Photo diary: weeks 18 and 19, project 365

Last Sunday I spent in bed, with a high temperature, feeling sorry for myself. I was quite worried that I might have gotten the dreaded virus. Luckily, it had nothing to do with the virus, and all with an insect bite on my leg. I simply didn't put two and two together. I don't know what has actually bitten me, but reading descriptions of bites online after asking friends on Facebook, it most likely was the Blandford fly. I haven't heard of the Blandford fly before, my only association with the name is related to the Duke of Marlborough's family.
My leg got awfully swollen, red, hot to touch and extremely itchy. Plus, the bite caused my fever.

And now back to our two weeks of photos...

My husband and Eddie have gone on a long walk out of town, and discovered a new route which brings them back into town. They wanted to show it to me, and a few days later we did go together.
This photo was taken by my husband on their walk. It's pretty amazing how rural it looks just a short distance out of town.

Apple blossom in the garden, with the most delicate beautiful scent

Sasha came back home from school with a surprise treat for us all - they baked a sponge cake. We all enjoyed it (it was a tad too sweet for me, but my boys loved it). It was most kind of them to send us a lovely cake.

Eddie was super keen to show me the out of town route they discovered a few days earlier, and off we went to explore. It was a lovely walk.

After the rain in the night a lot of apple blossom petals fell on the lawn (or the remains of the lawn), covering it like a lacy shawl. Playing football and table tennis there has completely destroyed the grass.

Homeschooling continues, and there are new tasks added on Seesaw every day. One of the tasks from that week was to recreate The Big Wave by Hokusai. Eddie spent three days, working on his project, and I think he did a splendid job. I've already framed it.

Walking into town for grocery shopping, I saw these cloud shapes which reminded me of galloping horses.

I didn't take any photos on Sunday, as I was feeling awful, trying to lower my temperature. It stayed 38.7C for most of the day.
I was much better on Monday, out of bed, and starting to potter around, though I still felt a bit weak.
As often happens on Mondays, I cooked tofu in Teriyaki sauce, one of Eddie's favourite meals (and he's not even a vegetarian).

Bananas were going rather slimey-black, and I baked a banana carrot bread with walnuts. It was delicious. My guys love to drizzle a bit of honey on it.
A few weeks ago I bought a set of Spode Italian Blue mugs on BrandAlley. I love Spode, and have quite a collection, mostly mismatched, as I buy pieces I like in charity shops. Oh, charity shops, when will we be able to visit them again?!

Eddie and I were sitting by the window, waiting for Sasha to arrive from school, and taking selfies (as you do). I don't bother with make-up these days, well, I do slap on the lipstick and foundation when I go out shopping.

Eddie and I love Astrid Lindgren's books. He has recently read the first book in the Pippi Longstocking series, and asked me to get more books for him. That's my happy boy, engrossed in the next instalment.

We peeked out of the door on Thursday when it was the clapping time. By the sound of it, people are losing enthusiasm. Or perhaps don't see the point of it, as it doesn't help the NHS.
I was chatting to a friend yesterday, whom I met on the way home from grocery shopping (we were at a distance). She works for the NHS, and said that though most people are friendly and lovely, her next door neighbour doesn't want to say Hello, and avoids looking at her, when people do the weekly clap.

Another task we found on Seesaw was to read a few pages from Tom's midnight garden, and take some photos, pretending to be Tom. Here is Eddie as Tom, bored to stay at his aunt and uncle's house indoors, waiting to find out whether he got measles like his younger brother.

We didn't do anything special for VE day on Friday. I baked brownies and we had tea in the garden. We also talked with Eddie about the war, and solved the Morse code tasks on Seesaw, which was quite fun.
Our teddy bear shop is closed, but they still decorated the window displays to mark the VE day.

My husband kept asking me to do his haircut. I did my best, honestly. Eddie looked and asked if I had a grudge against him. My dear husband looks like Blackadder (season 1). Well, he should have known better than asking me, hasn't he seen our children's haircuts?!

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