Week 6/2024

Pearl, and the first primrose

Hello, I hope you have had a lovely week.

I want to kick off by apologising for my absence last week - I know you all have busy lives and most probably no-one noticed but I do try to keep this post weekly. Some of you will have seen in ‘chat’ that my beautiful nana died last week (thank you for your lovely messages). She lived nearby and I had been privileged to be quite involved in her final days and it has just been a very sad time, and I just thought it was better to step away and take a breather than to just soldier on. It is sad but it also good, a relief for her. I have been thinking a lot about grief, of course, and about the pressure to push on through it, and I think it is closely related to some of the things we have talked about on here, about the seasons and the year: there are times in the year that are for stopping, diving deep, wrapping ourselves up and protecting our core selves. And it’s the same in life. I think it’s best to do that stuff when the moment hits and the feelings are big and new, and I have been, so thank you for your patience.

Pearl Dora Roberts 1923-2024

But I am now very keen to get back into our weekly post and I hope you will help me in getting it all going again. In this weekly post I tell you about something seasonal and particular I have noticed or done in the past week, and then you take to the comments and tell me yours. We are going to do something a little different for a while, as I try to catch up on work and write The Almanac 2025, which, to be quite frank, is looking a little threadbare right now…. Each week instead of three things I am going to tell you one thing I have noticed, and then you are going to tell me yours (yours can be as many as you like). Instead of the weekly ‘poem’ we are now going to have a big, beautiful, bumper monthly poem on the last day of the month. So these posts will now act as gathering places for your comments. I think it will work, and it will also free me up to get that book written, which I know quite a few of you want. Let’s try it and see.

Here’s mine:

The first primrose

This was in a bank and I was so admiring the snowdrops I almost didn’t notice it. Of course it was going to be snowdrops this week but…the primrose stole the show.

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Now tell me yours. What have you spotted/bought/eaten/made/felt this week that felt particularly ‘this week in the year’? Please do keep each other company in the comments and have a look back after you have left yours to see what everyone else has been up to. Feel very free to chat away x

PS We missed our ‘usual place’ pics that we normally do on the 1st Sunday of the month on chat. This will now happen on Sunday coming so get your pics lined up.