In the pink

 Did you buy many clothes during lockdown? I had been consciously cutting back prior to last year anyway, but going nowhere and doing nothing certainly made it easy not to think about having anything new. Not Dead Yet stopped posting outfits from women all about the world so I wasn't looking at my choice of clothes with any critical eye. But then I got a longing for colour and for a swishy skirt. A look online at the Boden sale delivered the goods. How cheering!

And it really does swish!

I bought a pair of trousers in the same colour in the sale while I was at it.

Constant heavy rain today and I'm confined to quarters, wearing a linen babygro/all-in-one/ jumpsuit. Blissfully comfy and such a cheerful colour. 

I hope that you are feeling in the pink as well.

I hope that you are feeling in the pink as well.

Nearly normal!

The local library service is back in action after many months of closure. The mobile library stops right outside our gate but it no longer gives a loud blast on the horn so we have to keep an eye on the time so that we don't miss it.

Having enjoyed Kate Atkinson's 'Big Sky' I ordered  more of her work and three novels were on the bus for me to collect. It is useful to pre-order because the choice on the shelves is very limited. I don't need to enter the bus as the librarian can just hand the books out to me. It is a wonderful service but one that is always under threat of being lost.

The three books all feature Jackson Brodie. I've read the first two books and am about to start on 'When Will There Be Good News?' .It is interesting to read one book after the other like this because you really see the pattern of the author's writing style. The criticisms  of 'Big Sky' apply to these books as well, a rather similar voice for different characters and a bit too much going on. You do know that it is all going to end with Brodie as hero, the good winning, the bad punished, so you could say that they are comfort reads, not quite like real life!

Nearly normal? Yes - I haven't been able to get a dental check since March of last year. (My dentist is from Portugal) and my hairdresser has been pinged, so it is craft scissors and the bathroom mirror for me. Perhaps this is the new normal.