Small Things.

A little bit cloudier today and windy. Perfect drying weather which I took advantage of. But with the wind no longer coming from the east it was considerably warmer.

This morning their plunge diving alerted me to the arrival of common terns to the bay. Their presence was a sign that fish are about so hopefully we may see the dolphins soon.

Small things in nature give me great pleasure but unfortunately small things can also be very upsetting. I found out today that the two people I was supposed to meet up with yesterday had instead had the meeting at the pub half an hour later. Is it naïve of me to expect people to turn up at a prearranged meeting? Maybe it's the fact that I  don't have a phone attached to my hand at all times (almost never in my case) which puts me at odds with a generation that sees making last minute changes as perfectly normal. Because of the way I am the incident has continued to play on my mind all day even though the logical side of my mind sees that it wasn't that important.

All that came after Peter and I had been discussing our holiday plans. Apologies for the following major moan but I feel the need to vent or I might explode. Feel free to comment or not  or skip the text and just look at the pretty photos from Sunday.

You might think that spending three weeks on Crete with a hire car would naturally lead to exploring the beautiful and interesting island but I'm afraid Peter is not keen on exploring places. He never has been and now that his arthritis limits his walking to 3 or 4 miles on a good day he would rather stay in one place. He's become extremely cautious about anywhere new so I'm having to research places thoroughly in order to answer his questions. I thought that visiting 3 archaeological sites and maybe 3 gorges and/or beaches over 3 weeks was a reasonable compromise but you wouldn't believe the emotional pressure I've been put under. I expect that in the end we'll do most things and he'll enjoy them but for the moment I'm being made to feel like a horrible person. At least I've found what looks to be a decent stables which do 2hr, 4hr and all day rides so I may be spending a lot of time out riding in the countryside.

Moan over. Just enjoy more signs of Spring.

After the stress of the morning I had a good day's gardening. The hacked back hedge has been squared off and all I need to do is wait for the leaves to grow. In the back garden the clematis have been growing wildly and needed fixing to the trellis before the wind snaps the shoots right off.

After that I had time to do my favourite job which is going over all the shingle picking off every scattered grass stem, loose leaf and any tiny seedlings. And this time picking off all the stray twigs from my hedge cutting. 

Later.- I've just returned from choir where we continued with the Georgian song we began last week. Polyphonic singing is very hard to learn but once we got the hang of it it had such a lovely rich tone. After that we learnt a Hawaiian song which had most of us swaying and waving our hands around before finishing off with a Lea Morris song - Everybody wants to sing.