Truly, gladly, deeply

I give thanks for a long deep sleep...and some very strange and entertaining dreams as well! For sunshine streaming in my windows this morning and a cup of tea and piece of toast and marmalade in bed. There's been a hailstorm with a rainbow just outside the kitchen window since then...it's all good! 

For the kitchen itself looking in a state of disrepair because we've started making good the water damage from upstairs rather than because of the water damage...huge psychological difference there... For hearing from someone who was struggling to keep the peace between two competing sources of help with a problem... and remembering that sometimes there is something worse than not enough! For finding a place that sells reconditioned Streaks...at very little more than the cost of getting this one repaired.

To Peter for offering to come round tonight with a takeaway or to cook for me...just what I could do with! And for watching my favourite episode of Human Planet again last night...the one about rivers, with the centuries old river mud mosque getting a fresh coat in time to protect it from the rains, the man crossing the torrent on a wire to fish, the children travelling for six days across the ice to get to school and the generations co-operating to build living bridges of tree roots. The tree root bridges are one of my favourite things ever...if you haven't seen them, they look like this http://rootbridges.blogspot.co.uk/