spring's back 23:52:09 on Sunday, March 7 2010

What an absolutely glorious day! There has been a very bitter "chill factor" of that there is no doubt, but the sun has shone and the sky sparkled. 

I stayed at home today and it has been good to be here, just doing "home stuff" - pottering, as I put it.  I was utterly lazy this morning - I slept late after a late night (kitchen sink drama's) and spent my day around the cottage and the garden and Billy and I went out for a lovely stomp through the fields.

Despite the cold air, for several hours I had the back door wide open - letting the sunshine and fresh air in to the house, and I washed and dried all covers of the sofa - I am sitting here on a sofa that smells luciously of persil!  I took cushions outside and beat them - thumping dust out of them!  I cooked.  I chatted on the phone.  I toured the garden looking at the progress of new shoots and admiring the first flowers of spring to come into bloom. 

Nothing glamorous or exciting and nothing to write home about really.  But it has just been good to be here, be taking a few hours out and to really - really - enjoy and cherish my wee home.  It's looking just fine. 

Billy and I had discussed the possibility of returning to the sea for a billydog walk but I changed that plan in the end as I decided that today was to be a car free day (oh and speaking of the car, yesterdays triumph was getting the vacuum cleaner out and blitzing the inside of the car, and then taking it down to the petrol station for a carwash - I have a shiny happy car at last!)  I am glad we (I) decided to stick with a walk through the fields - it was bitter and cold and down by the sea it would have been several degrees colder.  And as we walked we bumped into friends and chatted.  First of all we saw Kate, from two doors down, with her 3 tiddlywinks - 2 out of 3 small people were out practising their bike riding skills - and small person number 3 was snoozing peacefully in her pram.  In the fields we met more friends and as I stood and chatted Billy ran around with absolute and unquestionable spring fever.  It's amazing the transformation a few days makes - when we went out earlier this week the fields were sodden and within minutes of starting a stomp Billy was up to his tummy in water and wetness and filth.  Today he came home dry and relatively mud-free (Praise Be!)

So there we go, I've just been 'being' today, that's all, and that's okay with me.  A human being and a human doing who's glad to see the sun.

Deep breath, a new week is about to kick off.  A hectic one....

Al

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