A quick five for Friday, things that have cheered and made me smile.
1. In the post
Tea - a delivery of loose leaf tea from the Loose Leaf Tea Company. there are both fruit teas and English Breakfast tea.
Flour - a delivery of bread flour from Shipton Mill. Still no self-raising flour to be had so we ordered three small sachets of baking powder and plain flour.
A beautiful card - It was a nice surprise to receive the wonderful handmade card above from a lovely blogging friend Simone at Linden Grove. How kind and thoughtful of her to send it. I smile every time I look at it. Thank you Simone
2. Stamps
On the envelope of the card was a lovely stamp with lines from a poem by John Clare. It's from a series of stamps featuring the Romantic poets. Poets like, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth. Here is a link to some of the others in the set.
I'm not a stamp collector but I do have a few sets of stamps that I've collected over many years. I might be tempted to add the Romantic Poets set to them.
3. Evening Visitors
Dog Fox
Male Badger
Vixen
Vixen
Ralph
4. Mass Observation
On Tuesday I took part in the Mass Observation Archive. I kept notes of all that happened that day and wrote a diary about the happenings and also about my thoughts and feelings about the virus and the lockdown and how it was affecting us.This year is the 10th Anniversary of the 12th May Diary Project. The Mass Observation Project was started in 1937 when people were asked to record everything they did for the whole day on the day of King George VI's Coronation.
5. Garden Birds
Male Blackbird - they sing so sweetly in the mornings and late afternoons.
Robin - I haven't seen any young ones as yet.
Great Tit - there seem to be a lot of them around this year, I love their distinct markings.
Well I said at the beginning of this post that it would be a quick five but it has taken a lot longer than I thought and is a lot longer than I expected.
