Good morning Bank Holiday early birds and welcome to Monday with a difference! Wishing you peaceful, happy times

It’s a sunny Sunday in Springtime and the headlines (‘Tories reeling’) are, for once, a delight. Things are looking up! Have a beautiful day!

Today’s literary love affair begins!

I could lose myself in these pre- dawn ripples all day!

A perfect end of the week listen while you work today. 🎧

Episode 154 - An Exeter garden awakes (31 mins)

Early morning. April. The sun rises over the garden heavy with pink blossom and light with joyful birds. The city hums in the distance.

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Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows | Franz Kafka | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/article/…

Sometimes people ask if it’s worth lugging a suitcase of books when I travel. YES! I just finished another brilliant novel: #OrdinaryTime by Cathy Rentzenbrink & it’s been heaven! Funny, tender, sad, marriage, love, motherhood in shades of a 21st century #BarbaraPym . Perfection!

Husband is playing some sunny, breezy Brazilian music
Me: I love this! Is it old?
Him, shrugging: 1990s
Me: That’s old, darling!
Him: One man’s old is another’s a week last Wednesday!
As ever, he’s not wrong! 😂

Observing UK news from my holidays has, for the past decade and more, proved so disheartening, depressing and occasionally embarrassing, it’s good to wake up this morning, read the headlines and sense that real change may be in the offing
Here’s to kinder times

Not yet dawn and everything’s looking like a prog rock album sleeve

Finishing an absorbing novel you loved while on hols-miles away from your TBR pile-can be tricky, but, luckily, I packed extraordinarily well!
Today I start Cathy Rentzenbrink longed-for new novel #OrdinaryTime , which I somehow managed to squirrel away for max bliss on hols!

I’m using a solar powered battery thingy to charge my mobile & feeling like some kind of NASA operative! This tweet is powered by a star!
Not so #SimplePleasures when you think about it. I may be a twit, but I’m a happy one 😂

Happy 1st May! Welcome to the best of months!

Here's one of our favourite episodes recorded last May.

Episode 171 - Sunrise birds in sea washed air (33 mins)

5am. The birds are in full song with a backdrop of the distant sound of the sea.

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Morning 🌦,  greetings from little robin on the 1st of May. Hope this month will bring a lot more sunshine, colours & good news X

The dawn chorus, Nigerian dwarf goat style.

Dawn reflections

May already and things are finally shaping up beautifully! Wishing you the best of all possible days

Such a loss #RIP #Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

I’m a bit of a, um, floozy when it comes to books! One minute I’m in love with this one, then another one grabs my heart & yet another proves irresistible!
My current object of adoration: the wonderful & evocative family saga #TheWildflowers Harriet Evans moonlighting #DisforDeath which I can’t put down

Liz English.
Her bio says she’s mad about colour having travelled between Italy Kuwait and the UK
I think this is fabulous.
‘Walk through a Wildflower Meadow’
Back after lunch. Helen🌻🌷🐝