Photo diary: week 15, project 365

 Easter holidays seemed longer than usual, but it's back to school today. The morning passed in a blur, nobody was enthusiastic about getting up earlier. Sash was quite excited, as he missed his school, and he kept showing me pictures and PECs of school - his way of asking when he would be going back.

Looking back at the week, we didn't do much. We finished watching all four Hunger Games films, which I absolutely loved, and will be happy to watch again in the future. For some reason it resonated with me. We even started reading the first book together. 

I posted several book reviews, including for The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, which I found fascinating and beautifully written. It is a ghsot story, set in Cornwall, but it's also much more than that. It's an exploration of grief, and mental anguish. 

Our friends invited us for an hour of tennis at the Leys. I wasn't sure if we would be able to go, as we woke up to a layer of snow on the ground. Not exactly a tennis weather.

We walked to the tennis courts past the church: the daffodils were poking out like yellow rebels from the snow. I didn't realise my iphone touched the drops on the flowers, so the snap appears slightly ghostly, with the flower's stem almost invisible and the flower "floating" in the air.

An hour later it got so hot at the courts, that we had to take off the coats. Utterly crazy weather. On the way home we visited the book shop, where we bought Hunger Games book 1. This was the first and only non-food shop we've visited in a while. 

Eddie spent quite a lot of time, playing in the garden. He loves climbing on the apple tree. This is a snap taken by my husband. 

The red car in the background is an old bed which we bought for Eddie several years ago. It was the worst purchase of my life. He hated it so much, he probably slept only one night through in it. It is made of hard plastic, and when he moved around, it made loud banging noises, and was also super uncomfortable. It's been in the shed for some time, and I am thinking of turning it into a bedding frame for flowers.

This week has seen a caterpillar cake war on social media. M&S is claiming Colin the Caterpillar cake and suing Aldi for the copyright. Except that all the other supermarkets have the same style cakes. Every single store. There are some amusing tweets on the topic.

On Friday Eddie had a friend over for a day. And again, it was one of the firsts in a long while. I didn't mean them to spend just so many hours together, but they had so much fun.

On Saturday the Brits said Farewell to the Duke of Edinburgh. We didn't watch the whole ceremony, as we were out, and only caught the very end. We did observe the minute of silence at 3pm. 

I've read that thousands of people lodged complaints to the BBC about the non-stop coverage of the Duke's life on the day when his death was announced. Could they not have found a different channel among hundreds? With so many good causes to fight for they choose this occasion to complain? 

I'm not a Royalist at all, but reading about these complaints truly irked me. Where is the so called national tolerance? "...send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee".

And how was your week?

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