So far today I've managed to keep to the 8dea of just three 'events' in one day...
First; meeting the estate agent at my father’s flat.
Second; joy oh joy oh joy - my first real walk of the tear! After the meeting we drove to Nymans Gardens. The weather is properly spring-like today at long last.
We braved the queues in the café and emerged with drinks and pasties, and sat outside in the sunshine in a sheltered corner. The café was sufficiently busy that we both wore masks - it must be obvious to any passers-by why we consider it necessary if they saw the oxygen cylinders we wore like backpacks! (One for now, one for later).
There was an unruly gaggle of rooks keeping an eye out for opportunistic snackery... they sort of crash about from one tree to the next in the heedless way groups of young people do when they are out for a 'jolly'.
I walked a small loop around the gardens. There were quite a few couples around, mostly, it seemed to me, out for their first dodder along the paths 8n the sunshine. None of us (apart from our minders!) looked altogether steady on our feet and a fair number were propped up with sticks and rollators.
Still, we staggered along; I felt as though I ought to be handing out rosettes for effort!
Here's what we might have seen as we ambled round;
I was glad to get back to the car; yes, I was breathless, but it was my knees and hips and legs that were protesting at all this new activity after months of staying mostly indoors. I'll have to make a point of going out when the weather is good.
Later today it will be time for the third event; a preliminary site visit by the company I hope will do the groundworks for the extension at the back of our house. Early stages, early stages...
I was searching youtube for something Spring-like' but found this instead. Fair dos, a good many bloggers that I follow are still living in the depths of winter with spring weather some way off.
John Field, Nocturne in E minor played by Alice Sarah Ott.
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