Sunday 26th April - what a beautiful day...

In the garden after lunch; 

I'm trying to avoid what I think of as 'work' on Sundays... that's roughly defined as 'anything I don't want to do, that doesn't need to be done today'. It's working well so far. 

After lunch (salmon en papilotte cooked in the air fryer with boiled potatoes tossed in a little butter, and spinach, followed by banana custard, should you be interested) I took my coffee and knitting into the garden and sat on the bench for nearly an hour. The chuntering of the oxygen concentrator was muted to a background rumble so it felt closer to silence than it does indoors. Instead I could hear the little solar fountain, and birdsong, and the clap of pigeon wings as they flopped onto a branch. 

It was almost as if I could hear the whole garden relaxing, expanded, growing. It felt as though if I listened carefully enough I would hear the leaves growing, and the sound of the ants and beetles scurrying across the patio.

Here's another prayer from the Angela Ashwin book of 1000 prayers from our last home-group meeting;

I hope you have a good week.