Weekly Photos 22nd to 28th March 2026

Hmm not the best week for photos!

This was Sunday morning.  The parakeets were waiting for food.

Monday - these were over a week old then but still looking ok.

Tuesday was the day I did some jobs in the garden.  A tidy shed area and fairy lights!

Wednesday - nothing to see here! I forgot to take a picture :(

Thursday - I took this on my way home form the Foodbank.  I just liked the cloud formation in the blue sky.

Friday - progress on the jumper and Mr (or Mrs) Squirrel having a feast just after I had filled the bird feeders up.  He/she just seems to know somehow when there's new food.

Saturday morning v Saturday late evening.

I thought it might have actually gone past midnight but according to my camera I was still on Saturday - just - when I put the last piece in.

I find doing a jigsaw quite relaxing but it's also a bit addictive.

I'm still not quite in the habit of taking a photo every day but I have already taken one today so that's next week started.

#SoCS - 28/3/26 - Portrait

Linda provides the prompts for #SoCS and the link up is here.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “portrait.” Use it way you’d like. Have fun!

Why is it that when you take a selfie which is just another word for portrait, the result never looks the same as what I see in the mirror?!

Short and sweet.  I was at the Foodbank all morning dealing with deliveries so I'm off for a sit down and possibly a nap.  Hope no one takes a portrait of that.

Friday's Fave Five - 27/3/26

Thanks to Susanne for reminding us each Friday to count our blessings and then share them here.

I'm still using the Tulip picture even though Spring seems to be a bit undecided this week.  My tulips are beginning to droop a bit too but there's still plenty to be thankful for:

1)  We did have enough sunshine on Tuesday to do some tidying in the garden.  I put up some fairy lights too and I've ordered a couple of tree shrubs and a couple of lavender plants to fill a gap.

2)  Rubbish to the tip.  Hubby did this on Wednesday - there wasn't much but it was making the garden look untidy!

3)  Wardrobe clear out - I did this on Monday and hopefully a charity will pick up the bags of things I cleared out today.  Various charities do roadside collections so I put my 3 bags out this morning.  One bag has already disappeared!

4)  Efficient library service.  The evening book group picked out 3 books at our last meeting to hopefully give us reads for the next couple of months and the library already has copies of all of them.  Plus a book I reserved was also there for me to collect this week.  I love my library.

5)  One of our nephews has just announced that he and his wife are expecting a baby in October.   The tribe doesn't stop growing!

Today is feeling quite wintry again - low temperature and quite cloudy.  I wish Spring would make up its mind!

Have a good weekend all.

Read then Write - 26/3/26

Well the big news here is that I got through an audio book at the weekend!

I wrote about it on my #SoCS post here.  As I mentioned there I've not been a big fan of audio books and this was borrowed accidentally from the library.  I don't think I'll be making a habit of it as I did find it hard to concentrate on it.  Even though I wasn't in bed and about to fall asleep.

Thankfully though it has kept my reading tally on track.  I'm actually 2 books ahead of schedule but this has been quite a slow week for reading.

I've been busy knitting in the evenings, although one evening I did start a new jigsaw puzzle and I've been going to bed quite late so I haven't read much of my current book "The trouble with Goats and Sheep" but I'm aiming to finish it by the end of the weekend.

I also got another book out from the library yesterday:

This is the first in the Karen Pirie series.  I recently read #6 that had been passed on to me so I thought I'd check out the first and go from there.  My library is quite efficient at getting book reservations in.  I really need to have some earlier nights and fit in more reading time!