Hello everyone, thank you for your kind comments left on my last blog post. I haven't been able to reply individually this time, but they are appreciated as always. Thank you to everyone who visits my blog. Whether you leave a comment or not you're welcome.
As it's Friday I'm joining Five on Friday. Amy at Love Made My Home blog hosts the link-up. Thank you Amy.
Showers and sunshine in the Walled Garden:
On two occasions this week when I've been in the walled garden next to the library in the park I took some photographs as I like to record what's been happening each season. On one day there was the evidence of the rain that had occurred in the morning and on the second occasion it was sunny.
showery weather
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| a variegated periwinkle in flower |
and then a sunny day
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| a tree peony (it's a huge specimen) |
More tulips!
Below - a part of our daughter's garden which she created
from a plot covered in gravel when she moved into her new house
just before Christmas 2014.
just before Christmas 2014.
A home improvement project:
More working from a ladder this week for Mr. P. as he replaces two of the beams and some sheets of corrugated plastic that forms the roof of the covered way. The original roof which he had constructed a few years ago was beginning to leak where the roof joins the garage gutter. All this had to be done quickly in case it began to rain. Thankfully we've had a couple of dry days. The next job was to clean and start repainting the woodwork.
My groups:
This week there were two meetings to attend at Sheffield Anglican Cathedral, one to plan future events and one just to socialise. I miss our church fellowship groups when we're away and also the study groups I go to and I'm glad to get back to them. A new monthly group for those who enjoy reading has been formed at our local library which had the first meeting whilst we were in Italy and I'm thinking of joining it.
The photography day course in March was a good one. We were given advice on techniques to produce more interesting images before going out into the city streets to take photos that we shared with the group on our return to the library. (Below) were some of the photos I took in the area around the Winter Garden and in the library. They show the sort of images that we were asked to take after being given three specific assignments that demonstrated what we had learnt.
Reading:
I found this interesting book in a charity shop for less than £1. It's a collaboration between Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman and credit must go to the photographer Rob Talbot whose superb photographs enhance the book. There are chapters on the character of Brother Cadfael and his companions in the monastery, his role in the monastery as a herbalist and Benedictine monasticism. Other chapters describe the background history and locations in which the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael are set with extracts from many of the books in the series.
I found this interesting book in a charity shop for less than £1. It's a collaboration between Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman and credit must go to the photographer Rob Talbot whose superb photographs enhance the book. There are chapters on the character of Brother Cadfael and his companions in the monastery, his role in the monastery as a herbalist and Benedictine monasticism. Other chapters describe the background history and locations in which the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael are set with extracts from many of the books in the series.
My mother also enjoyed Ellis Peter's books especially the Brother Cadfael series and I've inherited her collection and also have some of my own. I've read most of the earlier books in the series, but intended to start again to remind myself of the times in which they are set. The books cover the period 1137 to 1145. I haven't got far with my reading plan. For the moment I shall probably reread the companion book A Rare Benedictine, a slim volume of 150 pages, "introducing the mediaeval sleuth" which gives an account of Cadfael's life before he entered the monastery at Shrewsbury.
