Looking up

I’m in a huge traffic jam, engine off.  I’d forgotten about the roadworks, I shouldn’t have come this way. I’m driving to the Oxfam shop rather than my usual walk/bus method as I’m still feeling really nauseous and every smell is amplified by times ten. That said, I had a lovely afternoon with great companions at the shop, and powered through a gigantic two-week pile of books, as I wasn’t there last week. And rather disgracefully, I bought three for myself. See extra
Approaching the big birthday with a mix of melancholy and hopefulness. A combination of losing friends and some health things of my own brings thoughts of mortality, something I haven’t really thought about before. But I want and hope to carry on looking up, and enjoying friends, and seeing beautiful things.  Even in the middle of a traffic jam in the city. 
NB please use the little arrows on the right to get this pic back into focus, somehow it went all fuzzy when I uploaded it