On the Up

Has this been the longest Winter in history Col?  A few weeks ago, in the wee small hours, our clocks sprang forward over here into Spring, well, BST.  We had beautiful sunshine the following day as if to celebrate, but it was short lived and for the most part, the chilled air and the cloudy skies persist.

I'm more than ready for sunshine Col, seems to have been so long since I've felt any warmth from our sun and my bones fee positively brittle from the cold.

Things are finally improving generally though, I was thinking about this yesterday and have pinpointed the change rightly or wrongly to the eclipse on my birthday last year.  Since then, things have started to look up, not up and up, (January was the pits,) but on the whole, I seem to have a new found "can do, anything is possible" attitude.  There once was a time when everything, anything seemed almost impossible, now, nothing seems impossible, difficult, far fetched, a reach, but not impossible.

Your eldest is engaged to be married, (still can't get over that.)  I am "on his list" and I'd confirmed within two weeks that I would be there.  (Authorised with work etc.)  I hadn't planned on heading to NZ for a few years yet, work needs to be done here, my car has clocked over 102K so, it just wasn't on the radar for anytime soon, however, I've committed that I'm coming, I'd already committed to myself that I would, come hell or high water, have a new kitchen this year.  Everything here is old and needs either refreshing or replacing, it's at the stage were I can't do just one room because one leads on to another.

Well it's all going to be OK.  It might take me two to three years to do everything I need / want to do but that's OK, and by this time next year, I'll have spent a wonderful couple of weeks with you and the family and will have witnessed a dear hearts special day.