Thursday 6th March 2025

And so, for a few days at least, back to work.

I am working from home these last 12 days, and things are soon back to normal, with me sleeping through the alarm, Jools making coffee and jabbing Scully and so on and on.

Suddenly it's very Spring.

More light.

More colour.

More birds singing, though no butterflies here yet.

But it is a cold start, but I try to kid myself its warmer than it actually was, in the end I put the heating on at lunchtime.

Work is a series of trying up lose ends. Mainly so that my colleague doesn't have to deal with them.

But I can only move a mountain of resistance so far.

In the garden, there is some colour. A few crocus are out, and hyacinths are now in flower, a daffodil is about three days from opening, but that's really it. But also in a tub, the hair stems of Pasqueflowers are showing well, and will be blooming in a week or two.

I go out with the camera, mainly of flowers, obviously.

But then there is Jools's new camera.

She bought herself a new one last week, but wasn't high spec enough, so I ordered her a Nikon that as a lens with a maximum focal length of 2,000mm.

Yes, you read that right.

So, I spent a quarter of an hour snapping birds in the sun on the feeders.

I have lots of fruit through the day, just to make up for my poor diet when away, and no time for crap TV in the afternoon as I had meetings.

And then the day ended. I packed the office away and began preparing dinner, which was mainly defrosting stuff from the freezer, and making spicy rice with dried fruits.

It will be light enough to walk before dinner soon, but then again we can have dinner at lunchtime and walk before and after it soon enough.

So it goes, so it goes.

Night falls, but not so cold as previous nights, so we can sleep with the window open, meaning I get fresh air unlike for the seven nights in the hotel in Aarhus.

Early evening there was Man Utd on the radio, and then we got all tired and went to bed shortly after eight for ten more hours of kip.