Well warned ...

Apologies to blippers who see my Facebook posts for repeating my early morning photo, but it was by far the most spectacular thing in my day, really. I think it must have been the red sky that woke me - I've stopped shutting the curtains at night since the misty mornings arrived, but the red light seems to have permeated my I-might-waken-up-soon dreams and had me out of bed and searching for my phone at 6.45am. By the time I sneaked back to bed for another snooze the sky was grey, and that's how it's been all day since. 

Pilates was immense fun this morning - only 5 of us turned up, and amusingly stuck to our usual places in the studio so half of the space remained empty. We laughed a lot, but we also worked really hard so that halfway through the afternoon I was ready just to slide away upstairs and sleep again. However, I ended up walking up to church to see how Himself's experiments with an amplifier on a borrowed keyboard sounded ... and then we had a little walk in the Bishop's Glen ... 

I'm going to stick in a couple of extras from the Glen. It's been a favourite walk of mine since my children were toddlers; once I found myself halfway down the bank into the then reservoir because I'd found some succulent brambles; my firstborn was strapped into his McLaren buggy at the top of the dam laughing, and it struck me that if I fell into the water I might not ever get out and ... and... 

I may have told that story before. (I didn't fall in and the infant survived.) Today there was an intense stillness over the water, broken only by the wake of a duck, and no birds sang. By the time I got home I was realising that the total exhaustion I was feeling was compounded by my not really having eaten enough for lunch; add a dash of hypochondria and you're well away. 

I have a bad feeling about the vaccination passports: not that I'm against the concept, but I fear the execution will not be smooth. There are already troubles arising from different countries' passports not transferring ...

But I'm not going to think any more tonight. Extras are a photo of the reservoir that used to be our water supply, and one of some amazing fungi under the trees. And now it's raining.