Finally!

This blip confirms why I post late - you never know what you are going to get till the day ends! It was going to be the extra of the Gaura on the allotment this am. Known as Beesblossom and this one a variety called whispering Butterflies! 
I woke to discover 2 bruises, one above each knee on the inside of my legs - no idea quite how I managed to bruise in this way - maybe my legs fell either side of the log? My left shoulder blade ached too but otherwise remarkably fine after my fall last night! Such a relief as it was my hen open morning!
I was home from the allotment in time for Nellie of The woods who was coming for coffee. I warned her I may ask her to leave at some point as my IBS was playing up - but infact I managed 3 hours of delightful conversation! We discussed mental health as she has gone back to work for 2 days a week assessing people in their homes with Alzheimer's for the local health team - just temporary for the moment covering sick leave. We also talked about wills and material possessions and how the thought ones death could enhance others lives financially was  lovely! Brexit and Trump featured as usual! I realised how although both bring me to despair and outrage, I maintain a calm centre. Whilst I'd rather have not gone through this last year, I can appreciate how it has changed me and the way I think and lead my life, for the better. I think I am less judgemental ( note I say less not non-judgmental!)  more accepting and able to let things go. Maybe it's the meditation and the practise of being in the moment.Maybe it's the happiness Oscar has brought into my life, and the fact I have to remain calm even though I may feel irritated by his obstinacy and manic behaviour at times, my emotions will impact on him and reflect back and make his behaviour worse. Maybe I have just learnt that time is not something one can take for granted - that change is a constant, that my inner and general well being is something I have to nurture. For whatever reason I feel the change is good and I feel centred and balanced and dare I say it, a little wiser? 
After making some tomato soup with the last of my backyard tomatoes and some tomatillos having seen AlanWoodly4'sand recipe, I spent the afternoon reading, napping and playing games with Oscar before it was hen bedtime. I decided he needed a good walk after a quiet day so for the first time in a very long time I walked to the allotment! hens weer all settled, Oscar was well behaved and I didn't fall! There was a lovely pinky glow to the sky, the sound of the rooks gathering in the trees and the scent of this incinerator on the air. I thought it might be my blip! On the walk back I saw my main blip, I could  spot the silhouette of Coteheles folly tower on the horizon the sight of which always pleases me! It's been a long time since I blipped a sunset, mainly as we just don't seem to have been getting them. I had just got in when Nellie of The woods called to drop off some apples  - a bag for me of cookers and dessert apples, and a bag for the hens! 
I rather liked today!