Pic of the week 7/1/24
So a new year – we already seem a long way into 2024, perhaps it was having to go into school for INSET on Tuesday 2 Jan and then starting on 3rd, and we are already a week into the new year, the holidays seem a long time ago!
Its been a wet week, by Thursday evening it felt it had been raining for months, and flooding was beginning to occur once again, but by Friday morning it had stopped, we saw some blue sky – the first since Malaga – and Becky snapped the above. But the temperature has now dropped, its got cold and although today did have some sunshine, there was a stiff wind and it has felt very cold, and promises to be this way for the next week. I don’t like the cold. Even with crisp blue skies and sunshine (a rarity) the cold has little to commend it. Some people take great joy from hunkering down, donning another jumper and beating the chills – not me. I shall be happy when the warmth returns. My mood is lifted, though, by the sight of bulbs poking their heads bravely above ground level and there are many that are doing so, in my pots, the trough, and my lawn.
So with a new year I should have new aspirations, plans and resolutions. To be honest, I don’t. I will run – 500K in the year is a good target (I fell well short of that last year, largely because of my foot, but towards the end of the year I re-found my bounce and began running my 10Ks again) I want to continue with my Spanish, I feel in the latter half of last year I made real strides and I want to continue that, and I want to write more – on my maths blog, but also get myself a cheap laptop and blog whilst away. On a practical note, I do need to re-roof my shed, and it would probably be sensible to have a sort through it. If there is anything I really ought to do this year (and I have made a start, albeit only baby steps thus far) is horde less and get rid of more stuff. Now there’s a challenge for 2024 …