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Sunday 18th April, 2021 The first morning for at least a week when I have woken without the sun shining. The forecast had suggested an...

Saturday 17th April, 2021 Again it has been a blistering spring day. The sun was up when I awoke and has remained all day with just an...

Friday 16th April, 2021 The dawn woke me with a burst of sunshine. The day started as sunny, cloudless and warm as the last seven or so....

Thursday 15th April, 2021 Another blistering day. Sun at dawn and uninterrupted and only now setting. I have seen no cloud but noted the...

Wednesday 14th April, 2021 Another glorious day. Glorious days provide their own problems: the garden is gasping for water and all the...

Tuesday 13th April, 2021 I find the news and the comments and the gossip and the tell tales and the rest utterly extraordinary. The new...

Monday 12th April, 2021 An absolutely glorious day. A mild frost but a perfectly blue sky which lasted all the day. I decided to take my...

Saturday 10th April, 2021 I arrived slightly late at Mass. The clock in the kitchen is not accurate and it took time to tie my shoe...

Friday 9th April, 2021 I returned from my afternoon walk to hear that the Duke of Edinburgh had died. May he rest in peace. Many die...

Thursday 8th April, 2021 A gale is blowing still. This must be the fifth day of it and it causes a mild headache and it makes walking...

Tuesday 6th April, 2021 Woke to the perennial blustery cold wind and a sky undecided as to what to do...shine, rain or snow. There was a...

Monday 5th April, 2021 A ferocious almost gale force wind has raged all night and is still with us as I write early afternoon. It is...

Easter Sunday, 4th April, 2021 I am trying not to think of the idiots and crowds who have gotten themselves in the news for fighting, for...

Holy Saturday, 3rd April, 2021 Thank God, I said to myself, that His suffering is over when I woke this morning. I have felt that off and...

Good Friday, Friday 2nd April, 2021 Some restrictions have been lifted in Scotland. More are to be lifted on Monday. A radio programme...

Thursday 1st April, 2021 Had all sorts of ideas for April fools when I awoke but then thought better of it. Yet did do my childhood...

Wednesday 31st March, 2021 Life really is a roller coaster. I always believed one should expect the unexpected but never quite liked the...

Tuesday 30th March, 2021 I am finding it hard to get myself in to the Holy Week mood. Friends have kindly sent me links to talks and...

Monday 29th March, 2021. Breakfast a little ruined when I was informed that not until Friday could one leave home. The 'Stay at home'...

Saturday 27th March, 2021 Woke to sunshine which was unexpected as I had thought the forecast said rain. Landlady off on a Virtualtrip to...