The barn owl

A really stressful day of emails and messages that left me feeling like giving up volunteering. I worked for a few hours this morning which was a good distraction and started listening to a new audiobook (conversations with friends by Sally Rooney). This afternoon I visited my auntie, cousin and her baby - a different experience solo rather than with a very keen 3 year old. This evening the emails and stress picked up again so I switched my notifications off and went into the woods by myself for some ‘Forest bathing’ (basically just sitting and listening to the sounds of the woods). I walked past a barn owl box we put up a few years ago, forgetting it was there and a beautiful barn owl flew out right in front of me. I sat in the woods hiding behind a tree and wall to see if it returned, it didn’t but I used my grandads binoculars to have a chat with him about the barn owl, he would have been so happy to hear.