the whole school always knew when the lessons were going on!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good week. I play the "have I locked up ?" game too. Love your painting journal.
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