It all seems very quiet here at present, January is that sort of month.

My 5 this week …

1. This weekend our focus has been on updating the house. We ordered a new bed for our son yesterday, bought the paint for our bedroom and today we have been moving the furniture out to make it easier to paint. We also did some swapping around of furniture in the house, including our son’s room as we have to make a bit of extra room for the larger bed, so it’s been a physical day. We have 3 different projects in the next 3 weeks or so, a new dividing wall to help make our lounge cosier, a new bed and look in our son’s room and the refresh of our bedroom. We’ve gone bold in our bedroom colour choice, a teal called Proud Peacock. I feel we can do this in our room as we’ve not too much wall with a double aspect room and have neutral furnishings in the room. However I am very tempted to add a splash of fuchsia pink to bring the colour out.

2. Whilst in B&Q collecting the paint, I did treat myself to some new kitchen plants 🪴 We have 3 large windows in the kitchen all looking out to the garden and I wanted to bring some of that greenery into my kitchen. The plants are currently on my smallest window sill but I would like to add a little herb garden to the longer sills too. My sills are about 125 cms long so I reckon I could get a proper herb garden growing.

3. This week my daughter started her work experience placement with animals. Everyday we have had very cute photos sent on our family WhatsApp and it has been lovely to see her in her element. This image is the one I sent her as a good luck message and looks really like her.

4. My reading mthis week is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and it’s a wonderful book. I was so surprised by the story as although I’m not sure what I expected it wasn’t a story featuring computer games which are not my thing. The phrase don’t judge a book by its cover comes to mind as it has taken so long to read the book, despite so many recommendations, as the front cover put me off. I couldn’t work out the story from the cover. This is the beauty of a Kindle, you focus on the storyline and not the cover as you don’t really see it as you would a book lying around. This also does have its flaws, as often I forget the names and authors of books and is why I diligently record my reading on my Good Reads app.

5. This is the wolf moon on my Tuesday night walk. We had looked at the moons in class earlier in the day and I had asked my students to look out for it that night. I took a photo to share in class the next day. I liked the eeriness of the clouds and bare branches, as if it gives it a haunting feeling.