Distant Memories

In Banbury, meeting Jamie and collecting Bella before the next stage of his time away.  He's off to a church camp in Kent with his Mum and Clara's family.   Wandering through the town and picking up some lunch for him, I spotted this memorial, with a cross atop and the tune of a nursery rhyme began whispering it's words in my head.

I'd driven down from Ruth's in just under an hour, glad I was not caught in the huge build up of stationary traffic coming towards Birmingham, held up by an accident in roadworks.   By the time I returned, several hours later, it had just about cleared.  I was pleased to pick up twenty clay pots in a Banbury superstore as having returned to using clay for a few bulbs last winter, I want to grow more that way.   Sadly I left a huge number of long neglected clays in the Norwich garden back in 2019.

A slow afternoon at Ruth's, she's not at her best at the moment but we did get the dogs out to Cotteridge Park for an hour late afternoon, the sunniest bit of the day in Birmingham.   It was almost dusk before I left Ruth and just past midnight when I arrived home.   And breathe.