It has been a wonderfully busy few weeks. It is becoming
apparent that having lots of lovely things to blog about also means that there
is much less time free to do the blogging. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been
thinking about blogging, in fact I would go so far as to say I have been
missing it. I think in part, my self-imposed minimum word count has been
rankling a little. I longed to check in with a few lines, but couldn’t quite
fit in a full seven hundred words. However, I am here now and very happy about
it.
So what has been keeping me so busy? Many things, the
majority of which will feature in their own blog posts in the coming days (or,
more realistically, weeks). But let’s do a brief run down, to provide an aide
memoire for me, and to tempt you back for future posts. There was a lovely
sunny weekend, involving baking, family gatherings, best friends, the Wimbledon
final, fish and chips in the garden, late night drinks and trivial pursuit. It
seems a world away now. It one of those lovely weekends that happens rarely,
busy, but somehow in a relaxed, reinvigorating way.
It was our first wedding anniversary the following weekend,
and we rented a cottage in the Cotswolds. It was a lovely trip, and felt like a
real holiday. The weather stayed wonderful, and we enjoyed picnics, badminton, and
mini golf. We also had some fabulous meals, and a theatre trip. We did a mad
dash home on the Sunday night, which was our anniversary. We actually had
another night booked in the cottage, but knew we had a lot to do on the Monday,
and decided we would have a midnight flit (well, nine thirty) and we got home
just in time to toast our 365th day as Mr and Mrs in our own home. It is hard to believe we have been married a year. In some
ways the wedding feels like years ago, so much has happened since. In other
ways it feels like we spent so long planning the wedding, that its still
difficult to realise it is all over. We couldn’t believe how many other people
remembered, we are very lucky to have so many thoughtful friends and family.
Since we got back, work has been taking priority. I found
out that I had passed all the exams for my degree, which is brilliant news, but
also shifts the focus onto completing the dissertation as well as I can. The
dissertation is involving some pretty intensive bouts of computer-time, which
is possibly another reason the blogging hit a hiatus. I still maintain I am not
really a hot weather person, but it feels scandalous to sit staring at a screen
all day and all night when the sun is shining, so we have been trying to get
out, even for a quick walk, each evening.
We have lots more lovely plans coming up to break up the
next few weeks, which otherwise will consist almost entirely of hammering out
this dissertation. As soon as it is handed in we have managed to book two weeks
off together, and so I’m hoping a last minute break somewhere sunny will
present itself.
This feels like a bit of a rambly post, with nothing much to
say, but I felt that a little wittering was necessary before I launched
straight into a recipe or a restaurant post. Just to practice my writing again,
more than anything. So many lovely blogs are out there, it is difficult not to
come to write and give up, feeling like an amateur in comparison. There have
been a few half-written and subsequently deleted posts in recent weeks,
succumbing as I do to self-criticism.
However there have been so many things to be grateful for,
so many happy occasions in recent weeks, I want to take time to write about
them. Now I have this space to record things, I should overcome my fear of
failure, and recognise what pleasure there is in documenting daily joys,
however small, and enjoy the creativity blogging brings. So there will
definitely be more posts soon.
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