Thoughtful mode.

 I am in 'thoughtful mode' today and really find it  difficult to put into words what I have been thinking  about; and reading all your replies to yesterday's post about farming octopus - all so interesting - have not made it any easier to write today;s entry.   So I am leaving it here for now and off to eat my lovely salad lunch left by my dear carer.   It is mid day and hopefully my mind will be a bit more in order when I return to Blogger.   See you soon.

Back after lunch bloggers and I have to say my son called in and we had one of our 'deep' conversations (well 'deep' for me at any rate, )and when he went, having talked about the subject matter for my today's post, I am deeper in the mire than I was before.   He brought with him Michael Rosen's book  'Getting Better' in which he details his recovery from Covid.   I intend to read that before embarking on my topic for today as he assured me that it might clear the air of my thinking.

So, what to say today on the spur of the moment?  It is a 'warmish' day of spells of warm sunshine and then heavy cloud which cools the air a bit.   But there is no doubt we are on the cusp of Spring - the  spring flowers are all telling us we are almost there and there is no doubt many of the garden birds are well on the way with nesting.   In fact Mr Blackbird is spending most of the day poking about in my front lawn which leads me to wonder whether or not there might be nestlings (or is he just taking tasty morsels for Mrs B?).   Many more purple crocus have appeared and they are now much easier to spot than lone ones.   And dwarf daffodils (tete a tete) have appeared so we are looking quite festive.   Once I have written this I intend to go out and look at them and especially see what is happening in the side garden which I can't see from my window

So -return my reference books to my reading trolley and sit and read 'Getting Better' seems to be the order of the day.   Until tomorrow...