Tale ends

Today, predictably I guess, I've been tired and sore after my exertions and excursions yesterday...but I'm exceedingly grateful that I went out and have such a fine reason for being rather floppy and unproductive today. I haven't some much more than breathing, blinking, heating up leftovers and operating the remote control...but these are suitably Sundayish pastimes anyway...

I'm grateful I've finally cut out the main pattern pieces for the dark brown trousers. I waved the vacuum at the rug on preparation for this once before this week and then left it and it got bitty again, so it was touch and go for a while today that I'd do it again and then have a little rest eating Eccles cakes without a plate or some other crumb creating activity

I'm grateful I've come up with Plan G (or whatever it must be by now...) for cleaning my high up and awkward opening windows. I've only done a cleaning rehearsal, you understand...someone with stronger (and preferably longer) arms than me must actually do the work but I have a process in mind and I'm going to make a specialised piece of equipment on my sewing machine when I get round to it ready for when they do!

With two books on the go and nearing the final pages of both I've been slowing down reading as I'm rarely happy with 'ends'...writing them or reading them or watching them on small screen or larger. It's taken me a while to realise that of course an 'end' is purely a narrative construct as there's no such thing in any description of events...factual or fantastic. The states of states and things are always changing, and through my own struggles to come to the bit where you stop telling the story in an elegant and appropriate fashion I'm beginning to grasp that's why they so often fail to satisfy. I'm very grateful for that.

I'm also grateful for a small firm pear...well, two actually - a pair of pears just the way I like them! For some reason my fruit preferences used to make people snigger when I mentioned them in the workplace. I give thanks that I can't hear you...  But before I leave punderland for slumberland I just thought I'd share this picture of spring bulbs with you. Pay attention at the back...