Holding Post…
Could it really be that two months and indeed a whole season have passed me by since I last wrote here? This morning on the way to the shops I was jolted awake by yet another sign of time passing – the rowdy screeching of swifts overhead, the first I’ve heard this year. Despite the cold, it must be summer.
With every passing sign of spring – the first snowdrop, the first lesser celendine, the first wood anemone, bluebell, swallow sighting… I’ve been wanting to write and celebrate. There hasn’t been the time though, so even though I note these changes and absorb their import they have passed here in silence. It’s felt so wrong, and now that I’ve started writing again I can barely collect the discipline together to figure out what I have to say. There are the swallows, and bluebells, and Beltane woods, and a feeling of the headlong rush of life that has broken the banks of spring and flooded into summer already. I feel knocked over and swept away by the flow of it all of it all… and then I have to go and do the chores.
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Welcome back!
Thank you Dr Jay, it’s good to be back!
This year is whizzing by insanely fast! I hope you are well? even though you seem horrendously busy!
I haven’t spotted a swift, so must look towards the sky in the morning! It is normally the 6th that I spot them.
… so hopefully you’ll have seen some today
Isn’t it fascinating that they arrive on the same day every year? Swallows arrive in London on 15th April. Always 15th April, though I saw one once in Epping forest in March – in the snow!
Hope you are doing well too Claire, must come over to your place for a chat
Hi Bird, being off work and I seem to see elements of spring that I usually miss. I saw the first swifts over a lake the other day and grinned, it is good to see them back. In the garden the robin is feeding a scraggy baby who squalks all the time. I have seen lots of butterflies and it felt like old friends returning.
It sounds like you are extremely busy! I hope you are able you slow down a little soon
Oh, I envy you the baby robin, they are gorgeous! We have some nesting nearby but never see them fledge
I don’t mean to make light of your injuries but I guess being able to really connect with the changing seasons must be a bit of a consolation, it has been a beautiful spring this year. There have been a lot of butterflies out – I’ve only seen them when out on walks outside London but brimstone, peacock and orange tip have been everywhere! I’ll be coming over to yours in a bit to see what youv’e been seeing
Hi Bird. I know what you mean. Time does pass so quickly and before you know it, all your plans are left by the wayside. It sounds as though you take care of most important first, though, which is something I need to learn. For all my time (too much) spent on the blog, it really doesn’t show and hasn’t improved one iota.
( Don’t worry, you’ll soon enough find time to write and we’ll be here to read ya! *summer hugs*
Holly thank you, I always worry that when I come back after a long pause everyone will have drifted away and there will be nobody reading any more. I think my readership is small but actually pretty loyal despite my neglect! For that, I am amazed and grateful.
And I think I need to say that you do have a dedicated band of readers on your blog who are very loyal and I count myself as one of them, although I can’t make it online to read every day. We wouldn’t be reading at all if what you did was so sloppy, would we? I know that I aspire to stuff for my blog that is in the end just pie in the sky and never ever makes it out there into the blogosphere, and it drives me nuts. I think we all do that to ourselves. But, although I don’t know what your aspirations are for your blog, what your blog actually is, is something already loved by many. Don’t forget it!