Today is Candlemas - and there is, of course, a dance for it -

Candlemas is the last day in the season of Christmas and is traditionally, in some places, when you took down the last of the Christmas decorations. It was also the day that you took your candles to church to be blessed for the year ahead - they were then to be a reminder of Christ ( Read more... )

Spring is later this year than last year. This time last year my journal shows that Barbie the camellia was already in flower. This year there are just the first hints of pink on her buds - much as it was in 2022 and 2023 ( Read more... )

The worst of the storm is over now. The wind first woke me around 4am, and was so noisy when I woke at 7am that it was easier to just get up ( Read more... )

Christmas sort of got in the way of this chapter - I had the beginning written but then stopped - and it took me a while to get back into it. Hopefully the next one won't take so long. It will probably be the last one - but you know what the characters can be like ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for a week... I have been doing things, honestly ( Read more... )

I have a new toy! My old Nikon camera was really on it's last legs. It had, for example, forgotten how to format a new memory card, but could no longer store anything on the older one. And the focus could be a bit fuzzy ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, before the weather turned cold and frosty, S2C and I went up to D-d's to take the desktop computer, that he had just replaced with a new one, and install it in NYK2's room. Her brother got the last one - my husband replaces his computer every 3 years or so, and NYK's was definitely the oldest by now as it was the one her brother had ( Read more... )

I have finished boxing up all the Christmas decorations today and putting them into the garage, with a little help from S2C. We are all very traditional in the village; the street decorations were all lit until 12th Night, but not since; and as I drove along our road on Monday almost every house still had all their lights lit, but on Tuesday only ( Read more... )

As the alphabet has 26 letters, and the year has 52 weeks, logically we can do the weekly A - Z challenge twice in a year ( Read more... )

I have done the 365 picture challenge twice over the past 10 years or so. And when I read, in heleninwales' journal last January, about the AtoZ group on Flickr it seemed like a good idea to encourage me to actually look for a suitable picture each week. No commitment to actually take a picture each day, but a specific prompt every week, covering the ( Read more... )