Teasing

March sunshine teasing us. A third consecutive damp summer?

Lindt milk chocolate: sunshine for the taste buds?

Web board papers. A waste of time?

Pain

It’s said pain is strongest of sense memories. This pain is beyond memory. Sharp and intense: a long steel poker deep into the skin.

Time heals

Fresh air and medication help the healing process. Discomfort remains. So, time has to complete the mend.

Grapevine: our village shop closes 27 March.

Digest

Body bits are letting me down. Might be time for an exclusion diet. Otherwise, my life continues to revolve around an overactive digestive tract.

High finance

Booked: Lake District walking in September, where one day can see four seasons.

Bought: chariot insurance, transport to the lakes.

Decided: £7000 chimney repairs.

White blanket

Woke to a white blanket.

Day off: gardening not possible; installed smoke alarms after hour search for drill chuck key.

Jacko? This isn’t it.

Boring bus post

Littleham resident: your Comet delivery blocked my bus this morning.

Free ride this evening: bus driver couldn’t log in. Bus driver: ctrl, alt, delete!

Treacle tart

Energetic office colleagues this weekend: half-marathon for one, a bunch walked 16 miles in the dark. Digging and weeding aside, I ate treacle tart.

David Bentley ruined my life.

“David Bentley ruined my life.”

Allotment: a year of digging ; broad beans poking up; more aches and pains.

Tunes: Mussourgsy’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’.

Hitching for charity

Young Ali is hitch hiking for charity.

Saturday morning means the smell of cleaning products as the kitchen gets a buff and a brush.