Photo diary: week 14, project 365

 The weather can't decide, what it's going to be. On Easter Sunday we had sunshine before lunch, and snowflakes melting mid-air in the afternoon. I had to cover up the potted tulips, as I was worried they might not endure the frost well, then uncover, then cover again. It was as if the weather was playing silly games with us.

I cooked most of the Easter lunch apart from the dessert, which was a winter berries meringue wreath from M&S. It was tasty but a pain to slice, even after it was completely defrosted, so after I took the pretty photo and started to cut, the cake was a big mess of broken meringues, cream and berries. Though nobody complained. 

On Monday morning we had a long walk around town, catching Pokemons. I saw this funny-shaped cloud, and thought it looked like an angry bear trying to swallow the small cloud.

I've been feeling stressed recently, and when I am, I turn to retail therapy and buy books. Whenever I read an interesting review, either online or in the newspaper, I add the books to my TBR list, and regularly go through it, checking if the price has gone down. Truly bad habit. This is the stash I bought in the last few weeks.

I follow quite a few authors seen below on Twitter, like Robin Morgan-Bentley, Matt Haig, Maisie Thomas, Amanda James etc. 

I started reading Sisters by Daisy Johnson. It had great reviews which must have influenced my choice. I'm half-way through, and so far not impressed. The author tries very hard to be edgy-intellectual. The style of writing is convoluted, and there are big passages with hardly any punctuation. I want to finish it, and hope my first impressions are wrong. Have you read Sisters?

More cloud shapes - this one made me think of an angel flying horizontally over the trees, with his beautifully shaped wing.

The sight of chickens roaming around always makes me think of my grandma who kept chickens. She lived at the end of the village, with the forest blending into the garden, and steppes all around. 

This lovely view is of the Cogges Manor Farm. We didn't venture inside the compound, as the air was nippy. Hopefully once the weather makes up its mind and gets warm properly, we can visit Cogges and look at the beautiful garden.

After the Mother's day was over, our local Waitrose had lots of potted plants at reduced price. I bought a pot with white hyacinths. They are in full bloom now, and the scent is so delicate and beautiful. The hyacinths in the garden are almost all wilted now, and I'm still waiting for the pricey tulips from the garden centre to start to bloom. 

I have quite a lot of red tulips along the garden path, which grow "in the wild", i.e. I never feed them or do anything, they just reappear every year, strong and intensely red.

My Mum was looking through her boxes of old photos, and have dug out this picture of me, when I was in my early 20s. She asked my brother to scan it and send to me. I think I was in my 1980s modern romantics' stage, wearing floaty long dresses and lacy tops. I loved that vintage top, it belonged to a friend of my Mum's who's found it in her closet from her younger days. It was knitted from white cotton thread, and I have added tiny little pearly beads along the edges. 

When I look at the photo now, I think I was very pretty, but I was so insecure about my appearance.  And gosh, my head was so full of romantic nonsense. It didn't help that the boy I fancied didn't even notice me. I wish I could tell my younger self not to fret, and that the boy I was pining for, was just not right for me. 

On a different topic, we watched Hunger Games (first two films) for two evenings in a row. I didn't expect that I would be so involved emotionally. 

And how was your week?

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