I decided to write some letters today, just because I liked writing the date: 21.1.21. Mind you, I thought 2020 was going to be a great year just because of the dates you could write like 02022020. How wrong I was! 2020 will definitely be a year to remember but not for necessarily good reasons! It’s rather sad that letter writing has gone out of fashion. Receiving an email isn’t quite the same as a hand written letter plopping through your letterbox. R and I are receiving our mail in a very 21st century fashion, only possible because our son is so media savvy. He’s opening our post and then scanning it into a Google drive folder which we have access to. We just have to remember to check the folder, if we can remember where to find it! There is only a certain number of times I can get G to explain the system to me without him thinking I am a total numpty!
Our walk today was the muddiest yet even though the day itself was dry and relatively warm and sunny, although at times there was a keen wind. We went to find the address of one of our friends from home who lived here many years ago and had told us that he had built the garden wall of his house. We took a picture so he could see it was still in good nick, infact it was very decorative and I was most impressed! Walking on from there we found ourselves in an extensive wood which although was lovely to see, proved incredibly tricky to walk through. There was an area marked out as a bluebell wood so we headed in that direction. The bluebells obviously were not out but it was encouraging to see lots of green shoots peeping through the ground. The downside to all this was the mudbath situated throughout the pathways on the top of a hill. I kid you not, at one stage we were over our ankles in mud and puddles of water. A very unpleasant sensation! Good for the thigh muscles as we had to really keep a grip on how we were walking so as not to slip on our behinds. I didn’t fancy a pile of muddy clothes in the boat and the challenge of cleaning them.
Eventually we found our way out of the woods, fairly near to the canal. It was a pleasant couple of miles walk back to our boat but I was shocked by the extent of flooding on our left as we walked along the towpath. No doubt it will disappear quickly enough once the rains stop. But it was rather sad to see a children’s play area totally awash.
Started watching The Queens Gambit on Netflix which has been well recommended and was gripping enough for us to watch two episodes. That followed a physics lecture given by a friend from church who is also a scientist. I was never any good at physics at school. The only concept I ever understood was conduction and I think that’s because I have an Aga so am interested! However APs lecture was well received tonight by those attending. I love his enthusiasm for the subject but I don’t think I’ll ever be a physicist!
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My mother will be 100 on 02022022, I never forget her date of birth!
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