A busy week

A beautiful sunny morning to kick start the new week, but not the best start for me, with the dentist for a check-up, first thing on a Monday morning. I do have an old root canal that needs re-doing, with an additional new crown, but at nearly £2000, I will take my chances!! 

To cheer myself up, I met my friend and old Store Manager up at Middlewick, to take her on her first outing up the Tor. You couldn't see it when I left home, but thankfully the weather improved! Was nice to see her and have a catch up, now she's retired!!

I went into school on Tuesday, to help hang the new exhibition. 

I loved it, right up my street. 

Derek did all the hard work, I was just his assistant! It's looking good. I am looking forward to hosting it after half term. It's the 90th year of Millfield School and there are a lot of extra things in the pipeline to celebrate, hence I'm helping out and freeing up the others to do the extra work! I popped in for an hour to add all the description labels later in the week, and am in again next week to help print, frame and hang 90 portraits!!

I wasn't needed on Wednesday, so I took myself off, over to Ham Wall. I love it there. 

I don't have the patience to sit for hours but I do occasionally get a good 'accidental' shot!

It is so beautifully still, peaceful and calm. 

My second 'happy place' after Stockhill Woods x

You can always guarantee a good capture of a robin, great tit and a bonus wren on this visit.! 

On Thursday morning I met up with Lynn before work. 

It was a frosty one, so we headed up Wearyall Hill to take in the views. 

There's still so much water on the Levels.

I came home to the most cheerful delivery waiting for me. Emily Powell is the artist I visited back in November, on my way back from Cornwall. She is the most colourful, creative talent, and if I ever won the lottery, I would fill my whole house with her work. She has a new exhibition opening soon down in London, at the Portland Gallery. This is the catalogue of her work 'Paintings on Prescription'. The next best thing to going to the exhibition in person.

Friday and Saturday were awful weather wise! Grey, dull, damp, cold, just plain miserable! I was supposed to be meeting my friend Claire on Saturday over at the Newt, but we cancelled! She was going to be coming from Cheltenham, so not worth it. I spent the day instead, sorting myself out!!! It's just 6 weeks until Sophie and I got to Italy for a few days and I want to be at least half a stone lighter, if not more!!

I have to watch a few podcasts, look back through some meal pics, just to motivate, inspire myself to take action. I hate a countdown but sometimes I need it! It's still a little cold to completely come out of hibernation but I have to make a start!

So I decided to get out and walk this morning! 

One leap too many!! 
Was too far into my walk to turn back!
And one muddy backside to show for it!

I had initially gone up to school to take a few photos of the spring bulbs flowering...

...then got distracted by the sculptures! 

It was such a lovely morning, I decided to do the loop across the fields!!! 

That was my mistake!

 Everywhere is still so wet and muddy! 

But I'd got to a point, where I was too far in to turn back. I did actually land where I'd hoped but my foot slipped and that was me, in a muddy heap!! Still, it's all been washed and been out on the line. No harm done, other than my bruised ego and bottom!!

I cheered myself up with a healthy lunch.

 Toasted sourdough, topped with avocado and soft boiled eggs! 

All in all, a good, positive start!!

So, another week done and another beckons. 

I have kept next week relatively free, so I can help up at the gallery once they are ready. Jeff breaks up on Friday for half term and I am meeting Sophie in Bristol in the evening for a theatre jolly! We've kept half term relatively unplanned too, as we're taking up the old carpet and I have to focus on painting the staircase and skirting boards before the new carpet arrives in a couple of weeks time. S&S might come home for the end weekend. We have a coupon to use, for a free National Trust visit and I'm meeting a friend one evening, but the rest is open to whatever!! Let's hope the weather improves.